UFC 196: McGregor v Diaz

NFH

Who's gonna win and how?

Subcomandante Marcos

Diaz, mounted triangle, 3rd round.

BOHtox

McGregor by KO. Done inside of 2

xtal191

Easy night for Conor

ASOT

Mcgregor by points.

VisibleGorilla

Hope Diaz but it will be McGregor.

Diaz will get hit too many times to not go down from the left.

Paully D

McGregor via KO.

A good matchup stylistically for Conor as Diaz will stand and trade but is a level below McGregor technique-wise.

Diddley Squat

Dont know much about UFC , but watched Nate Diaz yesterday in press conf and then watched him fight a guy called rory mc donald on youtube.
Fporgive my ignorance , but this diaz guy sounds like he got an IQ of 40 and fights so slow with so many holes in his style.

Is this supposed to be a close match ?
I guess the weight makes a big difference but very unusual to see somebody jump up 2 or 3 weights like that ............
Best of luck to mc Gregor and I really hope he is a clean athlete.

Watched mc gregor fights before and he looked almost unrecognizable in the weigh ins. will be keen to see what he looks like come fight time

John_D80

I'm waiting for the official thread (by PaullyD, complete with Picture and viewing details) before I vote. Just doesn't feel right otherwise!! :-)

StringerBell

McGregor KO Round 2 at the latest, I think it could come near the end of round 1

Paully D

John_D80 wrote: »

I'm waiting for the official thread (by PaullyD, complete with Picture and viewing details) before I vote. Just doesn't feel right otherwise!! :-)

Couldn't risk another injury with me creating the thread! :pac:

scudzilla

Is this a 3 rounder? Normally Mains are 5 but as it's a short notice fight for Nate i reckon it'll be a 3

Elemonator

Participated in contact martial arts for a few years so I think I am qualified to offer an opinion. I think McGregor will win. Everyone tries to predict where he will be, but the thing is, he is unpredictable. When he talks of creating dead space, it is true. Having said that now, watching the pre-fight interviews, Diaz is better with the mind games than Connor's previous opponents. He claimed McGregor was on steroids and Connor didn't take too nicely to that statement. Nonetheless, my money is on Connor. Easy win for him. I know a professional cage fighter who is now retired and he agrees with me.

Just my 2c.

Swashbuckler

John_D80 wrote: »

I'm waiting for the official thread (by PaullyD, complete with Picture and viewing details) before I vote. Just doesn't feel right otherwise!! :-)

This! I refuse to vote......Cmon Paully.

Hazys

scudzilla wrote: »

Is this a 3 rounder? Normally Mains are 5 but as it's a short notice fight for Nate i reckon it'll be a 3

Its the headlining fight of the night so it's a 5 rounder...no way it lasts that long tho

scudzilla

Hazys wrote: »

Its the headlining fight of the night so it's a 5 rounder...no way it lasts that long tho

i know that, but headlining fights have been 3 rounds when it's a short notice replacement

Hazys

scudzilla wrote: »

i know that, but headlining fights have been 3 rounds when it's a short notice replacement

Didn't know there was headliners that went only 3 rounds, when was that?

Whether right or wrong, by having a 3 bout round for a short notice replacement, you are admitting that the quality of opponent and fight is not as good.

John_D80

Hazys wrote: »

Didn't know there was headliners that went only 3 rounds, when was that?.

Most recent instance of this was Paddy Holohan vs Louis Smolka if memory serves correctly. Last minute bump up to main event, both fighters agreed to keep the contest at 3 rounds.

Paully D

Hazys wrote: »

Didn't know there was headliners that went only 3 rounds, when was that?
.

Holohan v Smolka in Dublin jumps out at me.

John_D80

Paully D wrote: »

Couldn't risk another injury with me creating the thread! :pac:

Swashbuckler wrote: »

This! I refuse to vote......Cmon Paully.

Mods really need to step in here to be fair!! Nobody does event threads like Paully D.

:P

John_D80

John_D80 wrote: »

Most recent instance of this was Paddy Holohan vs Louis Smolka if memory serves correctly. Last minute bump up to main event, both fighters agreed to keep the contest at 3 rounds.

Paully D wrote: »

Holohan v Smolka in Dublin jumps out at me.

Great minds etc etc .........

StringerBell

Elemonator wrote: »

Participated in contact martial arts for a few years so I think I am qualified to offer an opinion. I think McGregor will win. Everyone tries to predict where he will be, but the thing is, he is unpredictable. When he talks of creating dead space, it is true. Having said that now, watching the pre-fight interviews, Diaz is better with the mind games than Connor's previous opponents. He claimed McGregor was on steroids and Connor didn't take too nicely to that statement. Nonetheless, my money is on Connor. Easy win for him. I know a professional cage fighter who is now retired and he agrees with me.

Just my 2c.

I genuinely don't know if this is a spoof post, or a genuine post!

Either way, well played sir!

dave1982

Diaz by sub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxTmr5xSfmA

JJayoo

For me Diaz just isn't an aggressive submission guy, he isn't gonna go after McG looking for a takedown.

Really think this is gonna be a 'highlight reel' fight for McG

Axwell

State of this thread, spoiled by Paully's threads and opening posts lately..have come to expect better than this poor mans thread.

