If legendary mixed martial arts trainer Pat Miletich was the one advising Conor McGregor on his upcoming boxing match with the undefeated Floyd Mayweather, he knows what he’d tell the UFC lightweight champion and neophyte pugilist: Exploit every last grey area in the rulebook.
“[If] I’m training a fighter who’s going into that fight? Cheat within the rules, the entire fight,” Miletich said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour.
MIletich, the UFC’s first-ever 170-pound champion, has been associated with mixed martial arts from the outset. He knows full well that if an MMA fighter wanders into another fighter’s speciality without similar experience, he’s going to need every break he can make for himself.