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Official Conor McGregor Thread (READ MOD WARNING IN OP)

pablohoney87

OK guys,

The dust has cleared on the disaster that was the last thread. The biggest culprits won't be joining us here (Or anywhere else on the forum). Others have been warned in PMs.

This thread is a clean slate for everyone but there will be zero tolerance on it.

I remind all users to take a fresh look at the charter before posting here.

FIGHTER BASHING OF ANY KIND WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

It doesn't take a Masters in English to know the difference between a negative opinion of somebody and name calling.

This Thread is for all things about Connor that won't go into event threads. I.E. all speculation about opponents, his twitter posts, public appearances and media.

Once a fight has been announced and an event named all news relating to that fight can go into the event thread.

My own opinion on McGrogor vs Sanchez (Finally), this is an awful fight for sanchez I think. Especially if he loses to Connor at WW he is finished. Diego gets by with half decent striking and wrestling and the rest on athleticism and aggression.

Conors footwork is just too good to be held against the fence and isnt that much smaller than Diego. If Connor loses he'll probably get his wrist slapped by Dana and told to wise up and stick to 145, worst case scenario. Diego has much much more to lose in this fight and I think his emotions will get the best of him and we'll see something similar to Brimage.

But being honest I don't see the fight happening. Dana is probably getting a bit sick of fighters calling opponents out so publicly and he and his match makers will still want to be seen as the ones pulling the strings.

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When this new documentary coming out does anyone know?

DeVore

Youtube, btw, automates that copyright system with a program called Content ID... its freakin' scary as it analyses the video and compares it with a vast vast collection of music and automatically directs your ad revenue to the copyright holder (pending appeal, which almost never works

).
To broadcast a piece one time to a stadium costs a bit, but nothing like the cost of recording it onto something like a DVD or an internet player like Fightpass. Depending on the popularity of the song you are talking anywhere from 3K to 500K for a single song. Most likely around 25k.

Multiplied by 20 fighters a night... not going to happen

Even live broadcasting the walkin's would cost but considerably less (because its not "on demand"). Hence (partly) why not many get the full walk in treatment IMHO.

Mellor

TherapyBoy wrote: »

I thought he used 'Shipping up to Boston' for that event, I might be getting mixed up though.

Sorry, for some reason I read Boston as Brandao, was talking about the Dublin event.

For Boston he used "She Moved Through The Fair" by Sinead o Connor along with Shipping up to Boston

TherapyBoy

Mellor wrote: »

The UFC don't own rights to his entrance music, so they can't include it in their fight library or on their DVDs.
Happens virtually to all fighters' entrances, when that choose a commercial/established song.

Edit: FWIW the entrance music was The Foggy Dew by The Chieftains, and Hypnotize by Notorious B.I.G.

I thought he used 'Shipping up to Boston' for that event, I might be getting mixed up though.

Mellor

ps3man wrote: »

Thats not really good enough for a paid for service.. I love Fight Pass but it is far from perfect

Im sure they'd rather keep the original entrances, but record companies are hugely protective of music rights these days.

Even happens on youtube. I uploaded a video from the gym a while ago. Got a popup saying the rights to the song (playing on the radio in the background) belong to Sony, so they removed it.

scudzilla

ps3man wrote: »

Thats not really good enough for a paid for service.. I love Fight Pass but it is far from perfect

Even on the old DVD's of events you never got the walk out music of the fighter, think about it, average of 20 fighters per card, that's 20 songs they'd have to pay royalty/copyright to, FAR cheaper for them just to cut it

ps3man

Mellor wrote: »

The UFC don't own rights to his entrance music, so they can't include it in their fight library or on their DVDs.
Happens virtually to all fighters' entrances, when that choose a commercial/established song.

Edit: FWIW the entrance music was The Foggy Dew by The Chieftains, and Hypnotize by Notorious B.I.G.

Thats not really good enough for a paid for service.. I love Fight Pass but it is far from perfect

Mellor

The UFC don't own rights to his entrance music, so they can't include it in their fight library or on their DVDs.
Happens virtually to all fighters' entrances, when that choose a commercial/established song.

Edit: FWIW the entrance music was The Foggy Dew by The Chieftains, and Hypnotize by Notorious B.I.G.

ps3man

Just wanted to have a look back at the last Boston McGregor fight on fight pass, for his walk in they have dubbed over his walk in music and added some corny guitar ****e on top of it. Anyone else experience this or just me? Any reason for this?

rolexeagle1

GK1001

JJayoo wrote: »

That would make it even more of a joke.

Conor might indeed have some of the best hands in the UFC but it will take a lot more fights to establish that stat.

Pretty sure the piece is an opinion piece, i.e. Kenny Florians opinion, and not a stat...read before you write:cool:

SevereMMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n77rwxYueP4

Mellor

JJayoo wrote: »

Because IMO the level of competition he would have faced in his first few fights would have been so low and non comparable to the guys he is competing against in the UFC.

