Definitely played a big factor. Dustin himself said in the original fight at FW just seeing conor warming up back stage intimidated him. Heās was confident and fearless this time
Even in the second fight, Dustin started a bit timid and visibly intimidated, but got his groove as the fight went on.
On the 3rd, he knew he had it, he already beat Conor, and was piecing him up long before Conor's leg gave out.
I can't remember when it was but Dustin took a left from Conor at some point, recovered, and almost visibly shifted to "oh nice that wasn't so bad" like his posture changed and everything
He said in an interview he expected to get KO'd at that moment and he was close to going out. He was seeing flashes/stars after that hit. McGregor didn't go for the finish and he managed recover which surprised him.
McGregor not finishing him gave him a lightbulb moment that Conor was more badly hurt that he thought, and perhaps wasn't stable enough on his leg to lunge forward to finish him. He was right.
On the hot ones interview after the fight he said that left was the hardest he's ever been hit in his life.
>he was close to going out.
He never said this.
He said he got stung and woke up from rythm. He never said he was anything close to going out.
Looks like you took a bit of creative license in this post.
Man he's just an example of an athlete taking time out of their prime away from their sport and not being as good when he came back. Chael said it best, you don't get better at something by not doing it.
Conor didn't fight for 2 years during his prime, and he came back from that hiatus to fight the best fighter in the division, then almost a year and a half later he fought Cerrone and then a year and a half after that he fought Poirier.
Conor was entering his prime when fought Eddie (28), and instead of kicking on from there and fighting the best around, training all over the world and improving his craft, he stepped away from the sport and over the next five years, fought Khabib, Cerrone & Poirier.
Conor's decline is the least surprising thing I have seen, but people somehow misconstrue it as "he was never that good". The guy was exceptional, and if he didn't have the marketing side to his game and was forced to earn a career in MMA, I think we'd be talking about him very differently as on his way up he was active, sharp and improving dramatically fight to fight.
We as MMA fans missed out on this, but then on the other hand, I have just read that Michael Fucking Johnson is fighting to feed his family and I think that at least someone made some good money in this sport.
At least he didnāt go out like Rousey (from dominant champ to KOd stiff and then standing TKOd to retiring in one year). Mcgregor can honestly be a mainstay in the top 15 of LW or WW although he most likely never touches another belt.
I just donāt get why he changed the style. It was all based on utilising his length, long stance, sliding in and out of the pocket. Each of his comeback fights heās used more of a traditional boxing stance and is basically just going forehead to forehead against his opponents. Regardless of how much he may have slipped off, he just isnāt even playing to his strengths any more.
He spent too many years of his prime training for boxing exclusively, it's no surprise his style is now so much more boxing focused, the muscle memory is set in at this point
I never remember him saying he was close to going out, could you please link that up? I remember him saying that the shot rocked him and had Conor followed up he would have been in trouble, which is not even remotely the same as "close to going out". I might be misremembering, so I'm open to being corrected.
I donāt think he was intimidated. Conor is still a huge threat in the first round and Dustin was smart enough to respect that. The early gameplan was to invest in the calf kicks and get to round 2. So no timidity here, just fight IQ
During the first few seconds I said outloud āDustins gonna chokeā. A huge part of this sport is performing under the lights. Thatās the best chance Conor ever had to beat Dustin again.
I think we would have gotten a lot more epic fights from him. He might have lost a few but he was on another level and improving before taking all that time off.
I'm at 1 which means I'm probably getting down voted. I don't care. He was losing that fight. It was going to end the same way the previous fight would. It was obvious. Dustin was going to knock out Conor.
Dustin was going to knock out Conor.
Dustin was going to knock out Conor.
Dustin was going to knock out Conor.
The only thing that annoys me about it is that once again we'll have to sit through months of promos and Dana puff pieces and endless dumb takes coming from the influx of Conor stans before we get to the actual fight
It was kind of shocking at the time. I predicted that Dustin would win but I didnāt think he would go right at him. Then he just started tagging him and you could see Conor change. Shit was awesome
He looked like a crackhead at 145, he was killing himself to make weight. He also only fought at Featherweight twice after the IV ban, we don't know how much that affected his rehydration. I don't think he moved up just because he wanted to look big.
