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Official Conor McGregor Thread (READ MOD WARNING IN OP)

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    #5702
    darced
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    #5703
    JJayoo
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    darced wrote: »
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    I think by Tropicana they mean steroids not the IV rehydration situation


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    #5704
    Tinie
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    Aldo looks increibly motivated and scary in the square offs. I honestly don't see him being mentally broken etc. and I've been a McGregor fan for years.

    My worry is and its simple; McGregor gets hit a decent bit and aldo is a strong and quick striker.


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    darced
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    #5706
    JJayoo
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    I'm sure Aldo is actually delighted with Conor's antics I mean he is in line for a giant payday, and to be fair Conor has been working almost full time to promote the fight thus increasing Aldo's ppv % money. I think the reason he gets so pissed off by Conor when the two are present together is down to the UFC basically allowing Conor to do what he wants, essentially he is being encouraged to piss Aldo off and even though he is the disrespectful one he's also the golden boy.

    Slightly off topic, I see where Nate Diaz has called out Cowboy for letting Conor punk him. I would honestly worry for the Diaz brothers mental health if they started a verbal war with Conor


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    #5707
    Foxtrol
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    Tinie wrote: »
    Aldo looks increibly motivated and scary in the square offs. I honestly don't see him being mentally broken etc. and I've been a McGregor fan for years.

    My worry is and its simple; McGregor gets hit a decent bit and aldo is a strong and quick striker.

    I don't think he punches as hard as Mendes and McGregor ate some big shots from him (too many but didn’t hurt him). On the other hand Mendes rocked Aldo several times when they fought.

    MMA maths isn’t a science but from this evidence, and Aldo’s lack of finishes since he entered the UFC, striking isn’t a big concern for me. I’d be more worried that Aldo will try to constantly take him down and I expect if he does McGregor will be in a lot more trouble than with Mendes on top of him.


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    #5708
    evo2000
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    Tinie wrote: »
    Aldo looks increibly motivated and scary in the square offs. I honestly don't see him being mentally broken etc. and I've been a McGregor fan for years.

    My worry is and its simple; McGregor gets hit a decent bit and aldo is a strong and quick striker.

    Aldo gets hit more, mcgregor is a better striker and has more power.


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    #5709
    StringerBell
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    Aldo likes to trade, McGregor is very accurate, Aldo has more power.

    Don't confuse having one big punch with having more power. Or, do.

    Conor is a huge featherweight, he is fighting at a weight below himself so you would expect him to have enough power to trouble the featherweights. Aldo is a level above the likes of Edgar and Mendes and a hell of a long way above the rest

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



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    #5710
    evo2000
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    StringerBell wrote: »
    Aldo likes to trade, McGregor is very accurate, Aldo has more power.

    Don't confuse having one big punch with having more power. Or, do.

    Conor is a huge featherweight, he is fighting at a weight below himself so you would expect him to have enough power to trouble the featherweights. Aldo is a level above the likes of Edgar and Mendes and a hell of a long way above the rest

    How d yeah figure aldo has more power and then go on and say conor is a huge FW with power?

    Aldo has what one finish in his enitre ufc career? (i dont count the zombie one) meanwhile mcgregor has only went the distance once in his ufc career

    Mcgregor has way more ko power than aldo


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    #5711
    T-K-O
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    evo2000 wrote: »
    How d yeah figure aldo has more power and then go on and say conor is a huge FW with power?

    Aldo has what one finish in his enitre ufc career? (i dont count the zombie one) meanwhile mcgregor has only went the distance once in his ufc career

    Mcgregor has way more ko power than aldo

    Seeing as we are picking and choosing. Conor has only fought two decent fighters in the ufc, a ko of mendes and a ud v Holloway.

    Picking apart records is an easy task.


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    #5712
    Foxtrol
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    StringerBell wrote: »
    Aldo likes to trade, McGregor is very accurate, Aldo has more power.

    Don't confuse having one big punch with having more power. Or, do.

    Conor is a huge featherweight, he is fighting at a weight below himself so you would expect him to have enough power to trouble the featherweights. Aldo is a level above the likes of Edgar and Mendes and a hell of a long way above the rest

    This makes no sense to me. How are you differentiating one punch power and power?

    Throughout his fights Conor has consistently hurt his opponents with an array of different strikes which to me denotes power in general.

