Official Conor McGregor thread (part 6) *Read Mod Note in Post 1* Revised 13-01-19

Just to say all this talk about shares and shareholders is exactly the conversation I wanted to happen when I posted that clip.

Tazzimus wrote: »

Not really, he would have been the same weight when he was fighting Alvarez and Khabib in his lightweight fights, after re-hydrating.

Just because they were billed as welterweight, most guys fighting in that division will weigh in or around the 200lb mark come fight night,does that make the bouts light heavyweight?

Yes I agree with you but that is my point. Weight cutting is the thing about this sport I hate the most! If Conor & Nate were 170 or close enough to it in the cage for the first fight then how is that not a welterweight fight? It's more welterweight than Woodley v Till which could at the very least been a middleweight fight (just in terms of their actual weights on fight night not what it was labelled as). I understand you and EagererBeaver's point and agree to an extent but not cutting lots of weight would in an ideal world be encouraged and not thought of as a crazy thing to not do.

Some recent quotes from that McGregor Q&A thingy.


On the Khabib fight and possible rematch:


"It’s easy to do this once, okay. It’s easy for someone to be given something and to just do it one time. You put your absolute all into it. But to do it time after time, year after year, that’s when the motivation kind of dips.
That’s when the dedication kind of lacks and that’s when people creep up. That’s what I feel kind of happened here. I didn’t give him his respect, I marched forward and got caught with that overhand right.
If I had switched on I would not get caught with that overhand in any form of combat. I am very confident, very eager and very much in shape. I’ve got to respect that. He’s a formidable opponent. He’s wrestled bears as a kid, put a lot of time in his standup. He was a lot sharper than I anticipated he was going to be, so I have to respect that. It was his big moment. If there is dispute, there must be a rematch. There was a dispute in my last one. I slapped his brother and his cousin around at the top of the cage. This is not over. So there is dispute and there has got to be rematch".


On Joe Rogan:


"He’s a great man, he’s got a great following, he’s got crazy insight, gets great guests, maybe at some stage of the game I’ll be on his podcast, who knows. I’d like him to call a fight how he sees it correctly, instead of reading off a script though. The Diaz rematch it was like he was reading a script from the first fight and that last one, he was talking about my face was being smashed in. I left that Octagon with a black eye, the same way his two rat cousins left with. His brother and his cousin left the Octagon with a black eye, so what is he [Rogan] talking about? But maybe one day I’ll be a guest on his podcast.”