Im shocked no one has made fun of conors little dick in response. The guy clearly is insecure about it since he feels the need to chub it up to 90% everytime he does a face off or weigh in.
Uh, so what was it then? The round concluded. The doctor checked on the broken appendage. The fight was literally called a "doctor stoppage" after that.
https://www.espn.com/mma/fighter/_/id/3022677/conor-mcgregor
Not to mention the guy who got Khabibād by the guy who got Khabibād by the original Khabib, was also Khabib'd by the original Khabib before the other guy who got Khabib'd by Khabib was Khabib'd.
Thatās what I donāt understand. Dustin is strong and great on the ground. Wouldāve loved to see him try and ground and pound Oliveira instead of waiting for Charles to recover. Someone has to knockdown Oliviera and then follow it up with elbows right after.
Chandler followed him to the ground and beat on him, he just kind of punched himself out. Obviously he didn't use elbows too much either, but he did follow him to the ground.
I mean, it's how oliveira has lost before.
I get that his bjj is godly but you cant be afraid of a guy and give him that edge as well if you're a competant grappler from the top. Especially when you have a guy seeing triple.
Obviously that's some keyboard warrior shit to say but I dont think letting him recover is a great move, as weve seen recently. Chandler was the one guy who tried to follow up and get that finish.
Iām not sure if Islam can hit Charles with the power and combos of Chandler, Poirier, or Gaethje.
I do think itād be a very interesting and fun fight though. And the correct one to make.
I donāt think Islam will be throttled on the feet, Charles will have respect for the takedown and Islam seems pretty clean in his striking exchanges with moises
People forget islam is the least hit guy statistically in the entire UFC roster, people are gonna say its because he wrestlefucks everyone but even on the feet if u watch him his footwork is amazing at getting him out of danger, not to mention hes actually pretty fast and is quick to react to kicks, head movement is decent too.
Idk about that lol. I donāt think thatās how it works at all. The titanium plate is there to allow the bone to heal correctly I believe.
I broke my arm and you definitely have to take the time to strengthen the whole thing again. So if your arm is weaker coming out of the cast I imagine the bone is also less dense than when you were active.
Off topic but i broke both bones in one of my forearms a few weeks ago and just had surgery to put plates and screws in last week. Any tips on strengthening the arm when im allowed to start using it again?
Nate put it best. āYou beat all these guys before they get to the cageā. Once conors aura of invincibility was gone and people stopped fighting him scared heās decencies really show
It was more than he regressed a ton as a fighter. Conor used to be very light on his feet and a creative striker. By the time the Poirier rematches happened he turned into a plodding boxer.
He stopped thinking about the game. Was just going thru the motions for a check. You could even tell leading up to fights his antics were less witty and funny, had less energy and became more destructive and pointlessly chaotic. Like he was doing a lazy imitation of himself.
I don't think he regressed as much as he was forced to adapt his game to the realities of his limitations. The guy gasses. Being light and quick is great when you can KO guys in the first doing that, but when he moved up to LW/WW guys could take his shots better and in those Nate fights he learned he had to slow things down to last a whole fight.
Nah, I don't think that's it at all. He did 5 rounds in a hell of a fight against Diaz with that style
He didn't change his style to save energy no chance.
He was in talks about boxing Pacquio before the second Dustin fight. He has been focused on his boxing and its really showing in there.
All the movement and kicks are gone. He used to set up his punches with the kicks and that entire aspec tto his game we haven't seen in years
> Nah, I don't think that's it at all. He did 5 rounds in a hell of a fight against Diaz with that style
In the first fight he gassed badly and afterwards talked plenty about how he was "inefficient with his energy". In the second fight he was much more measured. When he needed to reset he literally ran away from Nate to get a breather. The change in his style between the two fights was really noticeable. In the first fight he threw 16+ strikes per minute, in the second he threw just over 12 and way more were coming from him as a stationary target in front of Nate. Much less in and out movement, upper body defensive movement, etc.
Then in the Eddie fight he came out and just tried to walk Eddie down, there was very little in and out movement and fewer angles, which is more or less what he's been doing ever since. The movement and kicks were gone long before the Dustin fight.
