Mean Laqueefa wrote: » its cool hoop i love ya, its just its used a fact all the time by people when we know its untrue. They are treated like employees when needed and when needed treated as contractors. Suppose they can do that when the only one they pay well is Conor or his oppenent, keep the cheedar for the lawsuits and buy some nfl teams
finglashoop wrote: » I was under the impression that they are enployees in all but the work title and employee benefits. Win win for ufc. Not good for fighters
Gamebred wrote: » https://twitter.com/Lowkingpl/status/798637541809266688 This double right hand was just awful was it not obvious to stop doing it after being dropped once or twice no? had to keep throwing it
HattrickNZ wrote: » someone said it better than me but it was something like conor wants to move from being rich to being wealthy, big difference.
Effects wrote: » I'd have thought wealth comes before riches?
finglashoop wrote: » Nope. You could be rich for a year ( lotto winner) wealth is **** you money
.ak wrote: » My favourite bit is watching the difference in leg work. Just watch them both from the waist down.
Gamebred wrote: » This double right hand was just awful was it not obvious to stop doing it after being dropped once or twice no? had to keep throwing it
wonderfullife wrote: » http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/taoiseach-enda-kenny-rejects-suggestions-he-is-not-a-conor-mcgregor-fan-after-failure-to-congratulate-him-35218806.html The Taoiseach has defended himself as a true fan of Conor McGregor in the wake of accusations that he failed to tweet congratulations after his win. His spokesman sent the Indo a photo of himself with Dee and Conor earlier this year, claiming and implying they got on famously well together. Just another thing in a list of bizarre and surreal things. This time 4 years ago he was prepping for Buchinger in the Helix with less than 3,000 followers on Twitter. Now the leader of our country is called out for failing to congratulate him alongside his 3 million followers. Mad times. It'd almost be similar to someone on Boards getting a shoutout on the world famous MMA Hour with the legendary Ariel Helwani presenting and it being available on Youtube to watch 734 times daily.
TimRiggins wrote: » The best of all? He predicted all this would happen.
wonderfullife wrote: » You're one of the lucky ones who was there, I'd imagine it was one of the best nights of your life?
TimRiggins wrote: » Absolutely. I honestly feel blessed to have attended both the Aldo fight and the Alvarez fights. Just special nights that I'll honestly take with me for the rest of my life. Kinda funny how it doesn't really sink in till you're leaving MSG or on the Subway home. Loved the change of walkout tune too. Wasn't a fan till I heard the lyrics "I get it, I get it, I get, I run New York!" Class.
Depp wrote: » the walkout couldnt have been any more perfect! I can only imagine what it was like live!
TimRiggins wrote: » Imagine how small Alvarez or whoever feels when he's there staring at you, hands out wide and the whole arena going nuts for him!
wonderfullife wrote: » So, I know people dismiss the "Amateur Psychology" out of hand on here. I put together a 30 second clip comparing the RDA and McGregor fights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ylol1AL24M It's something to behold. Eddie's eyes never once wavered from RDA. He was locked on to RDA before Herb Dean called them in, locked on to him during the instructions, and never took his eyes off him after they separated. Against Conor, he looked at the ground 3 times before John McCarthy called them in. As soon as he locked eyes on Conor, he immediately looked away to John McCarthy. When they separated the first thing he did was look at the ground again. Whether it's the mental warfare pre-fight or the enormity of the occasion or just Conor flashing that enormous wingspan during his introduction....... fighters tend to react in ways they wouldn't react in any other fight. That's a very real thing. The fight against Conor begins the minute they sign the contract. That's a unique thing to even the most-seasoned of competitors like Eddie.
TimRiggins wrote: » Yeah at the end of the day these fighters are human and while some like Diaz will care nothing for that sort of stuff I'd imagine you just feel completely on your own going against him. Eddie is avoiding eye contact with Conor clearly but you'd imagine after a while to settle in he'd be fine in the fight. Conor doesn't allow that though. As he said himself to Megan Olivi, it doesn't take him long. To think that he dropped Alvarez 5 times in 8 minutes is just remarkable.
wonderfullife wrote: » It's not just the 20,000 fans screaming for Conor and boo'ing Eddie (As big as that is to contend with). They all have to face an unusual situation in the build up to the fight. Eddie Alvarez had just over 30,000 Twitter followers when he signed to fight Conor. I'm gonna suggest nearly 99% of those were his own fans and people who admired him. He now has 60,000 followers. And for the past 7 weeks, he's had to adjust from being shown love every day on social media to being abused from a height. Every post he has made over the past 2 months, the comments are all roughly the same. "You'll do fookin nuttin shut your mouth"....."Lord Conor is going to decapitate you"..... He made one beautiful post a week ago. A picture of his 4 kids together wearing "Underground King" t-shirts. And the comments section are all "You're gonna get mauled"..."you better make sure those kids aren't watching their daddy getting KO'd" etc. It's a complete different kettle of fish fighting Conor and so many of the intangibles are impossible to prepare for. You have to experience it. Literally the only guys impervious to it seemed to be Max Holloway and Nate Diaz, and there's a fair % chance that has a lot to do with weed lol.
wonderfullife wrote: » http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/taoiseach-enda-kenny-rejects-suggestions-he-is-not-a-conor-mcgregor-fan-after-failure-to-congratulate-him-35218806.html The Taoiseach has defended himself as a true fan of Conor McGregor in the wake of accusations that he failed to tweet congratulations after his win. His spokesman sent the Indo a photo of himself with Dee and Conor earlier this year, claiming and implying they got on famously well together.
TimRiggins wrote: » You'd imagine after Eddie got dropped twice and McGregor shrugged off that takedown clipping him with a left on the way out he knew it was all over.
CatFromHue wrote: » that indo article is genuinely appalling stuff.
wonderfullife wrote: » I could be wrong so don't quote me on this but i believe it was Kenny Florian who said yesterday the reason Nate Diaz didn't end up unconscious wasn't purely down to his granite chin. It was also down to the fact that he wasn't lunging forward like Aldo, Alvarez, Brimage etc. He was being dropped with counters but if he had been lunging forward it would have increased the impact of the punches. That's where boxing and reach comes into play. Nate has the luxury of not needing to close distance. His gameplan isn't wrestling and his reach is superior to Conor. On that basis alone, I believe Khabib would be the easiest fight for Conor out of Ferguson/Diaz/Khabib. He has a tiny reach for Lightweight, with really short arms and has no power in his hand. I.e. He's the only one out of the three whose gameplan will be 100% reliant on closing the distance rapidly.
TimRiggins wrote: » Johnson had him in trouble and McGregor is a far better striker then Michael. Also the fact that after Khabib gets cracked he wouldn't be 100% there.
