McGregor vs Aldo---December 12th **Main card 3am. Conor v Aldo approx 5am

c montgomery

Gamebred wrote: »

http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/12/9/9834878/the-kid-from-the-favela



Good write up on Aldo.

Wow, great read!
Alot of admiration and respect for him.

froog

looking forward to the presser.

Depp

is it being live streamed does anybody know?

ASOT

Depp wrote: »

is it being live streamed does anybody know?

Yeah on the ufc youtube account

hefferboi

akelly02 wrote: »

Jacare or Romero? Weidman or Rockhold? 2 unbelievable matchups that im struggling to pick the winner of

Romero and Weidman for me.


This has to be the most stacked card since they introduced Fight Nights?

All_in_Flynn

Conor looking much healthier thus far. Obv won't know till weigh in but if he looks as bad as he was for Mendes then I'd be very worried. On the flip side it will be interesting to see how Aldo looks compared to previous weigh ins too.

Fly out tomorrow morning at 9am. Can't wait!

Ps what time is the presser GMT?

dickwod1

9 pm

Depp

ASOT wrote: »

Yeah on the ufc youtube account

dickwod1 wrote: »

9 pm

cheers lads!

ComfortKid

Is the press conference on BT or Setanta tonight?

JoeyJJ

Just watching hominick fight before the presser. Aldo head down when called over more than ever remember he doesn't usually engage in eye contact.

Oh the soccer kicks kept on being brought up by rogan

Depp

whos at the press conference actually other than aldo and conor?

dave1982

Depp wrote: »

whos at the press conference actually other than aldo and conor?

Guessing Edgar Mendes northcutt

sonofenoch

dickwod1 wrote: »

9 pm

Oh jaysus that chatbox is painful ...painful

JoeyJJ

Sonnen there wonder is he gonna ask something

moneyman

Conor looks strong and healthy.

JustTheOne

moneyman wrote: »

Conor looks strong and healthy.

And extremely confident even for his standards:)

Amazingfun

lol, oh my God Aldo is sick to the teeth of listening to Conor, so hilarious watching his face when Conor talks

EuskalHerria

Enjoying this press conference. Conor certainly seems incredibly relaxed and confident without being brash.

xtal191

They all look so bored

EuskalHerria

xtal191 wrote: »

They all look so bored

To be fair it's almost all questions for Conor and a few for Aldo. Mendes got asked 2 questions, 1 was for his opinion on Conor's fight

moneyman

Just me or does Rockhold look very nervous and on edge?

Lucas Hood

Can't remember seeing Conor so calm and so respectful to the other fighter.

JustTheOne

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Can't remember seeing Conor so calm and so respectful to the other fighter.

How is he been respectful?

OmegaRed

Bit of a strange one. All very calm and collected. Think that Aldo look very tired and 'old' looking. Conor very straight faced. Hope he's OK and really just in his zen place as he said!

Was there for 189... Gutted I'm missing this! Gonna be some 3 days!!!!

Lucas Hood

JustTheOne wrote: »

How is he been respectful?

Maybe that was a bad choice of words.

He's not slating Aldo on stage like he usually does.

You know what he's usually like , butting in on the questions asked to them.

JustTheOne

OmegaRed wrote: »

Bit of a strange one. All very calm and collected. Think that Aldo look very tired and 'old' looking. Conor very straight faced. Hope he's OK and really just in his zen place as he said!

Was there for 189... Gutted I'm missing this! Gonna be some 3 days!!!!

What you mean he looks straight faced?

froog

bit boring that. rockhold looked super wound up and emotional, weidman cool as a cucumber. no idea how chad and frankie feel not many questions for them.

as for McG, he seemed super serene, completely focused. aldo seemed tired and uninterested.

best quote - "now war is upon us" McG

All_in_Flynn

Conor looking very healthy so far. I wonder what weight he's at currently.

I was backing Rockhold but not so sure now. He defo looks on edge.

I'm backing Chad to KO Frankie at 5/1. I actually thought Frankie looked a little old at the conference there, anyone else agree?