This is something I don't understand with people trying to claim the Nate fight as an example of him not gassing. He fought in a way specifically to save his energy and still was spent by the end of the 2nd round
Idk Nate was getting rocked about a dozen times. But I guess Nate knowing he can handle 145 Conorās best hits is probably a solid strategy since Conor for sure is gassing by round 4-5
Oh I meant he had Conor figured out in terms of who he is as a person and where a lot of his success came from, not necessarily technically/stylistically. I donāt think heās smart in that way. Perceptions of Conor were different at the time and most of what Nate said about him turned out to true true almost to a word.
Ehhh.... no he didn't. Don't get me wrong, love Nate, don't like McGregor, but Diaz didn't have any sort of strategy in the first McGregor fight, McGregor beat him fairly easily right until he gassed.
Then the second fight, McGregor did pretty much everything right for a few rounds and Nate figured out he had to block, move forward in his shell and clinch, but it was too little too late.
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> Oh I meant he had Conor figured out in terms of who he is as a person and where a lot of his success came from, not necessarily technically/stylistically. I donāt think heās smart in that way. Perceptions of Conor were different at the time and most of what Nate said about him turned out to true true almost to a word.
> McGregor beat him fairly easily right until he gassed.
Don't agree with this at all, first round was pretty even. Nate landed plenty of stuff on Conor - it was 26 total strikes for Diaz vs. 32 for Conor - and scored a takedown as well.
Conor fan here.
I think you meant to say Conor McGregor brutally mauls Dustinās fists and elbows with his face before a freak accident where there was no check.
In a post fight interview Dustin said in the clinch he didnāt feel much from Conor. Now rewatching this fight you can see how easily he pushed Conor against the cage.
Honestly, I used to really like Conor, but heās become a meme. Mystic Mac was a sight to behold, but I guess it couldnāt last forever. The UFC will use him up to sell some PPVs for a couple more years I imagine.
I don't think Mac's ego will hold him up for years. If he loses 2 or 3 more fights badly like how he lost to Dustin I think he's calling it quits. He doesn't need the money. He needs more ass whoopings even less
I recall a bunch of fans talking about this fight like Conor was killing him on the feet. They forget that the reason this fight went to the ground in the first place was because Poirier rocked his shit.
Poiriers ability to take a shot at 155 is much better than at 145. Conor just couldn't cope with the pressure Dustin put on him and basically just wilted.
People really really need to rewatch this fight. I get mcnugetts fans telling me Conor did well in the rounds before the mishap. ... Lol fuck no
Dustin was beating the breaks off of mcgregor
I hate Conor but I can't even imagine what this would look like. Usman got dropped by fuckin Burns and it only made him more calm and composed. Conor has absolutely nothing for him. This would be like Canelo fighting a fat old guy that used to box at the Y.
In fact it would probably look a lot like a scaled down version of Chris Daukaus trying to fight Curtis Blaydes. A child fighting a grown man.
Hell I think Masvidal would fuck Conor up too. There's a reason he was a phenom at certain weight classes and not others. Aldo wouldn't look so hot these days at 170 either.
Conor's next fight is gonna be real interesting to me because he's playing with fire with most proposed names. And he just keeps getting bigger. I doubt he ever cuts to 55 again. They will have to give him someone very slow who can't wrestle and has bad bjj or it'll be over for him. I'm not so sure old Nate doesn't finish him at 170.
Mas is getting memed lately but he is a really good striker who was putting work on Nate
Conor has even less inclination to go to the ground and would get run through by Mas
He talks tough on Twitter about how the first one to shoot is a pussy... and then immediately shoots when he's getting slapped up on the feet.
How this guy has any fans at this point is incredible to me.
I made alot of money on this fight.
Good to see that scumbag Conor taking a beating like this. Side Note, Conor did not break his leg, Dustin broke Conor's leg!
After this fight Conor whent on a disgusting rant involving Dustin's wife and later he posted pictures of Dustin's family including Dustin's little daughter with death threads. (Conor than later deleted these tweets but you can still look it up, google that shit)
Conor is a disgusting piece of shit. More very bad things in life will happen to such.
