UFC 196: McGregor v Diaz

That_Guy wrote: »

I have finally resurfaced.

What time is the fight on?

Anytime from 3am on. Make sure you dont fall asleep and miss it!

RedemptionZ wrote: »

Yup. People don't realise that first of all the LW division is far more stacked than the FW division and secondly that McGregor isn't a big LW, he's average sized, possibly even small.

Looking back on it, he probably should have stayed in FW and defended his belt a few times to cement his legacy a bit better. At the moment he's only really got two impressive wins, Aldo and Mendes (who didn't have a full camp).

Poirier and Holloway are good wins in fairness. Two very good fighters in their own right.

The lack of game plan finally caught up with Conor for me. From all his recent fights he just does the same thing which has been working but at some point it comes down to fine margins and it won't. He has massive cojones for taking the fight in the first place, but his team have to look at themselves. Letting him go in there and blow his load going for the KO was a massive mistake and he said so himself. Not only for a bigger oppenent but for Nate who is super durable.

The fight was great, he came out and back Diaz up straight away which did surprise me a little, I thought Nate wouldn't be easily pushed back, but he was. Conor just threw too many power shots, the kicks were not good at all, legs kicks and front kicks to the abdomen would of been much more effective. Conor had the better of it in round one and easily won it, but you could see he was looking tired, mouth open breathing hard, he tried to cover it with the "all day, I can do this all day".

He was still good for 2 minutes of round two, but once Nate landed his first big shot, Conors energy drained, he got lit up and turned to a desperate takedown. People are criticizing his ground game, but he got out of the guillotine and it was only for the lack of energy that he couldn't capitalize and get up. Nate did excellent to take his back, pound him and quickly sink in the choke. Great win for Nate, I would give him the title shot at 200, he deserves it, I just hope he shows up in shape. Conor tapped, but so would most people, espically the one's talking shit on here.

He's still an Irish sporting legend and the current featherweight champ. I don't even think I'll see another Irish UFC champ in my life time, it's a pleasure to follow Conors fights since 2008 and I look forward to seeing him fight again, he's a great showman and fighter.


Holly V Meisha was fantastic! I thought Meisha had the choke in round 2 but Holly showed great heart to stick it out. I wouldn't of given it a 10-8, wasn't even close to it. Meisha really didn't do much in rounds 1,3,4. She was very cautious through out the fight, but that was probably the best game plan to have with Holly's footwork and boxing. In round five she "risked it for the biscuit", and really have to hand it to her keeping Holly down, taking her time and getting the choke, it was excellent.

I'm not sure they'll do Meisha V Ronda III for 200 but I would love to see Cat Zingano fight Meisha again.

Tough loss for Irish fans, but we are use to that from most sports

Going away from Conor, I'm sure it was said in the thread at the time but Tom Lawlor was absolutely robbed by the judges. How he was scored to have lost the first round I don't know.

FollowMyWay wrote: »

Conor just threw too many power shots, the kicks were not good at all, legs kicks and front kicks to the abdomen would of been much more effective.

Conor is weird. For all the fancy capoeira kicks and everything it's like he never learned a basic leg kick. Hardly every throws one.

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

As long as he's holding a belt, he won't be fighting FS1 fightcards, he's still the biggest draw in the UFC alongside Ronda, back down to 145, defend against Frankie and Aldo (in that order preferably) and then talk up a move to 155 again.

If he's fighting Duffy it'll be at 155 and not for a belt. Don't see him in the title mix at 155 with his current grappling/ground game

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Watching again, at 2.50is left in the second round Nate starts finding his range with the jab and starts picking Conor off every time he comes in, starts slipping conors lead uppercut and landing the straight left as well, then at 2.23 move out of the way of a right and throws a beautiful left cross that puts Conor back on his heels and then went for the Kill.

In fairness to McGregor, he took some big, big shots and didn't fall down.

Just watched that too, Something weird when Conors fighting before the fight and during it i only seem to focus on what he's doing and when he's connecting must be green tainted glasses but after watching it back Diaz landed some decent shots even in the in the 1st round was dissapointed he didn't target the leg more though he threw a oblique leg kick that seemed to bend Diaz's leg back but didn't do much more after that, Intresting now to see how he bounces back and with that air of invincibility gone. Have be happy for Diaz all the same.

threeball wrote: »

from mount to choke took about 7 seconds. That's either white belt defence or gutless cop out. At least try to defend yourself. Anyone else did that but Mcgregor and people on here would be tearing him apart.

It's clear he was not able to think straight after taking those punches!?

threeball wrote: »

from mount to choke took about 7 seconds. That's either white belt defence or gutless cop out. At least try to defend yourself. Anyone else did that but Mcgregor and people on here would be tearing him apart.

He was completely rocked FFS.

Look at Packalen last weekend in London for example. Landed a heavy shot on Gouti, took his back and finished with a choke. The entire fight lasted 24 seconds. The time between the uppercut landing and the tap was about 10 seconds in total.

No one in their right mind is going to criticse any fighter who was rocked from giving up that choke, McGregor or not. It would be mind-numbingly stupid.