UFC 189 - McGregor v Mendes *READ MOD WARNING IN 1st POST*

martyos121

It's no wonder that injury was never made public knowledge, a bad knee is a giant bullseye to anyone with a bit of wrestling ability, let alone Chad Mendes.

Even if that knee is fully recovered now, you can bet your bottom dollar Aldo will be throwing the leg kick constantly and shooting for a takedown. A knee injury is usually for life, they can flare up anytime when put under pressure, hope he manages it well.

martyos121

BaZmO* wrote: »

The ref told Mendes to watch his fingers about two or three times at the end of Round 1, and even said, "Chad, this is your last warning"

The bell went and he seemed to lift him off McGregor and have a word.

What penalty would he have gotten if he continued doing it?

1 point deduction, next time would be a DQ.

Richy06

A point deduction, maybe two. Can't quite remember exactly from my Marc Goddard seminar on judging and reffing!

Richy06

These kinds of niggles are being carried by nearly all fighters, most of the time they just choose to keep quiet about it. He'll be ok, guys, don't worry! He'll have the best of care and he'll manage it just right, just like always.

dave1982

Some of the nastiest cuts in UFC

Louzan and Miller was an amazing fight

Mellor

Apologies if it's been asked a lot, I don't want to wade back into the shïtstorm over the last few days. Has anybody seen a good gif/clip of that guillotine escape?

we'llallhavetea

JokerD wrote: »

Some week, started off on the Tuesday night with the kick off party in the Hyde nightclub in the Bellagio. Place was mental, you could sense the money you were being surrounded by, my friend was paying $11 for a Bud light.

Wednesday was the open workouts, when McGregor entered the room he ran straight over to the fans and along the line touching hands, crowd were jumping over each other to get to him. After his media obligations he went down the line getting pictures etc and then came back up to get everyone. I got my picture taken with him. He was so nice, people were thanking him for the picture but he was like "no, thank you".
Wednesday night I met Ben Rothwell at the deli in the MGM with his wife. Had so much time for me, he actually offered to get a photograph without me even asking. I said it was great how he was getting the crowd going at the workout. Ben talked about how he'd love to get on the Dublin card maybe against Junior or someone else I can't remember and would the Irish cheer for him. I said if I get to ask Dana a question, I'll ask him can you fight on the card. After we left him, my mate tweeted Dana about Ben fighting in Dublin and Ben was favouriting the tweet. Pretty cool.

Thursday was the press conference, we got great seats near the front at the aisle. Got to meet and get pics taken with Faras and Faber, also another two guys that had no issue posing for photographs. Outside then I met Megan the UFC presenter and she was very nice also.
Thursday evening the surreal behaviour continued, we met Paige VanZant at the Wyclef concert in which we managed to get VIP tickets because we tweeted something for the concert. We went upstairs to a free bar overlooking the pool where Wyclef was doing his stuff. As the concert was going on, Paige arrived up, we were now dancing to Wyclef with Paige VanZant. Next minute, Anthony Pettis arrives in, I get the photo in which he was more than happy to do and he starts chatting to my mate about our dedication staying up watching UFC with the time difference.
We moved then to another UFC party and because we had our wristbands we were skipping the queue and getting free entry, two normal lads spending the night like celebs. Pettis walked in to the nightclub and gave me a tap on the stomach going past.

Friday was the weigh in, when the doors opened I legged it and managed to get the third row, I was right beside the McGregor family and team who all were so nice. It was great to see their reaction when the weigh in was taking place. Afterwards I got to meet and chat to Tom Egan and Artem who both also had a lot of time for people. Earlier that day I meet Bader and played Rumble on the playstation. Two very nice guys.

Saturday, I got my picture with Herb Dean as he was arriving, no problem for him. The fight itself was mayhem , I had to go back to the hotel afterwards to get changed as when McGregor won, beer was thrown up in the air and people just got soaked but who cares.
Headed to the McGregor after party, got friendly with a few heads who let us sit at their VIP table in which they paid $500 for. It was difficult to get to Conor here, I just seen him and Dana from a short distance .

On Sunday, Dana tweeted about free TUF tickets so I ran from my hotel to the MGM conference room, when I arrived the UFC rep was about to drive away in the car park and shouted over "you want tickets?" I managed to snake the last two. Going through the MGM, Conor's Mother stopped us to thank us for the support, a very nice lady who appreciated the efforts.

