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

Option 3 would be madness given an injury.

Ah sure loads of the great fighters in MMA and boxing are total dicks.

Matt Hughes is a wife beater, Tito Ortiz too, so is Mayweather, Mike Tyson is a rapist. Fury is a homophobe and an anti Semite. As is Manny. The list is endless really. Its not a sport where I look to for moral guidance.

Poirier 2 was surely more exciting than the Cerrone fight?

Poirier 3 was shaping up to be quite the beating as I've said so I think in many ways he's lucky the ankle/leg injury stopped Poirier doing real damage to him as the gas tank continued to empty.

We all know Mcgregor if he makes it back will have a warm up fight, possibly with someone like Ferguson who is a name but on the wane in a big way and is a pretty stationary target for him to pop off at and look impressive dismantling and then he will be in the next title match as long as its DP holding the belt, if not they can just come back and do Poirier 4 right off the bat but he would surely still be better served having a tune up fight and actually occupying the cage for a couple of rounds.

hard to know where he goes from here, and hard to care either....

the loss to Diaz just f'ed him up, messed with his head, put whatever career gameplan he had out the window, and thats 5 years ago...

4-4 in the last 6 years MMA, and still we watch, and still we hope

I'm from both West Dublin and working class area, and think it's absolutely impossible to defend a huge amount of his behaviour in recent years. I'm not sure there is much logic to the point you're getting at.

I wouldn't pay much attention to NSCA , They didn't even know Bisping was blind in one eye , He fought multiply times with zero vision

Ah its all a bit of sport. People take MMA WAY too seriously. Quite enjoyed the trash talk in the build up, big cheer for the power strut when he got into the Octagon, entertaining 5 minutes and then we got to see someone with his leg snapped in 2 trash talking on the mat and then doing a Tony Montana type exit on a strecther.

Give me that once in a while over 25 minutes of wrestling to a boring decision. Someone mentioned GSP earlier. His career post Matt Serra was a snoozefest. Never drew a dime.

That said I love a good technical high skilled match up aswell but not every fight.

Yeah many people like me had never even heard of MMA until he came along....It’s great crack...Love your Masvidal...I understand I’m not a real/proper fan but the trash talking/entertainment from the lads is mighty....I believe from analysts Khabib is maybe the greatest - wouldn’t watch if he was out my back garden...I understand what others are saying about his behaviour though....Your man Bisping cracks me up...

Your missing the point, he isn't winning fights, the trash talk needs to be backed up. Couple of more losses and it would lose any confidence fans have in him.

He peaked when he knocked out Aldo. He’s record since has been average. It’s a savage sport which takes its toll on the body. He has more than enough money made to support his family for the rest of their days.

So Dana claiming Mcgregor has "chronic arthritis" in both ankles.

Err, thats not good.

His next fight will sell at least 1.5m PPVs and it wouldn't surprise me if it hit 2m. He's could make it in to the perfect hollywood 'comeback' story. He's not Floyd Mayweather where people tuned in to see if he'd be beaten for the first time. McGregor had losses before he even entered the UFC. He just trebled the buys of card featuring Israel Adesanya and Nate Diaz, probably the UFC's 2 biggest stars after McGregor. He could lose his next 2 and still be comfortably the biggest draw.

He's broken 2m once, the fight with Khabib. Now he may break it again but I wouldn't be so sure it will be anytime soon. He's not Floyd in that he's not undefeated but if you don't think theres a pretty significant similarity in people buying in whether they love or hate the guy to either see his hand get raised or his face get smashed I would have to disagree, he will never have the pulling power of Mayweather at his peak but for MMA he is light years ahead of the pack, if he continues to lose its only going one way thats obvious.

His aura is gone now which was a big part of his selling point. His ability to create a stir for a fight is still there of course but it was markedly different this time around with his style possibly turning viewers off and the manner of the defeat coupled with the antics post fight, which continue today are pushing him further from the centre.

His average PPV in the UFC is probably somewhere between 1.4 and 1.6 million? I know Aldo was around the 1.4, Eddie and Cowboy were similar, 1.3 1.4?

The Diaz 2 fight did 1.6 and DP 2 did around 1.6 also, think the global buys for DP 3 brought it up to 1.8 after Dana said it was trending at 2m so in that sense it did worse than they expected. People do get tired of the same show generally speaking and without wins and belts to back it up there is a finite amount of time people will continue to shell out. I'm not saying if he doesn't win his next 2 its over for him as a PPV star, but once he is on a 5 fight losing streak its pretty hard to keep selling redemption stories and that something is going to be different next time etc as he fights lower and lower calibre of opponent.