I do see where you are coming from. He obviously had easier fights. Which means easier knockouts. But I don't think anyone is calling him a great boxer simply because if the knockouts. It's more the technical aspect, which is largely (but not completely) independent of the opponent.

There is a great breakdown that details his technical progression from the wary date until the UFC.

JJayoo

John_D80 wrote: »

Giving.........??

I just quoted what you had said previously, was only messing

John_D80

JJayoo wrote: »

And John_D80 maybe you should take your own advice and relax because I am only giving

Giving.........??

Mate I'm totally relaxed. I was just pointing out that you mistakenly called that a stat and were taking it a little too serious for what was essentially a 2 minute space-filler on a magazine show.

No offence intended. Peace.

JJayoo

Mellor wrote: »

Why would basing it on all 18 of his fights before if a joke that basing it on his UFC fights only?

Because IMO the level of competition he would have faced in his first few fights would have been so low and non comparable to the guys he is competing against in the UFC.

And John_D80 maybe you should take your own advice and relax because I am only giving

one guys opinion. A bit of fun, not meant to be taken too seriously. Relax.

ASOT

John_D80 wrote: »

It's not a stat. It's one guys opinion. A bit of fun, not meant to be taken too seriously. Relax.

Again it's just an opinion. You don't have to go into the archives to find better boxers than Randy. You'll notice ferguson also chose himself??? :rolleyes: Proof, if any was needed, that it was just a bit of craic.

Exactly the bolded part, pretty simple. Sure Schaub put himself in like three lists when it came down to it. Obviously i woudlnt agree with Kenny that Conor should be on the list of all time great boxers YET, but without a doubt he has some of the best boxing in the whole UFC at the moment.

John_D80

JJayoo wrote: »

That would make it even more of a joke.

Conor might indeed have some of the best hands in the UFC but it will take a lot more fights to establish that stat.

It's not a stat. It's one guys opinion. A bit of fun, not meant to be taken too seriously. Relax.

kinggo99 wrote: »

I'll tell you whats list is terrible,surely the list is meant to be in the UFC right now,not someone like Randy whos long gone,if it was meant to be all time how did he put Randy in ahead of Chuck lol,not sure whats going on in the head of "I'll tell you what".

Again it's just an opinion. You don't have to go into the archives to find better boxers than Randy. You'll notice ferguson also chose himself??? :rolleyes: Proof, if any was needed, that it was just a bit of craic.

Mellor

JJayoo wrote: »

That would make it even more of a joke.

Conor might indeed have some of the best hands in the UFC but it will take a lot more fights to establish that stat.

Why would basing it on all 18 of his fights before if a joke that basing it on his UFC fights only?
A lot boxing/striking experts were raving about his technical ability, footwork etc after his debut. Since then guys like Jack Skack have really done their homework on his fight history.

Why do we need a set number of fighters to rank somebody's skills?
For example Kron Gracie is making his MMA debut next week. As long as he can manage a basic transition. I'd be pretty happy to rank him as one of the best grapplers in the sport.
(The whole package question mark will remain for a while obviously)

kinggo99

I'll tell you whats list is terrible,surely the list is meant to be in the UFC right now,not someone like Randy whos long gone,if it was meant to be all time how did he put Randy in ahead of Chuck lol,not sure whats going on in the head of "I'll tell you what".

TimRiggins

JJayoo wrote: »

That would make it even more of a joke.

Conor might indeed have some of the best hands in the UFC but it will take a lot more fights to establish that stat.

I'd imagine he's watched all of Conors fights outside the UFC as well. Wouldn't be regarding Kenny Florians opinion as a joke seeing as he's been in there with some of the best. He does like McGregor though, said he thought he'd beat Aldo

JJayoo

ciano316 wrote: »

He had fights before the UFC I'm guessing Florian has seen them

That would make it even more of a joke.

Conor might indeed have some of the best hands in the UFC but it will take a lot more fights to establish that stat.

Axwell

Ash also mentioned May last night in her interview saying she could co main event with Conor as the king and her the queen of Irish mma

ciano316

JJayoo wrote: »

What a joke, how can someone with such little time in the octagon make a top 5.

He had fights before the UFC I'm guessing Florian has seen them

JJayoo

ASOT wrote: »

Kenny Florian picked Conor in his top 5 boxers in the UFC

What a joke, how can someone with such little time in the octagon make a top 5.

BreakingBadLad

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xtal191

scudzilla wrote: »

i think he means Cathal

Yeah I meant Cathal not Conor.

ASOT

Kenny Florian picked Conor in his top 5 boxers in the UFC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aTdy2ovLQg

scudzilla

yipeeeee wrote: »

Connor??

Maybe, maybe not, its in his hands.

i think he means Cathal

yipeeeee

Saipanne wrote: »

It's astonishing, what people are willing to see.

What you mean?