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

Richard tea wrote: »

I'm a sucker for believing in the hype from fighters and their coaching team. As far as I was concerned conor will be dancing around for 5 rounds peppering Diaz. I only noticed a small increase in his cardio compared to the last fight. I see conor been capable for 3 rounds. Can he increase that to 4 or 5 rounds? And if so what type of time frame?

Also does fighting at 155 or 145 automatically increase his gas tank? Is that how it works?

He gassed in pretty much one round last time. This time he lasted for five rounds.

I don't know why I like McGregor, he's loud, brash and can be a bit of an ass, but I just can't help but like the man, I guess there is an underlying charisma there, and a lot of the "noise" is nothing more than playing the promotion/hype game. So I'm very happy for him to have come through this.

All along I had wondered how will he respond to that first UFC defeat which was always going to happen. (I'm just glad it didn't come at the hands of Aldo, I never had anything against Aldo until after he lost to CMcG, since then he has been far from classy in any of his comments when it comes to McG, particularly when he was revelling in McGregor's 196 defeat)

People say Diaz kicked his ass the last day, what a load of nonsense. He gave Diaz a battering, but he massively underestimated him, he kept going for that photo finish but Diaz, despite having his face cut to pieces took it in a way no opponent McGregor has faced ever has. Diaz suckered him, he lost his composure and Diaz went in for the kill. An ass kicking that was not, but Diaz one million percent deserved that win.

Have a wee look at wikipedia. (Sorry guys, casual blow-in fan alert ) Diaz's win loss score is now 19-11. 11 defeats seems a little high, but look a little closer at the 10 defeats up to tonight; one loss by submission, one by TKO, and 8 (now 9) by decision, so in almost all of his defeats he went right to the death. In 30 fights he has only been stopped twice, even to someone like myself who had not heard of the guy up until about a year ago, it's obvious that this guy is a warrior. And Conor probably knew that going into 196 but knowing it is one thing, experiencing it is a whole new ball game.

McGregor was never going to knock this guy out. But he did learn from the last day, he knew not to go to ground with Nate, he just told him to get up each time he knocked him down, and I think he defended really well in that respect throughout the fight, when Nate did finally get him down it was far too late.

If he is going to make it at LW then that first defeat to Diaz was probably the best thing that could have happened him, his left hand will probably knock out any opponent at 145, not necessarily the case at 155, it's still a powerful tool in his arsenal at 155 but they're going to be a little better able to take it in that division. And hopefully now he's learned that weight divisions exist for a reason, this talk of going for the welterweight belt after he defeated Aldo was bordering on the ridiculous, he'd get eaten alive by the best in that division, he's too small. But he'd be a nice addition to the LW category, hopefully that division will be his primary focus after the Aldo fight, and he'll be all the more ready for it now thanks to Diaz.

Sh1t is about the hit the fan!

I've a feeling it could be a long wait till we see Conor in the Octagon again. There is trouble brewing between him and Dana/UFC. It bubbled up for UFC 200 and you could sense the tension with how the press conference went, hell Conor has tension even with the UFC Commentator/Employee Joe Rogan.

The UFC are going to make Conor fight Aldo next or he loses the belt. Conor has 0 interest in that fight and arguably rightfully so. The UFC will have no choice but to strip Conor of his belt as if they don't, it will be seen as a major slap in the face to the other UFC fighters and pure Conor favoritism. Depending on how badly Conor takes the stripping of the belt could indicate how badly the rift will last.

Conor has no interest in the Aldo fight as he doesn't think its as big PPV seller as McGregor Diaz III or McGregor Alvarez or even McGregor GSP. Conor is looking towards a bigger more ambitious version of MMA fighting, while the UFC is trying to maintain order and from their perspective rightfully so as whats made UFC a rising product and boxing a failing product is proper structure to the fighting game. Conor has become bigger and transcended the UFC's rigid structure of belts and divisions to the superfights and the big PPV paydays. Conor has ambitions that are bigger than what he is allowed to do in the UFC they need to maintain the order or the UFC falls apart, this is where the tension lies.

The UFC needs Conor, he is by far the biggest draw they have and imo has surpassed Rhonda. No other card compares to a Conor card, UFC200 was a disaster without Conor. But on the flip side, Conor needs to the UFC too, as the UFC has all the top fighters and so Conor can't have superfights without the UFC's fighters. That leaves Conor with only 2 options, WWE cameo, Boxing Cameo. He's been flirting with both constantly in the last 12 months. So i think if the rift is bad enough after they strip his belt, then he'll definitely take a break form the UFC for a year, do a WWE cameo or a boxing fight and then wait for the UFC to beg for him to come back.

IMO it would be smart for the UFC to play ball with Conor, tell him if he fights Aldo near the end of the year for the belt, they will promise him the Croke Park fight he's always wanted...I think it will be an interesting couple of weeks ahead for the future of Conor and the UFC.

If he went to the wwe I'd just lose all respect.

SteM wrote: »

He's under contract with the ufc. How could he just leave the ufc for a year to go to wrestling or boxing?

Maybe not boxing but surely he can go to the WWE as its not a fight promotion or does he need permission from the UFC? Did Rhonda need permission?

Conor has been talking a lot of sh1t at the WWE for awhile now for no good reason, seems a little bit of a setup to me. Mayweather made $20m from his WWE appearance, i don't think its too far-fetched to think he could be setting himself up for an easy payday.

$3m for a 5 round brawl with Nate Diaz or $3m to talk sh1t and fake fight in the WWE?

Easy Rod wrote: »

Eh? It's just like saying if he acted in a movie you'd lose all respect?

I think it would further the narrative that the wwe and the UFC are the same thing.