I doubt this lasts much longer than I did the last time I got to go balls deep in something not named Palmela Handerson. Cowboy is a slow starter with minimal boxing defense. Conor is a fast starter with excellent boxing. I get that anything can happen in MMA, but holy shit if this isn’t a stylistic mismatch of epic proportions.
McGregor is, most of the time, a walking grandeur delusion. What other UFC fighter can you think of who has thrown a fucking chair through a bus filled with his peers?
Having seen him felled by a real champion (Mayweather), I’m still waiting for him to really want it. The weigh in was a good sign, he actually wasn’t a total dick.
For somebody who has never been #1, his bravado is his biggest problem. First comes the championship THEN come the bragging rights. Even now, he still comes across as more Irish street hooligan than king of the hill.
Am I the only one who wants him to smile more, and show his love for the sport that gave him a shot at greatness?
[QUOTE=W. Rabbit;3064665]McGregor is, most of the time, a walking grandeur delusion. What other UFC fighter can you think of who has thrown a fucking chair through a bus filled with his peers?
Having seen him felled by a real champion (Mayweather), I’m still waiting for him to really want it. The weigh in was a good sign, he actually wasn’t a total dick.
For somebody who has never been #1, his bravado is his biggest problem. First comes the championship THEN come the bragging rights. Even now, he still comes across as more Irish street hooligan than king of the hill.
Am I the only one who wants him to smile more, and show his love for the sport that gave him a shot at greatness?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=lant3rn;3064662]Connor cherry picking fights he thinks he can win so as to take the easiest road to a title shot and the pay day that goes with it.[/QUOTE]
You say that as if it is a bad thing.
That is exactly what I would have him do if I were his manager or coach or trainer.
Good managers and coaches of professional fighters have two jobs:
Preserve the health of their fighter, and
Maximize their fighter’s lifetime earnings.
And the invisible (3), deal with the knuckleheaded choices, and lifestyle, that often surrounds fighters, including arrests, drugs, stupid behavior injuries, domestic problems, mental illness, etc, etc, etc.[/QUOTE]
Well, I think Dana is hoping for an explosive fight where Cowboy takes a lot of big shots. I don’t think that’s a great way to treat a fighter but he signed up for this so it should be a good spectacle.
Whatever the case I expect McG to try to pour it on extra heavy and do his best to KO Texas Don Corleone here in the first round.
[QUOTE=ghost55;3064650]I doubt this lasts much longer than I did the last time I got to go balls deep in something not named Palmela Handerson. Cowboy is a slow starter with minimal boxing defense. Conor is a fast starter with excellent boxing. I get that anything can happen in MMA, but holy shit if this isn’t a stylistic mismatch of epic proportions.[/QUOTE]
I give it five years before the UFC starts doing fully fixed fights WWE style. Already great fighters are getting dumped over not being dramatic enough. This thing quit being about fighting a while ago.
[QUOTE=Michael Tzadok;3064728]Well I’m glad I didn’t pay for that. That fight sucked.[/QUOTE]
Man, if I didn’t know any better I’d say it was a work. I know that’s unlikely but shit, he wasn’t even trying to fight back past the first dust up and it doesn’t look like he ever took a huge shot anway. It looks like his face brushed the bottom of McG’s thigh above the knee in that aborted takedown early in the round. A broken nose can be literally blinding but it does [edit: NOT] look like he ever took a really square shot. Those “shoulder strikes” looked like an annoyance, not a power delivery.
Blood of heroes and all that but eh, that looked like a canned turkey shoot.
My rational mind says “no way” but that fight says, there’s a way. Did that chump throw a fight?
