McGregor explained why he thinks he could have won if the fight wasn't stopped

Last night, in the Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather fight, McGregor looked out of gas by the time the fight was stopped.

While many, including Conor himself, feel that the referee should have let him drop first, the majority is definitely of the opinion that the fight was stopped at an appropriate time and McGregor was on his last leg of the fight. If that is the case, the referee did McGregor a favour, but the UFC champion feels differently.

While he did feel that the referee did a good job in the fight, he still felt it was stopped early – in an interview with Fox’s Megan Olivi, he gave a little more detail into why he thought that way.

“Yea that’s what I’m saying, like if I got through that 10^th round, I think then he has to deal with his energy. Do you know what I mean? If you think of the Diaz 2, I had that little wobbly stage, but then he blew his muck. Then, round 4 was mine and the fight was mine. Do you know what I mean? You come through.

So, if I’d have gotten to that corner and got my composure, I’m thinking he’s had to throw a lot of shots and I’m still here. Now, it’s him that has to deal with his energy. So, that’s why I was a bit upset that it got stopped like that – let me go to meet it, unless I go down.

Do you know what I mean? He’s not a powerful puncher. He’s composed but he’s not powerful, so that shouldn’t have been stopped I don’t think.”

Here’s the full interview with this quote starting around the 4:11 mark.

While McGregor looked seriously fatigued in this boxing match, he does have a point about his fight with Nate Diaz. If you watch the video below, at about the 8:30 mark in the video, McGregor looks like he’s done for (Similar looking level of fatigue) after Diaz weathered his attacks early. Then, in the fourth round, McGregor has a second wind and ends up winning the fight.

This is one of this legendary sports moment that will be forever dissected through history, as there is a lot of what ifs left after the fight, and Mayweather made it clear that he has no intention of ever fighting again.