    Mendes would be someone that I would more classify as someone who has one punch power, where his knock outs tend to come from nowhere and mostly from one type of punch.


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    #5713
    evo2000
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    T-K-O wrote: »
    Seeing as we are picking and choosing. Conor has only fought two decent fighters in the ufc, a ko of mendes and a ud v Holloway.

    Picking apart records is an easy task.

    Thats cool but it still doesnt change the fact that he has ko d everyone of his opponents in the first or second round bar one while Aldo only has one finish.

    Also dustin poirer is a hell of a fighter aswell


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    #5714
    evo2000
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    Foxtrol wrote: »
    This makes no sense to me. How are you differentiating one punch power and power?

    Throughout his fights Conor has consistently hurt his opponents with an array of different strikes which to me denotes power in general.

    Mendes would be someone that I would more classify as someone who has one punch power, where his knock outs tend to come from nowhere and mostly from one type of punch.

    Thats what i was trying to figure out, awful lot of experts on here that make some wild claims from the hip...


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    #5715
    T-K-O
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    evo2000 wrote: »
    Thats cool but it still doesnt change the fact that he has ko d everyone of his opponents in the first or second round bar one while Aldo only has one finish.

    Also dustin poirer is a hell of a fighter aswell

    Dustin is average at best. He couldn't break top 5 and won't break the top 5 at LW.

    Conor has a lot of power but to say conor has all ko's , Aldo doesn't , over simplifies the comparison of the two fighters


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    #5716
    evo2000
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    T-K-O wrote: »
    Dustin is average at best. He couldn't break top 5 and won't break the top 5 at LW.

    Conor has a lot of power but to say conor has all ko's , Aldo doesn't , over simplifies the comparison of the two fighters

    Well its a fact aldo hasnt been a finisher since the WEC days, he simply doesnt finish fights.

    Dustin was top 5 when he lost to Mcgregor you dont get there by being "average" he will be a solid test for duffy.


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    #5717
    T-K-O
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    evo2000 wrote: »
    Well its a fact aldo hasnt been a finisher since the WEC days, he simply doesnt finish fights.

    Dustin was top 5 when he lost to Mcgregor you dont get there by being "average" he will be a solid test for duffy.

    Aldo has gotten use to the easy way out (at least in his mind) in many of his fights he strolls home after winning the first 3 rounds. Lack of a killer instinct or desire who knows why.

    Aldo,Edgar, mendes and now Conor the rest are pretty average or unproven potential


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    #5718
    Foxtrol
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    T-K-O wrote: »
    Dustin is average at best. He couldn't break top 5 and won't break the top 5 at LW.

    Conor has a lot of power but to say conor has all ko's , Aldo doesn't , over simplifies the comparison of the two fighters

    Can you explain why Aldo has struggled to finish some average enough fighters since joining the UFC?

    His two finishes so far could also be described as fortuitous.


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    #5719
    T-K-O
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    Foxtrol wrote: »
    Can you explain why Aldo has struggled to finish average enough fighters since joining the UFC? His two finishes so far could be described as fortuitous.

    Do I look like a mind reader, I didn't know. However it was very obvoius to see he eased off in many of those UFC wins


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    #5720
    evo2000
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    T-K-O wrote: »
    Do I look like a mind reader, I didn't know. However it was very obvoius to see he eased off in many of those UFC wins

    You seemed pretty quick to make an excuse for aldo that he strolls home after the 3rd round for someone thats not a mind reader! he didnt easy off he slowed and faded cause he gassed your making it out like his doing it on purpose.


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    #5721
    T-K-O
    Registered Users Posts: 6,309 ✭✭✭T-K-O


    evo2000 wrote: »
    You seemed pretty quick to make an excuse for aldo that he strolls home after the 3rd round for someone thats not a mind reader! he didnt easy off he slowed and faded cause he gassed your making it out like his doing it on purpose.

    And your making out he goes life and death with every opponent


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    #5722
    evo2000
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    T-K-O wrote: »
    Aldo has gotten use to the easy way out (at least in his mind) in many of his fights he strolls home after winning the first 3 rounds. Lack of a killer instinct or desire who knows why.

    Aldo,Edgar, mendes and now Conor the rest are pretty average or unproven potential

    Also thats a pretty big statement to make considering the top 10 of the FW division...


