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UFC 194: McGregor vs Aldo ***READ POST #1 BEFORE POSTING***

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭py2006


    McGregor via Decision
    Have to say, none of the other fighers looked as bad as Conor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Conor looked like death dressed up tonight.
    Aldo looked absolutely composed.
    You could sense the reaction from the Irish crowd.
    They seem shocked to see Conor in this state.
    Worrying it has to be said...................:(

    Having watched the q&a earlier, they wouldn't be capable of rational thought


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    McGregor via Decision
    py2006 wrote: »
    Have to say, none of the other fighers looked as bad as Conor.

    ah holloway was fairly rough now, good few of em were to be fair, just we're not as used to seeing their faces normally


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    py2006 wrote: »
    Have to say, none of the other fighers looked as bad as Conor.

    He walks around at 170 in fairness.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭EuskalHerria


    McGregor via Decision
    Video on the UFC snapchat of Conor giving a nice middle finger to Brazilian fans. Also a video of him backstage before the weigh ins, tri-colour raised, having a go at the Aldo team :D

    Bisping just a moment ago on Fox "Conor could be the first Irish champion, and first UK champion'. Oh dear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,610 ✭✭✭shocksy


    McGregor via Decision
    Bookies have moved the odds, Aldo is now Evens from 5/4 in about 48 hours, having been 6/4 a couple of weeks ago, Conor drifting badly and may even go off odds against, money is coming for Aldo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    shocksy wrote: »
    Bookies have moved the odds, Aldo is now Evens from 5/4 in about 48 hours, having been 6/4 a couple of weeks ago, Conor drifting badly and may even go off odds against, money is coming for Aldo.

    Means Jack **** in relation to the fight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,629 ✭✭✭magma69


    Aldo via Submission
    350uz52.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,608 ✭✭✭breadmonkey


    McGregor via Decision
    Holy sh!t just watched the weigh in. McGregor must have been really suffering there. Another poster mentioned his voice, hopefully he recovers well between now and tomorrow night!


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,056 ✭✭✭darced


    Aldo via Submission
    This post has been deleted.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    McGregor via Decision

    This fellas gunna get a recording contract by the looks of things, getting a serious reaction, some pipes!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Tilikum


    Aldo via Submission
    JustTheOne wrote: »
    He walks around at 170 in fairness.

    Well then fight at a higher weight ffs. There should be a limit on how much people can cut. Height & reach advantage. If he fought people at a higher weight he'd get his arse handed to him, because they're all cutting.

    The whole thing is a joke lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,260 ✭✭✭✭StringerBell


    Aldo via Decision
    moneyman wrote: »
    Absolutely nothing noteworthy, just Dave clutching at straws to try to pretend Conor loses even the tiniest of battles. Nothing new.

    This is actually clutching at straws to pretend Conor can never lose even the most insignificant of battles!

    Aldo mocked what McGregor did at the press conference, McGregor wasn't expecting it and it was ****ing hilarious, that's all there is to it. Not a huge deal but certainly the first time Aldo has "got one over" on McGregor in the media battle, does it matter to the fight? Very unlikely but can we not just see it for the fun moment it was instead of getting bent out of shape?

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,610 ✭✭✭shocksy


    McGregor via Decision
    JustTheOne wrote: »
    Means Jack **** in relation to the fight.

    Where did i state it did????? :rolleyes::rolleyes:

    I was just making the point betting patterns have changed dramatically.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭CurryFlavoured


    Wish I had backed Aldo earlier, didn't expect him to shorten so much. I think Aldo wins this but by jaysus I want Conor to take it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,516 ✭✭✭tinpib


    McGregor via Decision
    robwen wrote: »
    Conor looks more like Paddy the Hooligan than himself in some of those weigh in pics

    In the face, he was a double. A bit shocking really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,629 ✭✭✭magma69


    Aldo via Submission
    Tilikum wrote: »
    Well then fight at a higher weight ffs. There should be a limit on how much people can cut. Height & reach advantage. If he fought people at a higher weight he'd get his arse handed to him, because they're all cutting.

    The whole thing is a joke lol

    Agreed something should be done about it. It's dangerous for fighters. Wouldn't surprise me if a lot of fighters are on diuretics to aid them cutting weight.

