Official Conor McGregor thread (part 2). **Read warning in 1st post**

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Conor will lose..

He can't knock him out..

Course he can. The best shot Conor threw cut him pretty bad. One or two of those on his jaw/chin and he'll go down. Just like he did when hit with Josh Thomson's shin. People seem to be forgetting just how much power Conor has in his left. Just because he didn't utilize it well in March doesn't mean he won't come August.

he can't submit him

Au contraire. No fighter is above being submitted given the right set of circumstances.

Even golden boy Nate Diaz once tapped out faster than McGregor did in their fight.

and he has no chance on points

He gassed after a round and a half and had a full camp

McGregor has been in fights where he seemed to spend more energy over more rounds and didn't appear nearly as fatigued. Perhaps he is right and it was a combination of over-training and poor diet leading up to the fight but I think there is more to it than that and it is why he immediately wanted a rematch as he knew that it was something quite easily addressed or which would not be an issue at another juncture. An infection maybe, who knows, but either either way it was not the norm for Conor to gas out like that. Loading up on missed shots and attempted head kicks goes some way to accounting for it but I still feel there was something else going on there.

Diaz had two weeks notice,
Does anyone seriously think he will be able to match Diaz cardio this time ? if so you need your head checked,
Diaz never spared for the first fight so his timing was off this time he will be so much better prepared,
It won't be close

If you believe that you'll believe anything. Nate called out Conor from the octagon a few months before the fight and is on record as saying that UFC calls him everytime a fighter pulls out on McGregor and also made it very clear that he knew it was just a matter of time before they fought. You really believe that given all that, he didn't train to fight and instead went off and partied? Two weeks before the very fighter he called out was set to fight?? A fighter with which it was now common for their opponents to pull out close to fight date?? Come on, what the hell would the point of calling him out have been then.

Lets be honest: Nate chilled for a day or two and had a tequila. Sounds relaxing if anything. Certainly seems like less taxing fight prep than guzzling steaks for breakfast and over working muscles a week before a fight, that's for damn sure. Nate was in peak condition, or as close as makes no difference anyway. He was fight ready. This is also the guy that keeps saying every fighter should be prepared to fight on their worst day and also points out in interviews that he often "trains harder" when he is not preparing for a fight than when he is. Yet then out of the other side of his mouth he claims that Conor wouldn't have landed a blow had he had a full camp.

In any event, this crap about him being off on vacation partying needs to stop. It's absurd. Especially considering it's a Diaz, fighters who are renowned for always training and focusing on their diets. You'd swear the way people are going on that he was in some crack house, knee deep in veggie kebabs, surrounded by empty bottles of El Jimador when the phone rang and Dana asked him to put down the spliffs, Conor wants to fight you. Please. Either way, come August 20th, he's gonna get his ass kicked.

JinkyJackson wrote: »

Can't understand why he isn't sparing against Nates body type. Reach and distance is what caused him to over exert and miss alot

He is, he is bringing Conor Wallace to LA for camp.

rogieop wrote: »

He also started shouting at Nate coming out for the second that he could "go all f***ing day". Id a feeling he was done then, i mean thats fine aying that going into the 4th/5th round, but coming out of the first? You should be feeling relatively fresh!

I supose at that stage, he'd two battles on his hands. One standing in front of him, & the other, his brain screaming at his own body to stop. Perhaps shouting things like that were his way of trying to win the mind over matter battle, rather than being a message for Nate? Only he knows really.

By all accounts Chris smacked him around for fun for the majority of their sparring sessions. Not surprised Conor edited the footage to make him look better.