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Official Conor McGregor thread (part 3) *Updated Warning in 1st Post Re:Boxing match
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Sweet Science wrote: »He should keep releasing good footage from his training as he was doing previously.
He wasn't though?
For a start, a lot of the footage from past 20 months was playing touch-butt with Ido and/or doing gymnastics on the beach or on the Olympic rings.
When they did release actual footage, it was nearly universally Conor looking bang-average and completely unrelated to the gameplan.
I'll give you a few examples:
0:45 seconds in, we see Conor sparring for Eddie Alvarez. In the released footage he throws a 360 Tornado kick and also fights in orthodox stance for part of it - we also see Artem tagging him easily. (In the fight itself, Conor didn't throw any spinning stuff).
In this footage sparring for Diaz 2, we see Conor at 4:27 throwing a question mark kick, followed by a spinning head kick. If you want to watch the whole thing you'll see Charlie Ward and him tearing the head off each other. (In the fight itself, he threw one spinning kick to the body and got screamed at to stick to gameplan).
In this footage of flow-sparring for Aldo, we see Conor attempting foot-sweeps and head kicks on Artem. (This one is kinda meaningless as he slept Aldo).
Look, if you want to just skip watching all of the above let me summarise it for you:
If you're pinning your hopes on him being embarrassed against Floyd, they should be pinned on the fact Floyd is amazing as opposed to pointing to Conor sparring as evidence.
Nobody in a million years would be convinced Conor is a good mixed martial artist (nevermind a boxer) if they were judging him from his sparring footage alone.0 -
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Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »That's Nick, not Nate.
Cheers, they look pretty similar with their faces smushed in!
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wonderfullife wrote: »He wasn't though?
For a start, a lot of the footage from past 20 months was playing touch-butt with Ido and/or doing gymnastics on the beach or on the Olympic rings.
When they did release actual footage, it was nearly universally Conor looking bang-average and completely unrelated to the gameplan.
I'll give you a few examples:
0:45 seconds in, we see Conor sparring for Eddie Alvarez. In the released footage he throws a 360 Tornado kick and also fights in orthodox stance for part of it - we also see Artem tagging him easily. (In the fight itself, Conor didn't throw any spinning stuff).
In this footage sparring for Diaz 2, we see Conor at 4:27 throwing a question mark kick, followed by a spinning head kick. If you want to watch the whole thing you'll see Charlie Ward and him tearing the head off each other. (In the fight itself, he threw one spinning kick to the body and got screamed at to stick to gameplan).
In this footage of flow-sparring for Aldo, we see Conor attempting foot-sweeps and head kicks on Artem. (This one is kinda meaningless as he slept Aldo).
Look, if you want to just skip watching all of the above let me summarise it for you:
If you're pinning your hopes on him being embarrassed against Floyd, they should be pinned on the fact Floyd is amazing as opposed to pointing to Conor sparring as evidence.
Nobody in a million years would be convinced Conor is a good mixed martial artist (nevermind a boxer) if they were judging him from his sparring footage alone.
He has been releasing photos of him making his sparring partners in this camp look stupid
And even still , you are comparing him doing stuff in camp that he didnt in a fight , completely different to what i was saying .0 -
After seeing Floyd's movement yesterday with that ball i'm reevaluating Conor's changes from 5% to 1%.I had hoped maybe he'd have slowed a little as at 41.
It's one thing doing it for 17 seconds and another thing doing it (potentially) for 18-36 minutes, so let's wait and see.
But you're right, signs are looking like Floyd is fit as a fiddle and super sharp even at 40! Some people are just freak athletes, it's sickening
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wonderfullife wrote: »It's one thing doing it for 17 seconds and another thing doing it (potentially) for 18-36 minutes, so let's wait and see.
But you're right, signs are looking like Floyd is fit as a fiddle and super sharp even at 40! Some people are just freak athletes, it's sickening
Yoel Romero is 40, looks very fit as well, all this ageism is needless.0 -
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