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

I didn't say he was making fun of him,I said he was making a point like you said.

Khabib was talking crap, but he could have easily made his point without dragging his father in to it. He made a choice to make it as scummy as possible. Tell me a worse example of evil triumphing over good he could have used against Khabib? Because there are plenty he could have used that were better.

I remember a time when it was automatic ban if anyone said anything bad towards mcgregor, now it seems to be tolerated haha. Times are changing.

Conors done only good for specatle fights now. Maybe diaz 3 or khabib might come back to smash him once more, surely can't be serious bout Dustin fighting for title and Conor heals and gets another go at Dustin.

If the tweet was reasonable, why did he delete it?

I truly hope to god there isn't a Porier v McGregor 4 as his next fight.

If he's serious about staying fighting, he needs to fight a few rungs down and see what's what. If he goes chasing after the top 5 at this stage he's probably gonna get killed in there.

There's so only far a decent striking game can get you at that level in a division where other guys are bigger than you with better cardio and way better rounded skillsets.

I mean let's be real. His performance against Alvarez was legendary but he lost to Nate, and barely scraped a win against him in the re-match - and this was, genuinely, as prime as McGregor generally ever was.

Get's destroyed by Dustin in R2 in the first rematch, and was well on his way to the same outcome in the third fight before the break. Dustin is not some KO god either. He's very hittable and Alvarez, Gaethje, Hooker all went to war with him.

I don't think McGregor was "bad" in the first rematch. He had good moments, he was just outclassed and his skillset is subpar outside of the striking. He doesn't have the toughness of these guys, once he starts getting hit he falls apart, and when he's not in control he panics. He's not capable of a "war" against a real striker the way the likes of Dustin, Hooker, Gaejthe, Tony, etc are.

I just don't think he's cut out for lightweight. No real shame in it. I mean, someone like Sandhagen would probably get crapped on fighting at that weight as well. He excels at the lower weight for partially the same reason Conor did. Reach and power.

I don't like the whole "they're beating up smaller guys" argument either. It doesn't work for everyone and people have different sweet spots. Porier for example, miles better at LW than FW. Conor had a great spot in FW at a great moment in time.

He's not a bad fighter at LW either. People make out that he demolished a bum Alvarez but that's not true. Nate is a gatekeeper and has gotten worse but he's not awful either and wasn't at that point in time.

But I sincerely doubt McGregor could ever be anything beyond a gatekeeper at LW either at this stage. If he's smart he'll embrace it. I mean it's worked unbelievably well for Masvidal and Diaz. You also have decent fighters like Dan Hooker at LW who will never get a whiff of a belt but give people a great scrap.

Genuinely just not sure McGregor can ever be anything but a 50/50 fighter at LW at best and that's assuming he fights winnable fights. I give him almost zero chance fighting the top guys and I hope he doesn't go that way of insisting on big ranked fights and rack up a huge loss streak. I mean I wouldn't even be confident he could win Diaz 3.

The problem is his insistence on fighting only the best of the best. When you're not at that level yourself, inevitably you'll lose. I'd much rather see McGregor put on fun, decent fights with a few wins than see him get destroyed repeatedly by the likes of Porier, Justin, etc.

Are you actually still pretending people don't understand what the tweet meant? As in you think the issue is that people don't understand the point McGregor was making?

As I said, if it was a reasonable tweet, why did he delete it?

Why did man v manure also delete his post earlier in the thread where he had a hissy fit and called everyone losers?

Because neither of these things were reasonable. Using khabibs father to make his point was over the line, there is no getting away from that or obfuscation necessary.

Its endemic of his nature. It is what it is.

I can smell the sh*te off these posts through my phone. You're convincing nobody, simply because your point is garbage.

That's pretty much all there is to say. I won't be wasting any more time on you

Apologies, must have been a mod. Just trying to further put meat on the bones of a point, no big deal.

For the record I actually have no idea how to delete posts since this **** migration either tbh, maybe it's not even an option anymore.

How is he even top 8 at LW? He literally has one win at LW against Eddie Alvarez who was never elite and was shipped off to ONE FC.

His others wins out of FW have been at WW versus Nate (some would say he didn't win) and Cowboy (who was clearly over the hill)

If i'm honest I think Conor was good at FW, but he wasn't elite. He fought cans and his only good wins were against 2 week Mendes and skinny Dustin (who was knocked out with shots to the back of the head)

The Aldo fight was over before it even started because he got into his head so much that it made Aldo rush out with his chin in the air trying to land a haymaker on Conor!

These days Conor's mind games don't work. His left hand isn't the same at LW and his ground game is very ordinary. Don't forget mini Mendes held him down for 2 whole rounds.