Official Conor McGregor thread (part 2). **Read warning in 1st post**

empacher wrote: »

Owen Hart? I'm not a wwe fan, but their entrainment wrestling isn't injury free.

Before he retired stone cold was wrestling knowing that one wrong move would paralyse or kill him.

In fairness Owen Hart fell from the rafters while being lowered into the ring. It's not injury free but that's not exactly a realistic example of the dangers he might face.

Thelomen Toblackai wrote: »

One thing signing a multimillion dollar contract but it's a different story though once this stuff comes around, particularly when you think you can just not do it as Conor thought.

It's also nothing like the post fight press conference. Go back to the pre fight press conferences and interviews and see what was said. To do that again with Conor facing the guy who's beaten him and who Conor went back to for a rematch, expected to be his usual mouthy self but open to a lot of digs and a very real possibility Diaz getting to him wouldn't be on Conors "favourite things to do in vegas" list

I definitely thought it was gonna be interesting to hear how Conor would handle Nate now that Nate had some ammunition to fire back at him by way of his win in the cage,but i don't think for a second that Conor was afraid to face that and its naive to think it any way factors into this at all.He would have known this was coming and he could easily have sidestepped Nate for a few fights and nobody would have said a word.

eddie73 wrote: »

.. you could forgive Diaz seeing as he was on his holidays when he got the call to fight 10 days later.

You know, I think that's all been overstated. Nate being in Cabo partying, lying on a sofa, stomach bug, half camp etc etc. I must have heard that stuff said a million times or more now and I don't believe a word of it. Yeah, I've seen the video of him knocking back *a* Tequila shot but so what McGregor was out the week before shooting Embedded eating steaks at some restaurante. Big deal. Fighters are not supposed to train too hard the week or so before a fight. In fact I seen some trainer condemn Conor for working on those ropes the week before the fight as according to him they would have pushed him much too hard.

After Nate won against Johnson in December we all seen him calling out McGregor from the octagon, saying he had taken everything he had worked for. Then in all the post fight interviews he kept saying he was ready to fight anytime, anywhere. There are interviews from when RDA was rumoured to be pulling out of the planned fight with McGregor where Nate was talking about how much he trains and he says in one of them that even on his worst day he trains for two hours. Nate's (and Nick's) lifestyle is very clean (apart from the ganja). They are both pretty much a vegan also.

So, given all that, I really don't buy into that nonsense about how Nate was all that disadvantaged going into the fight as people claim. Conor was the one who had trained to fight a much different style fighter and had to do a 180. Nate was campaigning for the Conor fight. He was the money fight he claimed. Then when he took it he says he offered to fight at 160 but I don't believe a word of that. When Conor pushed Dana on it at one of the press conferences Nate started laughing, as did Dana, as they both knew it was bull.

As Conor said, if he had agreed to fight at 160, then the fight would have been at 160 but it wasn't and that was down to Nate. He then backtracked and said that Conor stalled and so he had no choice but to ask for 165 but that is bull. I think he, and his camp (sorry, "half camp") knew very well what they were doing by trying to get Conor to fight at as high a weight as they could get knowing full well that he had been training to weigh in at 155. In the end Conor said fcuk it, let him weigh in at 170. A mistake? Perhaps, but either way, Nate Diaz was not the disadvantaged fighter he and his supporters keep making him out to be.

I think Conor took a lot of Nate's shots on purpose in the 2nd round also. Just watched it again there and you can see Conor goading him. I think he thought he Nate beat in that round and could just pick him off. He even manged to grab Nate by the head and knee him the face early in the 2nd. Seemed to me as if he got a little cocky and felt that as Nate's jabs weren't hurting him or zapping him much, that they would continue to not be... he looked shocked more than anything when Nate caught him with those two shots with rocked him. Another thing I hate is how people cite Conor tapping out in that round as being proof positive that his ground game is not up to Nates when it's quite clear that the fight was won long before Conor went to ground. In fact I thought he more than matched Nate in the 1st round in that regard, even though it was only a brief spell that they were grappling.

So anyway yeah. Nate Diaz fat boy partying in Cabo my foot.

Axwell wrote: »

Dana is still not slating McGregor over it, fully respects him and his decision.

Dana asked almost identical questions re: 'being a diva' in a number of interviews though. Suggests a particular narrative being created and perpetuated. Useful in a situation where Dana knows he can't say it but to have other imply it is incredibly good fortune...