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    #5723
    T-K-O
    Registered Users Posts: 6,309 ✭✭✭T-K-O


    evo2000 wrote: »
    Also thats a pretty big statement to make considering the top 10 of the FW division...

    Not at all, when Holloway et al beat an Edgar or mendes etc then we can talk. Until that happens they have potential when it comes to being classed among the best.


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    #5724
    evo2000
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    T-K-O wrote: »
    Not at all, when Holloway et al beat an Edgar or mendes etc then we can talk. Until that happens they have potential when it comes to being classed among the best.

    Cub Swanson ,Dennis bermudez Ricardo Lamas, Zombie, Stephens...

    All unproven and average tho i guess... you dont have a clue lad.. the fact you think aldo purposely doesnt finish fights is just the icing on the cake.

    And holloway is most certainly proven himself as a solid fighter, if he keeps going the way his going hes not too far off a title shot.


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    #5725
    Foxtrol
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    T-K-O wrote: »
    Do I look like a mind reader, I didn't know. However it was very obvoius to see he eased off in many of those UFC wins

    So you disregard McGregor’s power because most of his KO’s have been against ‘average opponents’ yet make excuses for the fact that Aldo has been unable to KO the average opponents he has faced in the UFC. Seems quite hypocritical.

    To mix up an old cliché; ‘You can only KO what is put in front of you’ – McGregor has done this for most of his UFC opponents, Aldo has not.


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    #5726
    CatFromHue
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    Foxtrol wrote: »
    Can you explain why Aldo has struggled to finish some average enough fighters since joining the UFC?

    To be honest I'm not an expert on the matter but the guys he fought in the UFC don't lose much, let alone get finished.

    Only Aldo and McGregor have finished Mendes and McGregor's fight against him will always have an asterisk on due to the short camp for Mendes

    Lamas's record in the UFC/WEC is 8-2 with the 2 losses being KO's

    Sung Jung Aldo finished

    Edgar has never been finished with all 3 if his losses before Aldo being decisions

    Out of Florian's 5 losses before Aldo 1 was a submission and the other a TKO

    Hominick's 2 losses, out of his 8 UFC/WEC fights, were both submissions.


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    #5727
    T-K-O
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    evo2000 wrote: »
    Cub Swanson ,Dennis bermudez Ricardo Lamas, Zombie, Stephens...

    All unproven and average tho i guess... you dont have a clue lad.. the fact you think aldo purposely doesnt finish fights is just the icing on the cake.

    And holloway is most certainly proven himself as a solid fighter, if he keeps going the way his going hes not too far off a title shot.

    I said unproven or poential but what is typed and what is processed in that crazy little head of yours are constantly two very different things.

    Dustin the great lost when he stepped up v cub, cub was mauled by frankie. Fighting is all about levels. If you think a top 5 guy who can go no further is great fighter so be it.


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    #5728
    T-K-O
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    Foxtrol wrote: »
    So you disregard McGregor’s power because most of his KO’s have been against ‘average opponents’ yet make excuses for the fact that Aldo has been unable to KO the average opponents he has faced in the UFC. Seems quite hypocritical.

    To mix up an old cliché; ‘You can only KO what is put in front of you’ – McGregor has done this for most of his UFC opponents, Aldo has not.

    I didn't disregard his power, that you made up.


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    #5729
    evo2000
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    T-K-O wrote: »
    I said unproven or poential but what is typed and what is processed in that crazy little head of yours are constantly two very different things.

    Dustin the great lost when he stepped up v cub, cub was mauled by frankie. Fighting is all about levels. If you think a top 5 guy who can go no further is great fighter so be it.

    Hows cub unproven? how is bermudez unproven? how is ricardo lamas who fought for the title unproven?

    Your trying to squirm out of it now but you havent a notion ur just typing pure waffle.


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    #5730
    evo2000
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    T-K-O wrote: »
    I didn't disregard his power, that you made up.

    lmao wow.. you just said aldo had more ko power and that mcgregor can only ko "unproven fighters" that is disregarding it...


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    #5731
    heartofwhite
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    In JD's Steakhouse in Terenure tonight and McGregor was sitting behind me with his mates. Really nice guy and posed for pics. Did not ask him though, left him to his dinner. Big bandage over his eye.


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