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

rob316 · 30-10-2020 12:10pm

If you make the weight you can fight at that weight, its that simple. McGregor turned himself into a corpse to make FW, Darren Till killed himself to make WW when he's clearly a middleweight. I really don't think you gain much of an advantage fighting against smaller guys as you have put your body through some serious change to make the weight.

I've cut weight for a fight in a weight class I shouldn't have been fighting in, its ****ing awful, I was gassed so quickly into the fight.

weldoninhio · 30-10-2020 12:20pm

eagle eye wrote: »

No I did not. I just gave examples of disparity in my opinion, I never guessed a weight.

"I'd guess Khabib was 175"

yeah you did, it's literally there in black and white.

eagle eye · 30-10-2020 12:30pm

weldoninhio wrote:

yeah you did, it's literally there in black and white.

I said IF Gaethje was a certain weight that I'd guess Khabib was a weight.

How can you not grasp that?

LollipopJimmy · 30-10-2020 12:32pm

eagle eye wrote: »

I said IF Gaethje was a certain weight that I'd guess Khabib was a weight.

How can you not grasp that?

Because it makes no sense.

Tazzimus · 30-10-2020 12:42pm

Anyway,

Do we reckon Conor v Dustin 2 goes the same way as the first one?
Both have made big improvements and Dustin seems a lot more durable than he was at FW, he's still very hittable though.

eagle eye · 30-10-2020 12:45pm

LollipopJimmy wrote:

Because it makes no sense.

You are making no sense.

LollipopJimmy · 30-10-2020 12:51pm

eagle eye wrote: »

You are making no sense.

Excuse you, I nearly always make sense sometimes

Starlord_01 · 30-10-2020 1:43pm

Anyway, back to McGregor. He looks in great shape in the pictures he has been posting, think he's training out in Portugal with at Colin Byrne's Shinobi Academy.

simongurnick · 30-10-2020 2:22pm

Tazzimus wrote: »

Anyway,

Do we reckon Conor v Dustin 2 goes the same way as the first one?
Both have made big improvements and Dustin seems a lot more durable than he was at FW, he's still very hittable though.

Yeah, i think he's a dream match for Conor. Dustin has improved for sure since the first fight, but as you say, he gets hit too easily.

Conor Rd 2.

Nigzcurran · 30-10-2020 3:15pm

Would be amazing if it actually went ahead, what are the chances of it in January?

xtal191 · 30-10-2020 3:28pm

Tazzimus wrote: »

Anyway,

Do we reckon Conor v Dustin 2 goes the same way as the first one?
Both have made big improvements and Dustin seems a lot more durable than he was at FW, he's still very hittable though.

I'd be very very surprised if McGregor didn't win a similar fashion, first or second round KO imo

simongurnick · 30-10-2020 4:41pm

Conor on social media today saying he is all set to fight at lightweight, thanks to FAST of course!
Looks like the ball is still rolling for this fight.

Eircom_Sucks · 30-10-2020 4:58pm

wish the UFC would just announce it already

derfderf · 01-11-2020 10:19am

Eircom_Sucks wrote: »

wish the UFC would just announce it already

Dana said they've both signed.

dave1982 · 01-11-2020 1:16pm

https://youtu.be/CqQlkRSD_VA

Great fan made documentary on khabib conor. I think it's better than anything ufc or espn could put out

Zero-Cool · 01-11-2020 10:19pm

Conor doing a q & a on Twitter at the moment. Some good stuff in there like as long ufc give him the dates, he would fight top 5 guys at lw by end of q1 '21. Said he is concentrating on LW next year.

Some gems then like this.

https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1323003578789842946?s=19

Still Ill · 01-11-2020 11:24pm

That Jeremy Stephens initial tweet was hilarious tbf

Doff · 02-11-2020 10:03am

Remember that time Conor said he would fight 3 times in 2020? I'll believe it when I see it.

fitzparker · 02-11-2020 10:14am

Q&A was decent

its that kind of stuff he needs to do to reconnect with the fans and get a buzz going, it seemed like he enjoyed it aswell.

He needs all he can to reclaim the top selling PPV the Khabib V Gaethje did...... 675k

Liamo_mu · 02-11-2020 10:27am

Doff wrote: »

Remember that time Conor said he would fight 3 times in 2020? I'll believe it when I see it.

I'm fairness to him Covid did kind of ruin any plans and you can see he has been trying to get fights. Dana ain't easy to work wit. Not that Conor is either mind.

But yeah he will never fight 3+ times in a year cause the UFC are too slow to book top fights even when the fighters want them.

Starlord_01 · 02-11-2020 10:38am

fitzparker wrote: »

Q&A was decent

its that kind of stuff he needs to do to reconnect with the fans and get a buzz going, it seemed like he enjoyed it aswell.

He needs all he can to reclaim the top selling PPV the Khabib V Gaethje did...... 675k

https://www.tapology.com/search/mma-event-figures/ppv-pay-per-view-buys-buyrate

fitzparker · 02-11-2020 12:21pm

Starlord_01 wrote: »

https://www.tapology.com/search/mma-event-figures/ppv-pay-per-view-buys-buyrate

That's the joke,

Dana was creaming himself that 254 was trending to smash the current PPV record when it didn't even make the top 20 of all time and only 5th highest in 2020.

Conor's records will never be broke

JJayoo · 02-11-2020 8:36pm

fitzparker wrote: »

That's the joke,

Dana was creaming himself that 254 was trending to smash the current PPV record when it didn't even make the top 20 of all time and only 5th highest in 2020.

Conor's records will never be broke

It was never gonna do a big but rate being on at that time, just didn't suit the US market

US2 · 03-11-2020 1:42am

Dana said... that they had both signed and it was a done deal on Sat night

https://twitter.com/DustinPoirier/status/1323400307569790976?s=19

LollipopJimmy · 03-11-2020 10:25am

US2 wrote: »

Dana said... that they had both signed and it was a done deal on Sat night

https://twitter.com/DustinPoirier/status/1323400307569790976?s=19

Saw that and he deleted it not long after. Hard to know if he was told to remove it or just felt like a sap

Liamo_mu · 03-11-2020 10:29am

Honestly Dana takes the absolute piss when trying to make fights. I get it is probably hard to work out the details but consistently he seems to waste months to organise fights when the fighters themselves are always pushing for it to be sooner.

LollipopJimmy · 03-11-2020 10:43am

Liamo_mu wrote: »

Honestly Dana takes the absolute piss when trying to make fights. I get it is probably hard to work out the details but consistently he seems to waste months to organise fights when the fighters themselves are always pushing for it to be sooner.

Cant imagine Conor is the easiest to negotiate with

US2 · 03-11-2020 12:24pm

From Porriers tweet it looks like they sent him a contract to fight someone else. Maybe they want McGregor V Gathje

derfderf · 04-11-2020 12:25am

US2 wrote: »

From Porriers tweet it looks like they sent him a contract to fight someone else. Maybe they want McGregor V Gathje

I took it as them lowballing him again. Same thing happened for the Ferguson fight.

H8GHOTI · 04-11-2020 11:22am

What happened to McGregor being the money fight? Red panty night?

I remember Mendes & Diaz, going from like $40k up to $500k. Then Alvarez was reported to have fought on his normal contract. Cerrone too I think got his standard pay. Disclosed anyway, PPV might be different story.

I wondered why Mendes & Diaz got those rises. They would have taken the fight for less I say. UFC seem to have changed tack on this after Diaz held them over a barrel for the rematch.

Tough spot for Poirier. Refuse the fight because you think you deserve more & miss out on all the other benefits.

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