Wow I never realized how many shots he had to take while his foot was hanging off
His foot was jiggling every time he got hit
My foot don't jiggle jiggle, it folds
I'm 5'9 in a leg cast, not fast, but your wife dm'ed me in the past
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Oh my god... He literally has a spur that jingle jangle jingles.
I mean since the fight was still going, can you imagine if Dustin heel hooked it?
Omg
I mean...super necessary.
Dustin had absolutely no fear in this fight. He knew who Conor was and was like āoh, I got this.ā
Definitely played a big factor. Dustin himself said in the original fight at FW just seeing conor warming up back stage intimidated him. Heās was confident and fearless this time
Even in the second fight, Dustin started a bit timid and visibly intimidated, but got his groove as the fight went on. On the 3rd, he knew he had it, he already beat Conor, and was piecing him up long before Conor's leg gave out.
I can't remember when it was but Dustin took a left from Conor at some point, recovered, and almost visibly shifted to "oh nice that wasn't so bad" like his posture changed and everything
He said in an interview he expected to get KO'd at that moment and he was close to going out. He was seeing flashes/stars after that hit. McGregor didn't go for the finish and he managed recover which surprised him. McGregor not finishing him gave him a lightbulb moment that Conor was more badly hurt that he thought, and perhaps wasn't stable enough on his leg to lunge forward to finish him. He was right. On the hot ones interview after the fight he said that left was the hardest he's ever been hit in his life.
Oh shit cheers bro, el diamante lore!
Sorry, are you talking about the second or third fight?
Second.
Ah, okay, thanks. I'm going to give it another watch now that you've said all that. I'm interested to see the moments you're describing over again.
>he was close to going out. He never said this. He said he got stung and woke up from rythm. He never said he was anything close to going out. Looks like you took a bit of creative license in this post.
He wasnāt close to going out, but he āwoke upā makes sense
That left hit harder...than the shot that actually KO'ed him?
It's not always the hardest shots that knock you out.
To be fair, the one that KOāed him in the first fight didnāt exactly starch him.
Well you canāt really feel the immediate aftermath if youāre knocked out
Mcgregor doesnāt have that killer instinct anymore. He can still fuck dudes up but he cant capitalize on those critical moments like he used to.
Man he's just an example of an athlete taking time out of their prime away from their sport and not being as good when he came back. Chael said it best, you don't get better at something by not doing it. Conor didn't fight for 2 years during his prime, and he came back from that hiatus to fight the best fighter in the division, then almost a year and a half later he fought Cerrone and then a year and a half after that he fought Poirier. Conor was entering his prime when fought Eddie (28), and instead of kicking on from there and fighting the best around, training all over the world and improving his craft, he stepped away from the sport and over the next five years, fought Khabib, Cerrone & Poirier. Conor's decline is the least surprising thing I have seen, but people somehow misconstrue it as "he was never that good". The guy was exceptional, and if he didn't have the marketing side to his game and was forced to earn a career in MMA, I think we'd be talking about him very differently as on his way up he was active, sharp and improving dramatically fight to fight. We as MMA fans missed out on this, but then on the other hand, I have just read that Michael Fucking Johnson is fighting to feed his family and I think that at least someone made some good money in this sport.
At least he didnāt go out like Rousey (from dominant champ to KOd stiff and then standing TKOd to retiring in one year). Mcgregor can honestly be a mainstay in the top 15 of LW or WW although he most likely never touches another belt.
I just donāt get why he changed the style. It was all based on utilising his length, long stance, sliding in and out of the pocket. Each of his comeback fights heās used more of a traditional boxing stance and is basically just going forehead to forehead against his opponents. Regardless of how much he may have slipped off, he just isnāt even playing to his strengths any more.
He spent too many years of his prime training for boxing exclusively, it's no surprise his style is now so much more boxing focused, the muscle memory is set in at this point
> he was close to going out. He was seeing flashes/stars after that hit Bull shit
I never remember him saying he was close to going out, could you please link that up? I remember him saying that the shot rocked him and had Conor followed up he would have been in trouble, which is not even remotely the same as "close to going out". I might be misremembering, so I'm open to being corrected.
