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

Fantomas9mm

Just to confirm , it’s approx 5am Irish time when the main event starts ?

akelly02

Fantomas9mm wrote: »

Just to confirm , it’s approx 5am Irish time when the main event starts ?

Yes

chopperbyrne

I'll be doing what I always do with UFC events, record it, get up at 7 without checking my phone, and watch five hours of content in about two hours by fast forwarding through everything but the fights.

Whelo79

chopperbyrne wrote: »

I'll be doing what I always do with UFC events, record it, get up at 7 without checking my phone, and watch five hours of content in about two hours by fast forwarding through everything but the fights.

I just can't do that with any big sporting event that I have interest in. Knowing it's on/over and that millions already know the result would kill me. I just have to watch big events like this live.

froog

So there is a legal streaming option, espn+. You need to buy a year subscription as well though. Anyone have it, is it worth it? Would i get superbowl with it for example?

chopperbyrne

Whelo79 wrote: »

I just can't do that with any big sporting event that I have interest in. Knowing it's on/over and that millions already know the result would kill me. I just have to watch big events like this live.

Being a basketball fan, I'm well used to not watching live. Or when Bravo used to air the PPVs the next day.

AlmightyCushion

Whelo79 wrote: »

I just can't do that with any big sporting event that I have interest in. Knowing it's on/over and that millions already know the result would kill me. I just have to watch big events like this live.

My problem is it is second nature for me to look at the google news articles on my phone when I wake up. I do it when I'm half asleep in the morning. After a UFC event there is always an article in there that spoils the main event. Plus, I think it's more exciting watching it live so I'm staying up for this.

walshb

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

My problem is it is second nature for me to look at the google news articles on my phone when I wake up. I do it when I'm half asleep in the morning. After a UFC event there is always an article in there that spoils the main event. Plus, I think it's more exciting watching it live so I'm staying up for this.

Yes. Next to impossible not to stumble across spoilers unless you get up and do not at all look at fone screen..

cletus

I also usually watch events the morning after. I used to get up to watch live, but too old for that racket now.

I don't find it too hard not to look at my phone in the morning, but then I don't have any social media accounts or anything, so nothing I feel like I need to check. Having said that, I'll set an alarm for 3am, and see how I'm feeling when it goes off

I find I have to stay up to watch it or watch highlights next day.

Setting the alarm and waking in middle of night doesn't work for me. Not really interested in that sort of violence waking out of a sleep at 4 or 5 am.

Still Ill

Stayed up late last night to acclimatise. Slept til 2.30PM. You better believe I'm ready to go the distance! :pac:

Tazzimus

I'll catch the highlights in the morning, getting too old to be staying up that late, the next days a write off then.

Homelander

I'll just go to bed and turn off data/wifi on my phone so I don't get alerts and watch it when I get up.

raclle

Is everyone here staying up for the fight or getting some sleep beforehand?

spix

raclle wrote: »

Is everyone here staying up for the fight or getting some sleep beforehand?

Just woke up :cool:

sonofenoch

Tazzimus wrote: »

I'll catch the highlights in the morning, getting too old to be staying up that late, the next days a write off then.

Can you write off a Sunday.....during a pandemic lockdown?:cool:

simongurnick

raclle wrote: »

Is everyone here staying up for the fight or getting some sleep beforehand?

I'm staying up....but I live in the Est timezone....although I still considered a nap! Just need to pace out my drinking now. Finishing up the wine after dinner, then into the beers and land on a few guinness as conor makes the ring walk. Almost grabbed a bottle of proper earlier but whiskey gives me an awful hangover

Nigzcurran

I’m turning the phone off before hitting the hay and downloading the fight card in the morning, I’ll sit down with the missus with a few sneaky ciders after lunch and have a stomach like a washing machine watching Conor, absolutely love watching him fight and hoping it’s a cracker but not too stressful. PS hope gamebred and wonderfullife are watching somewhere and in a good place. Peace out, Nigz

Naked Lepper

have the NL site loaded but still says stream starting shortly, i guess we will need to wait till 3?

