Official Conor McGregor thread (part 3) *Updated Warning in 1st Post Re:Boxing match

Jesus he could have been having a bad day or got bad news. His missus is pregnant at the moment, he may have other things on his mind.

Amazing how people don't think celebs or whatever aren't human and can't be having a bad day.

John_D80 wrote: »

Wow, to escalate from insulting his level of education right up to calling him a knacker in one post. Good man.

If I could report this post a thousand times I would.

Wake up fanboy! Bye now

markc91 wrote: »

Seen rumours on Facebook(I know) that UFC 209 will have Khabib vs. Tony and Woodley vs. Wonderboy II

Think Ariel said this on twitter too. Nothing signed yet though

Conor hired Charlie as a bodyguard probably for the very reason he was finding it hard to walk around town without taking a million photos. That and he's loyal to his friends. He's done a lot for Charlie since the terrible tragedy last year.

I got a small video with Conor (6 awkward seconds of me thinking I pressed camera instead of video and him saying "what are ya at ffs" at the end :pac:) and he couldn't have been nicer to me.

I don't do social media so I don't get photos for likes. I hope to print the photos I got with John/Richie S/Richy C/Charlie/Sinead/Dylan etc out into a collage some day and put it in a frame. It's just like any other photo I've ever taken - a snapshot of where I was in my life and something to look back on in 20 or 30 years (touch wood) to see how far I've come and how far (hopefully) Irish MMA has come.

Early days but Sinead Kavanagh, in particular, has serious potential in the sense she has raw power which is a rarity in wMMA. Firas Zahabi in his latest video said that raw power can't be taught - it can only be improved on to small degrees - and he cited the number 1 factor in raw power is anatomy, primarily where your muscles and tendons attach to your joints. A few millimeters difference up or down can separate Rumble power from DC power.

If she continues to improve her wrestling she'll be well able to compete at the highest level and the UFC needs more girls for the new 145lb division.

callaway92 wrote: »

In order of 1, 2 & 3 and 4 - 1 being most likely.

1) Diaz 2) Khabib 3) Ferguson 4) Woodley

I really really don't want him to fight Woodley because he would absolutely smashed within a couple of minutes.

1) Floyd.

lol.

No, seriously, probably:

1) Woodley 2) Cody 3) Ferguson 4) Mayweather 5) Khabib 6) Nate.

A controversial list but I'm looking at this from the perspective the UFC is no longer reaching towards being a legitimate sport. I.e. I'm looking at it from business and career standpoints. I'll give my reasoning below (however flawed it might be):

1. Woodley is the smartest choice from a pure risk/reward perspective, both for Conor and the UFC.

If he goes up and wins, the reward for Conor is the first man to ever hold titles in 3 weight classes (and he could still argue "simultaneously"). His star then becomes even more enormous. The UFC can promote it as another history fight, Woodley will be the heel villain in the build-up and Conor knows all he has to do to trigger Woodley is call him a "b1tch".

If he goes up and loses, then he retains his LW title and all he has to do is rinse/repeat his UFC 196 post-fight performance - blow it off as taking a shot and missing....and apologising to absolutely nobody.

(Incidentally I'd be picking Conor all day long against Woodley. Brendan Schaub said the same. Woodley is a good style match-up. He's just a bigger version of Eddie.)

2. Cody. They have history from TUF 22, Cody is game to fight at 145/150. It'd be a high-profile, low-risk fight for Conor in the sense his belt wouldn't be on the line and Cody is nowhere near as dangerous as anybody else on the list.

From the UFC's perspective, again it's low-risk, high-reward. If Conor destroys him then Cody goes back to his own division and is a bigger star for the balls he showed in stepping up. If Cody somehow wins, then they have 2 superstars on their hands and Conor still has his 155lb belt. If it's a barn-stormer either way both men come out bigger stars.

3. Ferguson is also managed by Audie Attar and has a stand-up style. The former might give him an advantage in securing the fight behind the scenes (over Woodley/Cody), the latter most certainly does. He might shoot on Conor at some stage and look to use some tricky 10th Planet stuff but it promises to be a mostly-stand-up fight.

It's not a super-attractive fight for the UFC though. It won't sell as much as a Woodley fight and Tony isn't exactly dynamite in Pressers. But it's more likely than tossing Conor the Russian bear.

4. Floyd. Huge $$$ all around. $2.317 debt underwritten by Goldman Sachs and Deustche Bank is a noose around the UFC's neck. If they can take those type of singular paydays cross-promoting in the future, they will. And I mean with both boxing and WWE. It's all about the $$$ now for the new owners and they are huge into content creation and cross-platforming.

For Conor it's honestly the lowest-risk, highest-reward thing he can do. It's a no-lose situation. Not one person will give him a hope of winning. If he pulls it off, he goes down as immortal. If he gets KO'd, he'll just go back to MMA. If he even lands a couple of good shots he'll have done more than most of Floyds recent opponents.

Either way he makes a fortune.

5. Khabib is the most deserving contender and the rightful next challenger. Let's assume for the sake of argument that Khabib beats Ferguson. The UFC would be mental not to allow Conor to fight Woodley or Cody FIRST (another huge payday) and then try sort out Conor v Khabib in RUSSIA 2018 and build it into a Rocky plot. Have Khabib out in the snow wrestling bears while Conor is running up the sides of mountains. Conor loves Rocky films and the UFC wants to crack Russia. It makes sense to hold that fight back (from a business standpoint).

Also, I wouldn't write Ferguson off against Khabib. By any stretch. RDA wanted no part of that tricky rubber guard play that Tony likes. Khabib might cut through it like a knife through butter but I still wouldn't write him off. And on the feet Ferguson can 100% head-kick KO Khabib or knock him senseless with a punch. Johnson had Khabib in big trouble early.

6. Nate. The UFC would need to be INSANE to make this fight.

He's literally the last option they would consider right now - they are keeping in the back-pocket for whenever Conor loses next. That trilogy is money in the bank for the UFC, there's no way on Gods green earth they play that card now. Nate asks for way too much $, he presents a tough stylistic match-up for Conor too. I fancy Conor to win (again) but there's no way Dana is letting that happen soon.

Why would you pay Nate $16-18 million total when you could get Cody or Woodley to fight for $3.5 million including PPV points? The worst business and sporting decision the UFC could make is the Nate fight (now). Business wise it would need to sell 450,000 more PPV's than Conor v Woodley to make sense. It won't.

From a sporting standpoint, it makes ZERO sense. It made zero sense last year but even less sense now Conor is LW champion. At least Woodley and Cody are meaningless fights outside the division. Nate would be skipping 2 contenders.

They hold the Diaz trilogy fight until Conor loses AND/OR until Nate has wasted all his money on weed and takes a reduced payday.

asteroids over berlin wrote: »

The guy was probably just trying to relax. His not the most mannered/educated person either so i would not be shocked by this behaviour either. Move on.

He has a very good vocabulary for someone who apparently isn't very well educated. Although he uses a lot of profanities, some of the words he uses wouldn't normally be in circulation among Crumlin natives.

McGregor has received death threats so I don't blame him for avoiding people.