    IBF boxing sanctioning body have a rehydration limit to regulate massive weight cutters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    I'd probably have backed Aldo if I were a betting man, but sure a great time to fill your boots if you were a conor believer the whole time?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭CurryFlavoured


    Conors always looked like **** at the weigh in but still performed, problem is there aren't IVs anymore. Aldo didn't look too much better, cheek bones popping out.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,710 ✭✭✭✭Paully D


    McGregor via Decision
    shocksy wrote: »
    Bookies have moved the odds, Aldo is now Evens from 5/4 in about 48 hours, having been 6/4 a couple of weeks ago, Conor drifting badly and may even go off odds against, money is coming for Aldo.

    Posted months ago that this would happen. The sharps were always going to lump on Aldo at the price he was at.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    McGregor via Decision
    Tilikum wrote: »
    Well then fight at a higher weight ffs. There should be a limit on how much people can cut. Height & reach advantage. If he fought people at a higher weight he'd get his arse handed to him, because they're all cutting.

    The whole thing is a joke lol

    fuck it if it gives him an advantage and hes able to put in the hard yards without affecting his performance in the ring more power to him


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    Depp wrote: »
    fuck it if it gives him an advantage and hes able to put in the hard yards without affecting his performance in the ring more power to him

    Exactly there is nothing to stop anyone fighting at 145 regardless of your weight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,950 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    McGregor via Decision
    I know IV's are now banned, what's to stop Conor and his team, or any fighter for that matter, heading back to their rooms and plugging one in? If nothing illegal is in the drip then how would they find out?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭GFT


    McGregor via Decision
    Serious increase in experts in here tonight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,260 ✭✭✭✭StringerBell


    Aldo via Decision
    I'd probably have backed Aldo if I were a betting man, but sure a great time to fill your boots if you were a conor believer the whole time?

    I backed Aldo a couple of weeks ago, but if the odds keep moving the way they are I'll be backing Conor also, then only the dreaded draw will be able to keep me from profit!

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,541 ✭✭✭Davei141


    Aldo now 10/11. Interesting to see what its like before the fight.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    scudzilla wrote: »
    I know IV's are now banned, what's to stop Conor and his team, or any fighter for that matter, heading back to their rooms and plugging one in? If nothing illegal is in the drip then how would they find out?
    Sure aldo said he was gonna keep using them anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,068 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    McGregor via Decision
    Conor looks like he was just freed from Auschwitz. Not sure how people are saying he looks better than previous weigh ins. His face was literally caving in around the cheek area.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭moneyman


    This is actually clutching at straws to pretend Conor can never lose even the most insignificant of battles!

    Aldo mocked what McGregor did at the press conference, McGregor wasn't expecting it and it was ****ing hilarious, that's all there is to it. Not a huge deal but certainly the first time Aldo has "got one over" on McGregor in the media battle, does it matter to the fight? Very unlikely but can we not just see it for the fun moment it was instead of getting bent out of shape?

    I never even implied that Conor couldn't, or didn't, lose any small battles. Maybe you should read my post again and see that I was referring to this:
    Jose just made conor his b1tch this time and conor knows it.

    ie. Dave completely blowing something trivial out of proportion.

    It was clear Conor wasn't expecting that from Jose, so yeah, apparently Conor is his bitch now and Conor knows it. Makes sense.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,629 ✭✭✭googled eyes


    Didn't Jose say in an interview he would still use IV to rehydrate?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,583 ✭✭✭Swashbuckler


    Aldo via Submission
    People getting way too excited about Conor's appearance. He always looks crap at the weigh in. He won't look like that tomorrow. If he loses I don't think it will have anything to do with the cut.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭moneyman


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Conor looks like he was just freed from Auschwitz. Not sure how people are saying he looks better than previous weigh ins. His face was literally caving in around the cheek area.


    Probably because he does? Certainly no worse anyway. Go back and watch the Siver and Mendes weigh-ins, seems like you haven't seen them.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,462 Mod ✭✭✭✭Axwell


    GFT wrote: »
    Serious increase in experts in here tonight.

    Wise words from a seasoned boards poster like yourself...nearly in double digits :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭moneyman


    scudzilla wrote: »
    I know IV's are now banned, what's to stop Conor and his team, or any fighter for that matter, heading back to their rooms and plugging one in? If nothing illegal is in the drip then how would they find out?

    Leaves traces of a plastic substance or something like that in the bloodstream which can be detected through testing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,583 ✭✭✭Swashbuckler


    Aldo via Submission
    scudzilla wrote: »
    I know IV's are now banned, what's to stop Conor and his team, or any fighter for that matter, heading back to their rooms and plugging one in? If nothing illegal is in the drip then how would they find out?

