Conor McGregor-Nate Diaz fight analysis from Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe is cringeworthy

Thanks to the upcoming showdown between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor there has been an increase in talking heads, who never pay attention to boxing and MMA, acting as though they’re authorities on both sports.

Which, as we all know, isn’t the case.

This couldn’t have been more apparent than during Wednesday’s episode of “Undisputed” with Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe. While opining on Mayweather’s breakdown of why he could lose to the UFC lightweight champion, Bayless and Sharpe began to discuss the first fight between McGregor and Nate Diaz.

And, well, it was a cringeworthy analysis/recap/whatever you want to call it to say the least.

Bayless: “Speaking of fighting a bigger man, a guy who outweighed him by – I’m going to guess – 40 pounds and had, what, 5 inches of reach on him and got him on the ground. It’s called wrestling – sumo style wrestling. And he just pinned him. He pinned him.”

Sharpe: “How did he get him on the ground? He put them things on him first to knock him down and then jumped him.”

Bayless: “He didn’t knock him down. He got a hold of him and dragged him down.”

Where do we even begin with all that was wrong with that?

• First of all, Diaz didn’t have 40 pounds on McGregor – that is just an absurd number.
• Diaz’s reach advantage was 2 inches, not five. Big difference.
• The fight went to the ground once McGregor shot for a takedown out of desperation, not with Diaz’s “sumo style wrestling” in any way, shape or form. Who even sumo wrestles in MMA?
• Diaz did not try to pin McGregor in any way shape or form, because this was an MMA fight not a wrestling match. He submitted him with a rear-naked choke.
• Diaz didn’t “put them things” on McGregor to knock him down nor did he try to jump him. What is this, a gang fight?
• Diaz did not get a hold of McGregor and drag him down because, again, it was McGregor who shot out of desperation once he realized he was in trouble.

Of the rematch won by McGregor, Bayless would go on to say “he punched (Diaz) into submission” in what we all know was a narrow majority decision.

I mean, did they even bother to watch either fight or at least a highlights package before going on the air?

At the risk of your head exploding, feel free to watch the exchange in the clip above.

McGregor (21-3 MMA, 9-1 UFC) and Mayweather (49-0 boxing) face off on Aug. 26 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in a pay-per-view event expected to be the most lucrative prize fight of all time.

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