Qwertyminger

On ESPN+ it's always streaming season.

I thought that was much less close than they called it.

Axwell

Lads use the fight thread for any discussion on the event..

Tilikum17

Just looking at Conor’s record. For the 6 fights he’s had in his proper weight class he’s actually lost half his fights. 6 fights 3 loses. 2 of those lads are journey man imo (cowboy & Diaz) Conor made his name in the featherweight division when he first started out. A division he should never have been in. Losing a ridiculous amount of weight just so he could fight lads way smaller than himself.

He’s been found out tonight. He’s marketed himself incredibly well though & fair play to him.

Ush1

Ush1 wrote: »

Have a feeling Dustin might surprise a few people this time.

Aged well.

derfderf

Tilikum17 wrote: »

Losing a ridiculous amount of weight just so he could fight lads way smaller than himself.

You would wonder how he gets away with it, and why nobody else does it?
Like Khabib definitely belongs at 155. Who cares if his liver shuts down from cutting weight.

The Nal

Tilikum17 wrote: »

Just looking at Conor’s record. For the 6 fights he’s had in his proper weight class he’s actually lost half his fights. 6 fights 3 loses. 2 of those lads are journey man imo (cowboy & Diaz) Conor made his name in the featherweight division when he first started out. A division he should never have been in. Losing a ridiculous amount of weight just so he could fight lads way smaller than himself.

He’s been found out tonight. He’s marketed himself incredibly well though & fair play to him.

Agree with nearly all that, not so sure hes been found out though as much as the erratic last few years is catching up with him. Poirier has had 14 fights at LW in 6 years since his loss to McGregor. And only lost two. Incredible record.

McGregors has had 6 fights in 5 years since Aldo. Can maybe pin point the first mistake as going from FW to WW in what? 75 days? Ben all over the place since then. Only wins since then against two journeymen and a midget whos never beaten anyone good.

JoeExotic81

Thanks to the Mayweather fight, we'll never know what his true potential was.

There's no doubt his legacy as a true great takes a big hit after last night.

Unless he goes again and tries to work through the LW division and get 2 or 3 wins and a title, he'll have those question marks over his true talent.

I personally don't think it was as simple as a bigger man bullying a smaller division. Most of the others he was competing against were doing the exact same.

But you can't argue with the stats.

One of the true legends business wise. Talent not quite up there, but could have been.

I think he should get out now, go while the brain is not damaged. He has made good money.

The Rooster

Tilikum17 wrote: »

Conor made his name in the featherweight division when he first started out. A division he should never have been in. Losing a ridiculous amount of weight just so he could fight lads way smaller than himself.
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What utter nonsense !

Do you not watch any other weight classes? Do you not watch boxing?
Cutting weight is part of the game, and if you make weight legitimately then you’ve every right to fight at that weight.
Should Dustin never have fought at featherweight either ???
Many of the people Conor fought at FW were also cutting weight, like Dustin. To say it’s some how illegitimate is just pure nonsense.

Anniepowaa

The Rooster wrote: »

What utter nonsense !

Do you not watch any other weight classes? Do you not watch boxing?
Cutting weight is part of the game, and if you make weight legitimately then you’ve every right to fight at that weight.
Should Dustin never have fought at featherweight either ???
Many of the people Conor fought at FW were also cutting weight, like Dustin. To say it’s some how illegitimate is just pure nonsense.

there are far more weight classes in boxing

walshb

The big question now is does Conor knuckle down and train hard for a return, or go off the rails and not train and then come back expecting success?

I can’t see him leaving it like this, losing so cleanly against a man he beat..

Up to him

He’s not going to come back a completely new fighter. He is what he is..

But he could come back very well prepared, and go for the trilogy..

It would still be a 50/50 fight.