That_Guy

Really interesting press conference. McGregor looked extremely calm and composed. I wonder if it's due to the weight cut process but he looked good and came across well.

I'm sure they're sick to the back teeth of each other and in fairness, the fight really needs no further promotion. It's been almost 1 year in the making and it's going to do crazy numbers.

I'm sure it'll be fireworks at the weigh in on Friday though.

Gamebred

Conor has 2 sides to him,the promoting **** talking side and a pyscho side,he showed the pyscho side when he stuffed chads last take down attempt and just had a look on his face saying no more playing around its over,He appears to be in this state the last week or I feel sorry for Aldo.

That_Guy

froog wrote: »

bit boring that. rockhold looked super wound up and emotional, weidman cool as a cucumber. no idea how chad and frankie feel not many questions for them.

To be fair, what more can you ask them? They've both beaten nearly everyone in the division. The winner is certainly in contention for a title shot pending on the Aldo/Conor fight.

I'm sure they don't mind being out of the spotlight at all. It's an absolute monster of a fight and I can't wait to see it.

Like most fights this weekend, it'll be lost in the kafuffle of 194's 2 title bouts. No huge media attention prior to the fight = less pressure and more focus on weight cut/fight preparations.

Bunny Colvin

Hardly a surprise that McGregor was more reserved - he's cutting weight. I don't feel like talking to people when I'm tired or hungry, never mind a press conference when you're both!

Lukker-

moneyman wrote: »

Just me or does Rockhold look very nervous and on edge?

Someone pointed out in the Embedded that the camera focused in on a book called "How to fix your brain", which is supposedly a book for dealing with anxiety. The camera then panned to his leg which was shaking. I wouldn't read into too much, any fighter says they get bad nerves before the fight. Weidman is probably well used to it at this stage but it's the biggest fight of Rockholds career so it's understandable IMo and won't have any bearing on the fight.

Gamebred

Conor is like hes in a different weight class even hunched down hes nearly the same height as Aldo

Jim Bob Scratcher

I was quite surprised at the bow of heads at the end and so was Dana by the looks of it :pac:

JustTheOne

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

I was quite surprised at the bow of heads at the end and so was Dana by the looks of it :pac:

Crouched down away from jose and bows head first??

Very unlike him:)

darced

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JustTheOne

darced wrote: »

Conor still looking pretty big in those clips, could be a brutal cut ahead of him.

And aldo looking quite lean.

All_in_Flynn

LOL

https://www.facebook.com/gary.harkin.35/posts/1187559797941169

Lukker-

darced wrote: »

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He's definitely a few pounds leaner IMO, there is a big difference between them though. I'd imagine Conor is between 160-165 here.

Swashbuckler

Very surprised to see them bowing to eachother, in particular Conor.

froog

Lukker- wrote: »

He's definitely a few pounds leaner IMO, there is a big difference between them though. I'd imagine Conor is between 160-165 here.

you think he's going to cut 20 pounds in 3 days??

he's around 155 there.

Knex*

http://twitter.com/andrewmcgahon_/status/674688885499105280/photo/1

ComfortKid

What weight do we think Conor and Aldo will be in the octagon?

ComfortKid

froog wrote:

you think he's going to cut 20 pounds in 3 days??

Didn't he cut 20lb in 3 days for the Mendes fight? He looked like death after it I know.

darced

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froog

ComfortKid wrote: »

Didn't he cut 20lb in 3 days for the Mendes fight? He looked like death after it I know.

no fighter cuts 20 pounds in 3 days. it's done over a week at least. even longer after this IV ban.

sc86

very strange from conor
whats he up to

Gamebred

froog wrote: »

no fighter cuts 20 pounds in 3 days. it's done over a week at least. even longer after this IV ban.

He cut 5kg (11lb) on the day of weigh ins v mendes so wouldnt say 20lb would be too far out of a guess.

JustTheOne

sc86 wrote: »

very strange from conor
whats he up to

We need an analysis of what he was at tonight:)