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Originally Posted by Saul Good
You defend takedowns by not letting her get anywhere near close enough to grab him, and there isn't a human being in the planet who is better at doing that than Floyd Mayweather. His footwork is perfection. His timing is perfection. His accuracy is perfection.
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Mayweather does not avoid the clinch. He gets into a clinch all the time. This idea that he would figure out how to do what strikers have not been able to accomplish against a grappler ("not let them get anywhere close to them") is contradicted by years of actual fights by hundreds of fighters.
The only way it ever happens is if the striker nails their opponent 30 seconds in the first round before they have a chance to close, and I don't really count that because thats not really what you are describing.