Conor 1st Round KO, think Diaz will try showboat and do a bit of head weaving and get smacked.

ardinn

McGregor - round 2 me thinks - My biggest question is whether or not I should stay up for it!

Whelo79

PaullyD, give the people what they want!

NFH

Dear Moderators, please delete this thread and allow PaullyD to do things properly. I had no idea who's toes I was stepping on!

P.S. I would have expected a poll thread to be up right after the fight was announced

TherapyBoy

Paully! Paully! Paully!

Give the people what they want! Paully for Taoiseach!!

This is a tough one for me, I have always loved both Diaz brothers as fighters and were always my favourite fighters. Obviously Conor being Irish and also one of my favourite fighters as well, I just dont want to see either lose I am happy though to see Diaz finally get that good pay day.

In saying that I think Conor wins by TKO in the later rounds. Diaz has a good chin and it should last for a while, but I can't see his chin surviving 5 rounds with that left hook.

StringerBell

Has it been confirmed as a 5 round fight?

hefferboi

StringerBell wrote: »

Has it been confirmed as a 5 round fight?

Don't worry, it won't go past 2 rounds.

micks

hefferboi wrote: »

Don't worry, it won't go past 2 rounds.

very likely

but if it does it could be fun

StringerBell

hefferboi wrote: »

Don't worry, it won't go past 2 rounds.

I agree, but not exactly what I asked.

John_D80

StringerBell wrote: »

Has it been confirmed as a 5 round fight?

As far as I know yes, Diaz agreed to a 5-rounder as he was about two weeks out from competing in an Iron-Man event with Nick and he is in peak shape at the mo.

Devastator

John_D80 wrote: »

As far as I know yes, Diaz agreed to a 5-rounder as he was about two weeks out from competing in an Iron-Man event with Nick and he is in peak shape at the mo.

really? And there was Conor saying he was the fattest skinny man he'd ever seen and calling him soft around the body like he wasn't in shape :pac:

Swashbuckler

Devastator wrote: »

really? And there was Conor saying he was the fattest skinny man he'd ever seen and calling him soft around the body like he wasn't in shape :pac:

I think Conor was referring to how he looked for the RDA fight where he missed weight.

mulbot

McGregor win by K/O inside the first round-He's too quick,accurate and slippery for Diaz-that guy looks like he fights in slow motion

Devastator

Swashbuckler wrote: »

I think Conor was referring to how he looked for the RDA fight where he missed weight.

ohhhh think I was laughing that much during the presser I must have missed loads

Mellor

Nate to take a beating for three rounds and fight to be stopped by his corner or the doctor.

Swashbuckler

I think Conor will do to Nate what Josh Thomson did, only worse, and earlier. First round ko if Conor wants to.

Foxtrol

Anyone have a link to the long official promo for UFC 196 that aired last night during the fightpass event (the one with all the cursing)?

Can't seem to find it any of the usual spots!

Devastator

Don't know if this is the video you're on about foxtrol but heres a new promo out, lasts about 12mins

http://www.si.com/mma/video/2016/02/24/conor-mcgregor-unfiltered-dublin-ireland-ufc-196

TheTownie

Foxtrol wrote: »

Anyone have a link to the long official promo for UFC 196 that aired last night during the fightpass event (the one with all the cursing)?

Can't seem to find it any of the usual spots!

Here it is.

Backup link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZaIGOrzfs8

Zero-Cool

Embedded for this starting tomorrow. Looking more forward to the Diaz bits than Ido dancing with Conor.

Foxtrol

TheTownie wrote: »

Here it is.

Backup link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZaIGOrzfs8

That's the one, thanks!

I know it's not the general clean promos they produce but I'm not sure why they aren't putting it out there as it's probably better than most in-house ones seen. They've already taken down that youtube link!

kev1234

I'm looking at ways to watch the fight on Saturday. I don't have BT Sport unfortunately. Does UFC fight pass get all major UFC fight nights/pay per views? I'm considering signing up for it for 6 months if it gets me UFC197 and UFC200.

shrewdness

kev1234 wrote: »

I'm looking at ways to watch the fight on Saturday. I don't have BT Sport unfortunately. Does UFC fight pass get all major UFC fight nights/pay per views? I'm considering signing up for it for 6 months if it gets me UFC197 and UFC200.

Fightpass doesn't get you the PPVs but it will have all other UFC events. You can buy the PPVs on ufc.tv, 197 is there for €20 or €25 in HD.

kev1234

shrewdness wrote: »

Fightpass doesn't get you the PPVs but it will have all other UFC events. You can buy the PPVs on ufc.tv, 197 is there for €20 or €25 in HD.

Cool, thanks. I bought it in HD for the Mendes and Aldo fights but not sure if it's worth an extra fiver? I presume it's just the definition is a bit better and not the connection or anything like that.

dave1982

kev1234 wrote: »

Cool, thanks. I bought it in HD for the Mendes and Aldo fights but not sure if it's worth an extra fiver? I presume it's just the definition is a bit better and not the connection or anything like that.

You'd need a good connection to run it on Hd last thing you want is the buffing every few seconds

Eircom_Sucks

any idea of when the embedded's will be up ?