"I respect Nate," McGregor said. "Don't get me wrong, I do respect Nate. There are a lot of pussies in this game and he is not one of them. Don't get me wrong. There's a respect there between us, but it's business in there. And business is business. He will be KO'd inside the first round."
That was the same prediction McGregor made for dos Anjos at a press conference last month. He predicted he would knock out Aldo in the first round and did so. Pretty much all of his other prognostications came to fruition as well, including a second-round knockout of Chad Mendes and a first-round KO of Dustin Poirier.
"I feel his repetitive foot patterns and his poor motions are too readable, too predictable," McGregor said. "He'll be too slow in there. His speed will stifle him. His soft body and his lack of preparation, he will not be able to handle the ferocity."
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