Conor McGregor thread (MMA Talk Only - Read 1st Post Before Posting)

Axwell · 02-04-2020 9:06am

Fall_Guy wrote: »

Just on this, JK has since confirmed that was April fools trickery, hasn't he?
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I believe that was the calendar tweet as opposed to the one saying theres another option to Gaethje but I havent been following his tweets religiously. But with Conors efforts to get people into lockdown it would be stupid for him to now step up to fight anyways.

The whole world is on lockdown with only people who are essential services allowed to go to work, UFC fighters certainly arent essential services and Dana and his greed is the only thing keeping this event a possibility. Tony trying to get Khabib stripped and saying he will fight regardless of the virus should have more sense himself but hes a bit out there at the best of times. Hopefully the event gets cancelled, the world gets back to normal and we see the fight on a few weeks/months time instead.

froog · 02-04-2020 9:28am

yeah khabib is 100% right. seemed like he even played ball for a bit before it got ridiculous. dana is a muppet for trying to guilt people into working and travelling through this thing. imagine if it was your boss?? you wouldn't be long telling them where to go.

Tazzimus · 02-04-2020 9:33am

Also thought I read somewhere that the UFC weren't actually testing anyone (makes sense seeing as Dana has a chubby for the Donald)

This fight should have been cancelled weeks ago when the pandemic got worse, but Dana gonna Dana. Man really is a scumbag.

The only thing Khabib is ducking is Covid-19, he's not afraid of Tony.
Neither Khabib or Tony are to blame for this attempt not going ahead.

Mellor · 02-04-2020 1:10pm

spix wrote: »

The virus is bad yes but the most recent winter flu is estimated to have killed 60,000 in USA

Ah come on man.
Rolling out this line, at this point, is pretty much definite trolling or conspiracy nutter.

Yes, Flu killed 29-59k this season. That’s it after centuries of spreading to every corner.
Covid killed 1000 people in the US yesterday. And it’s just getting started. Let’s see how the flu numbers are looking in a week

aloooof · 02-04-2020 1:56pm

Mellor wrote: »

Ah come on man.
Rolling out this line, at this point, is pretty much definite trolling or conspiracy nutter.

Yes, Flu killed 29-59k this season. That’s it after centuries of spreading to every corner.
Covid killed 1000 people in the US yesterday. And it’s just getting started. Let’s see how the flu numbers are looking in a week

It's fairly easy extrapolate. The flu has a 0.1% mortality rate and had ~60k deaths.

It's overly simplistic, but if the same number had been infected with Covid-19 (and lets remember it also has a higher R0 and longer incubation time than flu), with a CFR anywhere between 1% and 3.4%, it would produce 600k - ~2 million deaths.

But OP will still think "convenient excuse / I wants fights" etc.

Doff · 02-04-2020 7:19pm

aloooof wrote: »

It's fairly easy extrapolate. The flu has a 0.1% mortality rate and had ~60k deaths.

It's overly simplistic, but if the same number had been infected with Covid-19 (and lets remember it also has a higher R0 and longer incubation time than flu), with a CFR anywhere between 1% and 3.4%, it would produce 600k - ~2 million deaths.

But OP will still think "convenient excuse / I wants fights" etc.

People have tested positive with no symptoms so its highly likely that people have it and never get tested, so the exact mortality rate will be extremely difficult to calculate. Khabib and his team have obviously looked into this too and have made the decision that the mortality rate of fighting Tony is much higher than the mortality rate of COVID so they are playing it safe.

spix · 02-04-2020 11:06pm

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Axwell · 02-04-2020 11:16pm

spix wrote: »

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Lets keep it to MMA..theres a thread elsewhere for discussing stats and details on cov-19

Mellor · 02-04-2020 11:19pm

spix wrote: »

I'm not convinced its much worse than a flu that has no vaccine in terms of danger to people who generally wouldn't have been vaccinated.

Prior to a flu vaccine being developed, flu outbreaks were extremely deadly. Much worse than a random person not getting a shot today due to rate of spread.

Definitely not dangerous enough for a young healthy fighter to refuse to fight out of fear of it.

The risk that Khabib will die is tiny, but the risk that he spreads it isn’t much higher. There’s also the risk of the American healthcare system :pac:.

yourdeadwright · 03-04-2020 2:27pm

Mellor wrote: »

Prior to a flu vaccine being developed, flu outbreaks were extremely deadly. Much worse than a random person not getting a shot today due to rate of spread.

The risk that Khabib will die is tiny, but the risk that he spreads it isn’t much higher. There’s also the risk of the American healthcare system :pac:.

Car accidents kill something like 2 million a year and your age or underlying health doesn't matter , So Khabib better start walking ,

Legend_DIT · 03-04-2020 3:36pm

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Car accidents kill something like 2 million a year and your age or underlying health doesn't matter , So Khabib better start walking ,

Have car accidents caused half of the world to stay in their homes unless it's for essential travel, almost all sports to be cancelled, schools to be shut ? This is unprecedented times in living memory - criticising Khabib for following advice given by health professionals seems wrong to me.

spix · 03-04-2020 4:22pm

Legend_DIT wrote: »

Have car accidents caused half of the world to stay in their homes unless it's for essential travel, almost all sports to be cancelled, schools to be shut ? This is unprecedented times in living memory - criticising Khabib for following advice given by health professionals seems wrong to me.

Well Khabib did say in an interview yesterday he would definitely fight Tony on April 18th if given a location, nothing then about no, I'm staying isolated as per advice from health professionals. Then in another part of the interview when put on the spot about the private plane suggestion and if dana called tomorrow he kind of backtracked and seemed unsure. He just doesn't want to fight Tony. Pretty sure he wants to cash in on another mcgregor payday before fighting Tony, that was mentioned in the interview as well, if this fight doesn't happen, is there a chance he fights mcgregor again before Tony and Khabib didn't say no then started trash talking Conor.