In fact that was a running theme throughout the week, I even had UFC employees thanking us for the our support.

Credit to the UFC for the Fight Week, made us mingle with people you might never get to see or chat to.

everyone else pricing flights?! :P

delighted for you man, what an unreal series of events! gah! i wanna go in january!!

stephenl15

JokerD wrote: »

Some week, started off on the Tuesday night with the kick off party in the Hyde nightclub in the Bellagio. Place was mental, you could sense the money you were being surrounded by, my friend was paying $11 for a Bud light.

Wednesday was the open workouts, when McGregor entered the room he ran straight over to the fans and along the line touching hands, crowd were jumping over each other to get to him. After his media obligations he went down the line getting pictures etc and then came back up to get everyone. I got my picture taken with him. He was so nice, people were thanking him for the picture but he was like "no, thank you".
Wednesday night I met Ben Rothwell at the deli in the MGM with his wife. Had so much time for me, he actually offered to get a photograph without me even asking. I said it was great how he was getting the crowd going at the workout. Ben talked about how he'd love to get on the Dublin card maybe against Junior or someone else I can't remember and would the Irish cheer for him. I said if I get to ask Dana a question, I'll ask him can you fight on the card. After we left him, my mate tweeted Dana about Ben fighting in Dublin and Ben was favouriting the tweet. Pretty cool.

Thursday was the press conference, we got great seats near the front at the aisle. Got to meet and get pics taken with Faras and Faber, also another two guys that had no issue posing for photographs. Outside then I met Megan the UFC presenter and she was very nice also.
Thursday evening the surreal behaviour continued, we met Paige VanZant at the Wyclef concert in which we managed to get VIP tickets because we tweeted something for the concert. We went upstairs to a free bar overlooking the pool where Wyclef was doing his stuff. As the concert was going on, Paige arrived up, we were now dancing to Wyclef with Paige VanZant. Next minute, Anthony Pettis arrives in, I get the photo in which he was more than happy to do and he starts chatting to my mate about our dedication staying up watching UFC with the time difference.
We moved then to another UFC party and because we had our wristbands we were skipping the queue and getting free entry, two normal lads spending the night like celebs. Pettis walked in to the nightclub and gave me a tap on the stomach going past.

Friday was the weigh in, when the doors opened I legged it and managed to get the third row, I was right beside the McGregor family and team who all were so nice. It was great to see their reaction when the weigh in was taking place. Afterwards I got to meet and chat to Tom Egan and Artem who both also had a lot of time for people. Earlier that day I meet Bader and played Rumble on the playstation. Two very nice guys.

Saturday, I got my picture with Herb Dean as he was arriving, no problem for him. The fight itself was mayhem , I had to go back to the hotel afterwards to get changed as when McGregor won, beer was thrown up in the air and people just got soaked but who cares.
Headed to the McGregor after party, got friendly with a few heads who let us sit at their VIP table in which they paid $500 for. It was difficult to get to Conor here, I just seen him and Dana from a short distance .

On Sunday, Dana tweeted about free TUF tickets so I ran from my hotel to the MGM conference room, when I arrived the UFC rep was about to drive away in the car park and shouted over "you want tickets?" I managed to snake the last two. Going through the MGM, Conor's Mother stopped us to thank us for the support, a very nice lady who appreciated the efforts.

In fact that was a running theme throughout the week, I even had UFC employees thanking us for the our support.

Credit to the UFC for the Fight Week, made us mingle with people you might never get to see or chat to.

Jealous doesn't even begin :P Fair play mate

JokerD

Thanks, just got lucky during the week. Forgot to add we meet two UFC editors that work on the montages who went out with us on the strip after running into us. Some interesting stories as one of them was involved on the world tour.

Really hope to return for the next fight. Everyone really seemed to be in awe of the support.

scudzilla

JokerD wrote: »

Thanks, just got lucky during the week. Forgot to add we meet two UFC editors that work on the montages who went out with us on the strip after running into us. Some interesting stories as one of them was involved on the world tour.

Really hope to return for the next fight. Everyone really seemed to be in awe of the support.

you do realise you're now obligated to tell us :D

.ak

martyos121 wrote: »

1 point deduction, next time would be a DQ.

