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

Factual details, or his factual details?

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The pictures where he is strapping up his ankle?

Just reading Firas Zahabi's comments on McGregor. Can't disagree.

“McGregor is so down,” Zahabi said. “He’s so angry and jealous of Poirier. He will say and do anything to try and insult Poirier, try to take away this moment off Poirier. Listen, Poirier has beaten you. He’s a better fighter than you. He will be remembered as a better fighter than you.

“Whatever beef you have there, you can’t take it and start threatening to kill each other and then start threatening each other’s children, team members and whatnot. That’s just animal behavior. Then to say what he said about Poirier’s wife – it’s disgusting.”

“I think McGregor suffers from narcissism – heavily, heavily narcissistic,” Zahabi said. “And unfortunately for him, he can’t see that he’s at fault. That’s why he needs a true friend or family member to step in and kind of sober him up a little bit because honestly, all he did was embarrass himself. You’ll never see a fighter behave like this.

“He’s the only guy that even if he loses, he can’t take it. He can’t look in the mirror and say, ‘You know what? That wasn’t my fight. It didn’t go my way. I lost. Here’s what I have to do to improve. This is how I better myself.’ No, no, no – in his mind, ‘It was a freak accident. There was no check. You were going to get a beating in the second round.’ It’s just nonsense. Pure nonsense. Not only has his skills as a fighter dipped, but also his character.”

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McGregor's career seems to be following a very similar path to Mike Tyson's in that when he had that aura of being invincible he tore through the divisions showcasing great skills and demolishing opponents. A lot of fighters looked beaten even before stepping in the ring. Both kept their aura following what looked to be shock defeats and excuses where made that they had gone off the rails outside of the ring/cage(Tyson/McGregor) or the step up in weight(McGregor) helped throw up the freak defeat.

The next loss for both seemed to be when the real falloff happened, McGregor put up a good fight against Khabib and coped better than most on the ground but also got put down by a shot and Khabib hasn't put many down. In reality while McGregor defended well on the ground in that fight and delayed the inevitable for while he didn't show anything to make him standout.

I think Poirier was very confident he could handle McGregor going into the 2nd fight and put him away fairly easily, going into the 3rd he was even more confident. He started slowly enough to figure what McGregor's plan would be and as soon as he upped the pressure he hurt McGregor and forced him into the clinch and guillotine. Sure it was a bad way for the fight to end and there's no way it was a 10-8 round but I don't see any way McGregor was going to win that fight if the leg break hadn't happened.

With the aura around him gone, fighters will be queuing up to take a shot at McGregor and I think we'll see a steep decline over the next few fights if he comes back.

I think you're mixing up sporting achievements with popularity achievements. We've had lots of World Champs. McGregor's record, for example is 28-6. Steve Collins, the boxer has 39-3 and has won both WBO middle-weight and WBO super-middle belts. Not to mention Rory McIlroy, Brian O'Driscoll, Katie Taylor, Ken Doherty, Robbie Keane etc who all achieved greatness on the world stage.

Conor came into a relatively new and growing sport. The level of professionalism is much higher now in MMA than it was 10 years ago and McGregor is not able to keep up.

It's been raised a few times and ignored.

McGregor's excuses make no sense.

Some of the recent comments on this echo what I was coming here to ask. I don't follow MMA too closely but from what I've see Conor dominated the lower division as he was quite big even though he had to cut weight. His natural talent and size got him through the opponents.

When he stepped up into a more level playing field where his size advantage was nullified it seems that his talent was not enough. Would it therefore be fair to say that his coach and training is not where it should be or is his non-sporting escapades catching up with him. He seems to be focused and driven still - just wondering if he was winning in spite of Kavanagh instead of because of him?

Does Kavanagh have any other top rated guys in his gym?

Why should he retire?? He still has maybe 5 years fighting at the top level in front of him if he trains well and doesn’t go off the rails again. He makes about 10/15mil per fight, and has the goal to reclaim glory as motivation. Not to mention his other business’s will do better the more fights he is winning. There is still no other fighter who generates the buzz of last week main event, it would be a shame if he stopped giving us that. He has said many times he will never retire and fighting is his passion. (Obviously he will retire 1 day when Mother Nature catches up with him)

McGregor is literally broken, and his aura is well and truly gone.

He doesn't know if he should even trash talk anymore. Wasnt he 'nice, respectful McGregor' for Cormier 2? Now he's a nastly little knacker again.

He lost his focus and his hunger, which is understandable to an extent. He has a life of unimaginable luxury now, and those Marvin Hagler silk sheets.

I think he's lost a lot of support, and interest is waining. It would really be a tremendous effort to come back from here at 33 and make something happen. I don't think he has it in him.

No, Kavanagh went from being a complete unknown coach to being a highly regarded and famous one purely because of McGregors fame.

The reality is Conor already joined his gym as a really good striker, and at that time, it was much more common for people to come from a grappling background than striking.

The only other really highly regarded fighter he coached was Gunnar Nelson, and he, like McGregor was just a phenom and a natural at grappling and already had a Karate background. He did most of his training in Iceland without John, and got his black belt from Renzo Gracie, instead of John.

The biggest problem with SBG is a lack of a high level striking coach.