Official Conor McGregor thread (part 5) *Read Mod Note in Post 1*

WanderlustIre

Anyone rate the volkov Lewis fight for a Co mainer

dulux99

WanderlustIre wrote: »

Anyone rate the volkov Lewis fight for a Co mainer

Absolutely not. Dogsh*t co main. It actually pisses me off whenever I'm reminded of it. Derrick Lewis is a terrible, terrible fighter in my opinion.
I'm praying for just one or two more big names, Pettis, Lee, Ferguson etc....I hate the thought of going transatlantic for a boxing style event with just one big fight at the top of the card

Lukker-

dulux99 wrote: »

Absolutely not. Dogsh*t co main. It actually pisses me off whenever I'm reminded of it. Derrick Lewis is a terrible, terrible fighter in my opinion.
I'm praying for just one or two more big names, Pettis, Lee, Ferguson etc....I hate the thought of going transatlantic for a boxing style event with just one big fight at the top of the card

Lee has said on Instagram that he has an opponent for 229 and he's started camp.

dulux99

Lukker- wrote: »

dulux99 wrote: »

Absolutely not. Dogsh*t co main. It actually pisses me off whenever I'm reminded of it. Derrick Lewis is a terrible, terrible fighter in my opinion.
I'm praying for just one or two more big names, Pettis, Lee, Ferguson etc....I hate the thought of going transatlantic for a boxing style event with just one big fight at the top of the card

Lee has said on Instagram that he has an opponent for 229 and he's started camp.

I thought he said he *didn't* have an opponent but is starting a camp anyway? I was assuming he was doing that incase one of the main event falls out

WanderlustIre

Lukker- wrote: »

Lee has said on Instagram that he has an opponent for 229 and he's started camp.

A lot of speculation on twitter regarding lee fighting. Think with such a big main, 1 or 2 match ups would smash PPvs again. Or maybe they are banking on Conor Khabib doing it alone and blooding fresh faced fighters that haven’t main carded often.

As far as I know Conor won’t have as much PR stuff this time round either so could be a bloody nose for the UFC

Autecher

WanderlustIre wrote: »

Anyone rate the volkov Lewis fight for a Co mainer

Lewis got a load of steroids injected into his back last week (USADA approved of course) so as hard as he hits normally with a bad back imagine him roided up!

Mellor

WanderlustIre wrote: »

So outside you being a friend of Conor? Is your opinion ever gonna be non biased.

I genuinely don't know how to reply to this. What exactly have I said that has offended you?
A fighter's first time in the 4th and 5th round is not the time to practise his weaknesses. Do you really think pointing that out makes me biased? I find that odd, especially since you said you train yourself.

Autecher

WanderlustIre wrote: »

A lot of speculation on twitter regarding lee fighting. Think with such a big main, 1 or 2 match ups would smash PPvs again. Or maybe they are banking on Conor Khabib doing it alone and blooding fresh faced fighters that haven’t main carded often.

As far as I know Conor won’t have as much PR stuff this time round either so could be a bloody nose for the UFC

They are banking on the main event alone. Conor won't allow anyone else to get ppv points as part of his new deal so they can't have any other fighter who would expect that.

WanderlustIre

cliggg wrote: »

They are banking on the main event alone. Conor won't allow anyone else to get ppv points as part of his new deal so they can't have any other fighter who would expect that.

Yeah I get that but they need to think of fans also who are paying high end product. Volkov and Lewis just won't catch imagination of alot

John_D80

weldoninhio wrote: »

Khabib used the Iaquinta fight to get some stand up practice, nothing more.

This makes a whole heap of sense. A championship fight in the UFC is probably the only place he could get stand up practice.

He should really think about leaving his current gym, whatever it is, and consider joining one with a few UFC/Bellator/ONE fighters so he can finally get stand up practice without having to rely on opponents giving him a workout.

dave1982

This fcking place is mental

Sofiztikated

WanderlustIre wrote: »

Yeah I get that but they need to think of fans also who are paying high end product. Volkov and Lewis just won't catch imagination of alot

With Conor being a fan of Mayweather, and the way boxing promotion works, his fights will go the way boxing has. There's no "thinking of the fans" when there's many $$$$$$$$$ to be made.

Even with a loss, he'll outearn Khabib and the rest of the card added together.

WanderlustIre

John_D80 wrote: »

This makes a whole heap of sense. A championship fight in the UFC is probably the only place he could get stand up practice.

He should really think about leaving his current gym, whatever it is, and consider joining one with a few UFC/Bellator/ONE fighters so he can finally get stand up practice without having to rely on opponents giving him a workout.

He works standup and striking with Shanavazov and AKA also. He needs to get better but he will with time.

Seen Anderson Silva weighed in behind Khabib last night

Autecher

WanderlustIre wrote: »

Yeah I get that but they need to think of fans also who are paying high end product. Volkov and Lewis just won't catch imagination of alot

I'd say they're hoping it will be the same as the Mayweather-McGregor card, nobody cared about any other fight but the main event and it was a huge success. My guess is they're expecting 1.5 million buys.

John_D80

WanderlustIre wrote: »

He works standup and striking with Shanavazov and AKA also.

I know. I was being sarcastic in response to one of the most unbelievably silly posts I’ve ever read.

Rory28

dave1982 wrote: »

This fcking place is mental

I would visit this thread often enough but never post. This place is a bastion of sanity compared to mmafighting, bloodyelbow etc.

hewhoscares

WanderlustIre wrote: »

cliggg wrote: »

They are banking on the main event alone. Conor won't allow anyone else to get ppv points as part of his new deal so they can't have any other fighter who would expect that.