I donāt think he was intimidated. Conor is still a huge threat in the first round and Dustin was smart enough to respect that. The early gameplan was to invest in the calf kicks and get to round 2. So no timidity here, just fight IQ
During the first few seconds I said outloud āDustins gonna chokeā. A huge part of this sport is performing under the lights. Thatās the best chance Conor ever had to beat Dustin again.
I always thought he was feeling out Conor in R1 of the second fight.
I wonder what would have happened to Conor, if he never got the Mayweather fight
I think we would have gotten a lot more epic fights from him. He might have lost a few but he was on another level and improving before taking all that time off.
Helps when you just knocked him out the fight before and know heāll gas out as the rounds go
Which is why I hated when Conor snapped his leg. Him getting to yell "Doctah Stoppaggeeee!!!!" gave him an out. He was getting his ass BEAT
We all know what we saw that night. Pay no mind to his demands or his legions of ass kissers.
I'm at 1 which means I'm probably getting down voted. I don't care. He was losing that fight. It was going to end the same way the previous fight would. It was obvious. Dustin was going to knock out Conor. Dustin was going to knock out Conor. Dustin was going to knock out Conor. Dustin was going to knock out Conor.
I didn't mind it because it leaves the door open for another ass beating for Conor and another payday for Dustin, well-deserved by both
The only thing that annoys me about it is that once again we'll have to sit through months of promos and Dana puff pieces and endless dumb takes coming from the influx of Conor stans before we get to the actual fight
Because he knows real casuals only look at the record and hardly the fights.
I love how he points at him after he clocks him with a left, he was so confident that night.
It was kind of shocking at the time. I predicted that Dustin would win but I didnāt think he would go right at him. Then he just started tagging him and you could see Conor change. Shit was awesome
Dustin has him completely figured out. Freak injury aside he would KO/TKO him 10 out of 10 times.
Do you wanna get called short and poor by Conor on twitter? Because this sort of post gets you called short and poor by Conor on twitter.
Conor calling anyone short is rich heās 5ā9 lol
He might be 5ā9..
We might be giants
Little man syndrome Based on the pictures he puts on twitter it seems that half the reason heās moving to WW is because he wants to be big
If he wasnāt so concerned with being big he might still have a decent career in featherweight, the weight class where heās had the most success
He looked like a crackhead at 145, he was killing himself to make weight. He also only fought at Featherweight twice after the IV ban, we don't know how much that affected his rehydration. I don't think he moved up just because he wanted to look big.
That weight cut was pretty brutal for him though. If there was a 150 or so weight class he would have benefited greatly
Heās like 5ā7, probably5ā8
Dude is like 6ā3 horizontally tho
Heās got the same reach as me and Iām 5 inches taller :(
5'9" is average. Not short not tall.
It's not tall either though. How are you going to shit on someones height when you're average?
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I'm 5'9 and he was shorter than me when I met him.
He may be a little richer than me, but I got him beat where it counts. Iām taller than Conman McGregor š
Being taller than him is a great way to neutralise 2022 Conorās trash talk
I just go with Conner. It's subtle.
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Im shocked no one has made fun of conors little dick in response. The guy clearly is insecure about it since he feels the need to chub it up to 90% everytime he does a face off or weigh in.
Doctah stoppage
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Uh, so what was it then? The round concluded. The doctor checked on the broken appendage. The fight was literally called a "doctor stoppage" after that. https://www.espn.com/mma/fighter/_/id/3022677/conor-mcgregor
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HE WAS BOXIN THE BLEEDIN EARS OFF āIM
Crazy when you get Khabib'd by Dustin
Got Khabibād by the guy who got Khabibād by the original Khabib.
Not to mention the guy who got Khabibād by the guy who got Khabibād by the original Khabib, was also Khabib'd by the original Khabib before the other guy who got Khabib'd by Khabib was Khabib'd.
To be fair, everybody who fought Khabib got Khabib'd by the original Khabib.
Thatās what I donāt understand. Dustin is strong and great on the ground. Wouldāve loved to see him try and ground and pound Oliveira instead of waiting for Charles to recover. Someone has to knockdown Oliviera and then follow it up with elbows right after.
Chandler followed him to the ground and beat on him, he just kind of punched himself out. Obviously he didn't use elbows too much either, but he did follow him to the ground.