    Wont the plastic from the iv show up in the blood test?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,260 ✭✭✭✭StringerBell


    Aldo via Decision
    moneyman wrote: »
    I never even implied that Conor couldn't, or didn't, lose any small battles. Maybe you should read my post again and see that I was referring to this:



    ie. Dave completely blowing something trivial out of proportion.

    It was clear Conor wasn't expecting that from Jose, so yeah, apparently Conor is his bitch now and Conor knows it. Makes sense.

    The post I responded to said nothing happened, may have been nothing noteworthy happened, though I think its noteworthy that Aldo got the better of one of those exchanges and took McGregor by surprise for once to be honest.

    Made him his bitch? Of course not, but certainly not nothing happened.

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭moneyman


    Didn't Jose say in an interview he would still use IV to rehydrate?

    He did emphatically state that he would continue using it, but then he took it back at a later date, so I imagine there's no chance of him using the IV... ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    Amazing how all of a sudden people favour aldo.


    They look at a weigh in as the reason he will win, while over the last few weeks forgetting he is the unbeaten champion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,068 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    McGregor via Decision
    moneyman wrote: »
    Probably because he does? Certainly no worse anyway. Go back and watch the Siver and Mendes weigh-ins, seems like you haven't seen them.

    I have seen them, thanks. So many people saying similar to I am here and all over social media.

    That being said. Aldo looked terrible too. Anyone know why conors voice was so weird before the weigh in? Was it die to the dehydration?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,629 ✭✭✭googled eyes


    The weigh is popping up on Facebook. Don't think I remember McGregor smiling so much at a weigh in


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    The banning of IVs is a big thing in fairness.

    Wonder how well each will rehydrate now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭moneyman


    darced wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    I'm not sure you understand how cutting works if you think the injury was supposedly the cause of him looking drained last time. No one was saying that. The injury simply made the cut more difficult, it's not going to make him look any different once he hits 145. How would it?

    He doesn't look worse by the way, that's not accurate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    McGregor via Decision
    MarkY91 wrote: »
    I have seen them, thanks. So many people saying similar to I am here and all over social media.

    That being said. Aldo looked terrible too. Anyone know why conors voice was so weird before the weigh in? Was it die to the dehydration?

    I dunno i was surprised by how good he looked anyway! destroys himself with that cut...yeah say thats it was just a bit of hoarseness from the dry throat and all


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,583 ✭✭✭Swashbuckler


    Aldo via Submission
    MarkY91 wrote: »
    I have seen them, thanks. So many people saying similar to I am here and all over social media.

    That being said. Aldo looked terrible too. Anyone know why conors voice was so weird before the weigh in? Was it die to the dehydration?

    So many people saying the same but so many people who've never watched a fight outside of McGregor so I wouldn't use that as a reference. He looks no worse than Siver or mendes weigh in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,260 ✭✭✭✭StringerBell


    Aldo via Decision
    JustTheOne wrote: »
    Amazing how all of a sudden people favour aldo.


    They look at a weigh in as the reason he will win, while over the last few weeks forgetting he is the unbeaten champion.

    That is hilarious alright

    Wouldn't be as bad if McGregor didn't always look like a ghost at weigh ins but it does suggest a lot are not actually that familiar with it I guess.

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭ComfortKid


    MarkY91 wrote:
    Conor looks like he was just freed from Auschwitz. Not sure how people are saying he looks better than previous weigh ins. His face was literally caving in around the cheek area.


    You haven't a clue.. Look at his weigh in for Mendes fight and then try tell us he looks worse tonight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,068 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    McGregor via Decision
    Depp wrote: »
    I dunno i was surprised by how good he looked anyway! destroys himself with that cut...yeah say thats it was just a bit of hoarseness from the dry throat and all

    I guess I just wasn't expecting such a caved in cheek area. I didnt think his face looked like that last weigh ins. But his beard was alot shorter tonight so maybe his face was hidden by his longer beard at other weigh ins?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭ComfortKid


    GFT wrote:
    Serious increase in experts in here tonight.


    Would like to hear your enlightened opinion?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭RedemptionZ


    Aldo via Decision
    I didn't put any money on this. Kind of glad I didn't, want to enjoy this without any distractions but damn you could've made a nice profit with the way these odds are switching.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,068 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    McGregor via Decision
    ComfortKid wrote: »
    You haven't a clue.. Look at his weigh in for Mendes fight and then try tell us he looks worse tonight.

    Sorry for having a different opinion to you. Calm down..


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