Yeah I get that but they need to think of fans also who are paying high end product. Volkov and Lewis just won't catch imagination of alot

McGregor reaches that big a casual base that he sells whatever is on the card. The extra 1.5-2m people who buy this are buying for the main event.

The 150k hardcores who want to see Cerrone or Woodley or Edgar etc on the undercard are buying anyways. But there are advantages to giving exposure to fighters you want to make stars like they tried with Cody on a Conor card, and Conor on 178 before Jones pulled out.

jammiedodgers

Can you imagine if Conor submitted him? Internet would have a meltdown!

Lukker-

WanderlustIre wrote: »

He works standup and striking with Shanavazov and AKA also. He needs to get better but he will with time.

Seen Anderson Silva weighed in behind Khabib last night

He's been with AKA for years and his fundamentals have shown no signs of improving. Rockhold is the same, he has some good kicking technique and a decent right hook, but his head movement, footwork and defense are absolutely awful. So much so that's he for outside looks to help him improve with Henri Hooft and Jason Parillo.

WanderlustIre

Lukker- wrote: »

He's been with AKA for years and his fundamentals have shown no signs of improving. Rockhold is the same, he has some good kicking technique and a decent right hook, but his head movement, footwork and defense are absolutely awful. So much so that's he for outside looks to help him improve with Henri Hooft and Jason Parillo.

True but if he is being directed to there which he clearly is he should grow a pair and walk

Autecher

dave1982 wrote: »

This fcking place is mental

I've said it before and now I'll say it again. This thread is madder than the Louise O' Neill one in After Hours.

billybonkers

cliggg wrote: »

I've said it before and now I'll say it again. This thread is madder than the Louise O' Neill one in After Hours.

Woah, woah, woah! Actually at times yes

dulux99

I don’t really get the idea that this thread is “mad” as some people say. The stuff said on here is the typical stuff you see people arguing over in a pub on a Saturday night, about whichever sport they follow.
 
When it comes to sport, people like to debate and argue amongst themselves. It’s part of the fun. The debates/arguments can get a bit heated at times but…so what? It’s part and parcel of following sports. I don’t get why people act like they’ve just stumbled into a thread where people are threatening to behead each other.

Autecher

dulux99 wrote: »

I don’t really get the idea that this thread is “mad” as some people say. The stuff said on here is the typical stuff you see people arguing over in a pub on a Saturday night, about whichever sport they follow.

When it comes to sport, people like to debate and argue amongst themselves. It’s part of the fun. The debates/arguments can get a bit heated at times but…so what? It’s part and parcel of following sports. I don’t get why people act like they’ve just stumbled into a thread where people are threatening to behead each other.

Well I continue to post here so I do like the thread. I meant mad in an entertaining way. I compared it to the Louise O' Neill one because many people on that actually make the effort to follow the life of someone who they claim to hate (via social media, not actual stalking!) then log on to a website to post about it and say how this makes them even more terrible than they are already! Some people here obviously do that (though not all thankfully) but when I call it mad I'm referring to pre-naming Conor's babies, pages and pages of conversations about affairs with Liverpudlian women, Conor on the run from Irish gangsters.. etc...
I don't participate in that stuff but it amuses me to read it because it's so mad.

WanderlustIre

dulux99 wrote: »

I don’t really get the idea that this thread is “mad” as some people say. The stuff said on here is the typical stuff you see people arguing over in a pub on a Saturday night, about whichever sport they follow.
 
When it comes to sport, people like to debate and argue amongst themselves. It’s part of the fun. The debates/arguments can get a bit heated at times but…so what? It’s part and parcel of following sports. I don’t get why people act like they’ve just stumbled into a thread where people are threatening to behead each other.

I was just thinking if this is considered mad they would definitely wanna stay in doors

froog

WanderlustIre wrote:

Do you believe Nate’s more efficient on the ground then khabib? I believe with everything that has happened khabib will want to finish this early.

Khabib is not good at finishing fights though. look at his record, vastly inferior fighters to Conor went the distance with him.

Ultimate Seduction

Never knew Conor took a class at 10th planet. Eddie says Conor is lethal on the mat. That was a few years ago too.

Mellor

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Never knew Conor took a class at 10th planet. Eddie says Conor is lethal on the mat. That was a few years ago too.

From memory so done details might be slightly off, Conor was in LA for UFC stuff. He walked into a random gym to do some bag work. Turns out Eddie Bravo was there teaching a class, came over said hello, yada yada. Conor went and got his grappling gear on, cane over to the mats and asked who his best guys were and jumped in with them.
Eddie spoke very highly of his jiu jitsu afterwards, and mentioned that no top UFC fighter do at his gyms but they don't want randoms making them look bad.

WanderlustIre

Mellor wrote: »

From memory so done details might be slightly off, Conor was in LA for UFC stuff. He walked into a random gym to do some bag work. Turns out Eddie Bravo was there teaching a class, came over said hello, yada yada. Conor went and got his grappling gear on, cane over to the mats and asked who his best guys were and jumped in with them.
Eddie spoke very highly of his jiu jitsu afterwards, and mentioned that no top UFC fighter do at his gyms but they don't want randoms making them look bad.

https://youtu.be/Owsors1j-HE

ricero

The Ufc 230 undercard is way more stacked.

Its a pity they couldnt of put the Brunson Vs Adesanya fight on this undercard.