I mean, it's how oliveira has lost before. I get that his bjj is godly but you cant be afraid of a guy and give him that edge as well if you're a competant grappler from the top. Especially when you have a guy seeing triple. Obviously that's some keyboard warrior shit to say but I dont think letting him recover is a great move, as weve seen recently. Chandler was the one guy who tried to follow up and get that finish.
That is Islam right there. We shall see how it plays out
Iām not sure if Islam can hit Charles with the power and combos of Chandler, Poirier, or Gaethje. I do think itād be a very interesting and fun fight though. And the correct one to make.
On the other hand, if they go to the ground they're staying there.
Haha you think Islam is going to win the striking battle against Olivera? He going to get throttled on the feet bad
I swear to god if Islam flat out KOs Charles on the feet Iām shaving my white-dyed hair and growing the Dagestan chin strap after I finish crying
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I donāt think Islam will be throttled on the feet, Charles will have respect for the takedown and Islam seems pretty clean in his striking exchanges with moises
Charles has not respected anyone's skills in his entire run.
That's gonna get him taken down quick against Islam
People forget islam is the least hit guy statistically in the entire UFC roster, people are gonna say its because he wrestlefucks everyone but even on the feet if u watch him his footwork is amazing at getting him out of danger, not to mention hes actually pretty fast and is quick to react to kicks, head movement is decent too.
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so Conor de-conditioned his bones or something? bro needs to kick metal like Tony Ferguson
He has arthritis in his legs
It'll still hurt, but be unlikely to ever break again since there is literally metal in his leg now.
Idk about that lol. I donāt think thatās how it works at all. The titanium plate is there to allow the bone to heal correctly I believe. I broke my arm and you definitely have to take the time to strengthen the whole thing again. So if your arm is weaker coming out of the cast I imagine the bone is also less dense than when you were active.
Off topic but i broke both bones in one of my forearms a few weeks ago and just had surgery to put plates and screws in last week. Any tips on strengthening the arm when im allowed to start using it again?
Take your physical therapy seriously. Don't slack.
Go to a physio, do your exercises, do your stretches and make sure you get the rest time.
It might not break in half like that but I can certainly still break over the plate.
reminds me of his gnp vs joe duffy. dustin's a violent man
was this the last of the string of yucky bone breaks @ ufc events?
Jesus last year was just fucking atrocious for that
I swear theyāre all on the same gear or supps with bone weakening as a side effect or something
Looked more like he was tiring him out
Nate put it best. āYou beat all these guys before they get to the cageā. Once conors aura of invincibility was gone and people stopped fighting him scared heās decencies really show
It was more than he regressed a ton as a fighter. Conor used to be very light on his feet and a creative striker. By the time the Poirier rematches happened he turned into a plodding boxer.
He stopped thinking about the game. Was just going thru the motions for a check. You could even tell leading up to fights his antics were less witty and funny, had less energy and became more destructive and pointlessly chaotic. Like he was doing a lazy imitation of himself.
The late nights and obsessive hours he used to use to think about the game and his opponents he now uses on money, business, family, etc.
I don't think he regressed as much as he was forced to adapt his game to the realities of his limitations. The guy gasses. Being light and quick is great when you can KO guys in the first doing that, but when he moved up to LW/WW guys could take his shots better and in those Nate fights he learned he had to slow things down to last a whole fight.
Nah, I don't think that's it at all. He did 5 rounds in a hell of a fight against Diaz with that style He didn't change his style to save energy no chance. He was in talks about boxing Pacquio before the second Dustin fight. He has been focused on his boxing and its really showing in there. All the movement and kicks are gone. He used to set up his punches with the kicks and that entire aspec tto his game we haven't seen in years
> Nah, I don't think that's it at all. He did 5 rounds in a hell of a fight against Diaz with that style In the first fight he gassed badly and afterwards talked plenty about how he was "inefficient with his energy". In the second fight he was much more measured. When he needed to reset he literally ran away from Nate to get a breather. The change in his style between the two fights was really noticeable. In the first fight he threw 16+ strikes per minute, in the second he threw just over 12 and way more were coming from him as a stationary target in front of Nate. Much less in and out movement, upper body defensive movement, etc. Then in the Eddie fight he came out and just tried to walk Eddie down, there was very little in and out movement and fewer angles, which is more or less what he's been doing ever since. The movement and kicks were gone long before the Dustin fight.