Probably a noob question, but what's a DQ?

Professey Chin

.ak wrote: »

Probably a noob question, but what's a DQ?

Disqualification

.ak

Ah cheers.

Yeah at the time I thought he looked like he was playing silly buggers with his fingers, and then I remembered the Aldo fight... Seems a bit coincidental, but he seems to like keeping his fingers open around the face. It may be clever, because unlike other sports, if you gouge you can get away with a warning or two before it having an effect on the fight, whilst the other guy will be seriously disorientated straight away.

Saipanne

Article on Kavanaghs appearance on MMA Hour.

http://www.the42.ie/mcgregor-no-wrestling-knee-2217192-Jul2015/

but1er

Just watched it back for the first time and even more emotional then been in arena that night!


That moment to see an belt been put around a Irish man! Near to tears

Awesomeness

but1er wrote: »

Just watched it back for the first time and even more emotional then been in arena that night!


That moment to see an belt been put around a Irish man! Near to tears

Same here. I felt like I was seeing the celebrations for the first time as at the time we were jumping around and chatting to the lads next to us

Easy Rod

Mellor wrote: »

Apologies if it's been asked a lot, I don't want to wade back into the shïtstorm over the last few days. Has anybody seen a good gif/clip of that guillotine escape?

Can't post it while in work but JK tweeted/Facebooked a clip of him doing the exact same escape from a training vid from 2013 which was pretty cool.

slicus ricus

Easy Rod wrote: »

Can't post it while in work but JK tweeted/Facebooked a clip of him doing the exact same escape from a training vid from 2013 which was pretty cool.

Here's the link (don't know how to embed a facebook vid):
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=679399102160197

Pretty awesome stuff. Not many can keep up with JK on the mat!

Hazys

This thread is hilarious over on Sherdog (the rest of the forum is :rolleyes: tho)

http://forums.sherdog.com/forums/f2/shoop-chad-mendes-3029123/

Some of the best

Pulse8

Lads way back in the other locked thread someone did a screenshot of the arena layout from ticketmaster & put lines around it highlighting average ticket price for each section, dont suppose anyone has it handy?

bur

Watched the fight again, the ease in which Mendes just gave up is really bothering me.

CurryFlavoured

bur wrote: »

Watched the fight again, the ease in which Mendes just gave up is really bothering me.

First time I felt the same and actually feared a fix if I'm completely honest, but since ive realised its probably just a combination of having a short camp and taking some nice body shots.

LollipopJimmy

bur wrote: »

Watched the fight again, the ease in which Mendes just gave up is really bothering me.

He was just bollixed from putting everything into trying to finish the fight. I was thinking that too but did you ever go all out in the gym and get to a stage where you wouldn't give a hoot if you just dropped on the floor and died. He'd hit the wall

Professey Chin

bur wrote: »

Watched the fight again, the ease in which Mendes just gave up is really bothering me.

Yep. 9/10 clean hits in a row shouldnt put anyone down especially when theyre absolutely bolloxed :rolleyes:

JustTheOne

bur wrote: »

Watched the fight again, the ease in which Mendes just gave up is really bothering me.

It's been discussed.

If its bothering you so much then ufc isn't
for you.

DrPhilG

Pulse8 wrote: »

Lads way back in the other locked thread someone did a screenshot of the arena layout from ticketmaster & put lines around it highlighting average ticket price for each section, dont suppose anyone has it handy?

That was me. I'll add it again tomorrow when I'm in work.

DrPhilG

Just watching the main event recording now. Unreal. Getting shivers down my spine.

Hazys

All this talk about how tired Mendes was and nobody is talking about how tired Conor was. He looked exhausted. Maybe all the grappling on the ground tired both of them out and maybe the full training camp wasn't such an unfair advantage for McGregor that people have made it out to be. Most fights he barely breaks a sweat, even the Holloway fight which went 3 rounds he looked a lot fresher after.

4:23 “It feels like I fcuking earned it, that’s what it feels like”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybl3vFaUPLs

darced

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Davei141

He didn't have the energy to even keep his hands up after the guillotine attempt never mind eat the shots, his body wasn't able for anymore and saying he mentally quit and wanted out is beyond harsh.