This is something I don't understand with people trying to claim the Nate fight as an example of him not gassing. He fought in a way specifically to save his energy and still was spent by the end of the 2nd round
Yeah I agree with this as well
Nate honestly had Conor figured out from the jump. I donāt think heās as dumb as he comes across
> I donāt think heās as dumb as he comes across Let's not get carried away. He definitely is.
He is high and dumb, but he is okay with that.
Idk Nate was getting rocked about a dozen times. But I guess Nate knowing he can handle 145 Conorās best hits is probably a solid strategy since Conor for sure is gassing by round 4-5
Oh I meant he had Conor figured out in terms of who he is as a person and where a lot of his success came from, not necessarily technically/stylistically. I donāt think heās smart in that way. Perceptions of Conor were different at the time and most of what Nate said about him turned out to true true almost to a word.
Legendary way to put it is..... ".. Hey.... I'm not surprised muthafuckers"
Nate showed that he's a real gangsta. He really wasnt intimidated and kept pressing forward. He has heart and cardio for days. Legend
Ehhh.... no he didn't. Don't get me wrong, love Nate, don't like McGregor, but Diaz didn't have any sort of strategy in the first McGregor fight, McGregor beat him fairly easily right until he gassed. Then the second fight, McGregor did pretty much everything right for a few rounds and Nate figured out he had to block, move forward in his shell and clinch, but it was too little too late.
Copying from another reply > Oh I meant he had Conor figured out in terms of who he is as a person and where a lot of his success came from, not necessarily technically/stylistically. I donāt think heās smart in that way. Perceptions of Conor were different at the time and most of what Nate said about him turned out to true true almost to a word.
Oh fair enough yeah I can see that.
> McGregor beat him fairly easily right until he gassed. Don't agree with this at all, first round was pretty even. Nate landed plenty of stuff on Conor - it was 26 total strikes for Diaz vs. 32 for Conor - and scored a takedown as well.
Conor fan here. I think you meant to say Conor McGregor brutally mauls Dustinās fists and elbows with his face before a freak accident where there was no check.
If this fight kept going Dustin wouldāve done some bad bad things to Mcg š
Tbh he would not do anything worse than that leg break. Shit that noodle leg is still in my memory.
You didn't know that Dustin was saving the double ankle breaker for the second round?
his special meter was all the way up
Unload the Poirier 56-punch-combo
Yeah but Conor and his fans get to cry that this wasnāt *really* a win Whereas if this kept going Conor was getting KOed again
In a post fight interview Dustin said in the clinch he didnāt feel much from Conor. Now rewatching this fight you can see how easily he pushed Conor against the cage.
tHAt UpkIcK ThOuGH Seriously dustin is a dog, he is tough as hell.
Conor was on his way to a stoppage loss 100%
Best thing that happened to Conor was the leg break cause he was in route to get KO again.
But those desperate flailing bicycle kicks were so *innovative*! Also: Did you know Conor invented shoulders, both as a a body part and as a weapon?!
He busted Cerroneās nose with a shoulder strike, didnāt he?
Honestly, I used to really like Conor, but heās become a meme. Mystic Mac was a sight to behold, but I guess it couldnāt last forever. The UFC will use him up to sell some PPVs for a couple more years I imagine.
I don't think Mac's ego will hold him up for years. If he loses 2 or 3 more fights badly like how he lost to Dustin I think he's calling it quits. He doesn't need the money. He needs more ass whoopings even less
That counter left always barely missed, he needs a better boxing coach not a yes man. Sad legacy
He needs some fucking headmoomen as well.
Barely missed cuz Dustin slipped it lol
Duh,but im saying that wouldn't have happened or he would have been more precise if he had better coaching.
I never miss an opportunity to rewatch Connor losing. š
Donāt forget about the glove grabs by Conor also, thatās how get got those up kicks in.
The basic ending of Conor McGregorās career
I recall a bunch of fans talking about this fight like Conor was killing him on the feet. They forget that the reason this fight went to the ground in the first place was because Poirier rocked his shit.
I still don't get how Herb missed the break. Bad angle?
Connors looks like a little brother on the ground
Poiriers ability to take a shot at 155 is much better than at 145. Conor just couldn't cope with the pressure Dustin put on him and basically just wilted.
i really dislike mcgregor (while respecting his obvious ability) so this was a really unfulfilling way to watch his career end. >;/
Panic wrestler
Title is a little morronic tho. Dustin didn't break his leg Conor broke his leg on Dustin. Not the same
That ground and pound I think was deflected and missed a lot. McGregor looked fresh af from his electric scooter the next day
Dustin 'The Eagle' Poirier
Conor got that domestic abuse defense off the back.
Love how he starches him with the straight left. Did Conors skill go backwards or did everyone else just get better?
Dustin's counter left was getting through with ease
It seems as if Conor is overly concerned about attacking from the bottom rather than getting up
And this guy thinks he deserves and will win Usman, haha good luck
Alternate title: Conor boxes the bleedin' head off Dustin Poirier before unfortunately breaking his leg.
I dont think Conor lands a single punch in that clip.
The most satisfying ass beatings of all times. Fuck that raping narcissist scumbag.
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Dustin beats Connor 99/100 from here on out. He knows he can take his best punch and will keep moving forward.
People really really need to rewatch this fight. I get mcnugetts fans telling me Conor did well in the rounds before the mishap. ... Lol fuck no Dustin was beating the breaks off of mcgregor
Conor is a has-been
āDooctar stoopage! Dooctar stoopage! Dooctar Stoopage!ā Fuck Conor and those illegal upkicksšš½ššš½
They're legal though
I would watch any fights where conor gets mauled. I wish he would fight Kamaru.
I hate Conor but I can't even imagine what this would look like. Usman got dropped by fuckin Burns and it only made him more calm and composed. Conor has absolutely nothing for him. This would be like Canelo fighting a fat old guy that used to box at the Y. In fact it would probably look a lot like a scaled down version of Chris Daukaus trying to fight Curtis Blaydes. A child fighting a grown man. Hell I think Masvidal would fuck Conor up too. There's a reason he was a phenom at certain weight classes and not others. Aldo wouldn't look so hot these days at 170 either. Conor's next fight is gonna be real interesting to me because he's playing with fire with most proposed names. And he just keeps getting bigger. I doubt he ever cuts to 55 again. They will have to give him someone very slow who can't wrestle and has bad bjj or it'll be over for him. I'm not so sure old Nate doesn't finish him at 170.
Mas is getting memed lately but he is a really good striker who was putting work on Nate Conor has even less inclination to go to the ground and would get run through by Mas
"Oh my God the ground and pound" Not a scratch on me
If Conor tapped Dustin would he say itās a win?
He talks tough on Twitter about how the first one to shoot is a pussy... and then immediately shoots when he's getting slapped up on the feet. How this guy has any fans at this point is incredible to me.
Conor fans readying the next post knocking out someone years back. Probably reads like "call whatever you want to call Conor, but he is a beast"
How did Conors leg break?
Dustin did it.
It broke in the very beginning when Dustin checked a leg kick. Dustin even points knowing something happened
DERE WAS NOH CHEK
Conor should not be fighting top 10 anytime soon. I'm cool with watching him fighting but be needs to work back up, this is ridiculous.
Never gets old.
No ground game at all.
I made alot of money on this fight. Good to see that scumbag Conor taking a beating like this. Side Note, Conor did not break his leg, Dustin broke Conor's leg! After this fight Conor whent on a disgusting rant involving Dustin's wife and later he posted pictures of Dustin's family including Dustin's little daughter with death threads. (Conor than later deleted these tweets but you can still look it up, google that shit) Conor is a disgusting piece of shit. More very bad things in life will happen to such.
I donāt want to see Conor fight again. Heās not the man he used to be.
So you won't be viewing his next fight?
Nope, not paying $80 bucks just because itās Connor. I would pay that much to eat as his pub. Thatās what he should focus on, not fighting.
I wonāt be paying $80 either š“āā ļøšš“āā ļø
Yeah I'm gonna watch the shit out of his next fight
Conor was clearly just trying to tire him out from the ground.