Conor McGregor vs Michael Chandler is set for November in the Ultimate Fighter 31. Here we look at how opponents acted both before and after fighting the biggest name in Mixed Martial Arts - The Notorious, Conor McGregor.
His destruction of Jose is unlike anything we’ve ever seen. To be humiliated like that live for so many months and then to be knocked out in 13 seconds is absolutely insane. Glad to see they both respect each other now, but conor was a vicious killer back in the day.
Conor at his best was truly something else, the way he beat poirier, mendes, holloway, jose Aldo, and Eddie alvarez. Each of those performances was truly magnificent.
Diaz vs Mcgregor 2 remains my favorite fight of all time. It's sentimental too. My best friend from when he was 4 and I was 5 was down in Wenatchee WA and it's the last thing we talked about, because the very next day he had a swimming accident that snapped his neck and caused him to go brain dead. They turned off his machine. I will always remember Wyatt any time I think of or see Diaz vs Mcgregor 2. Wyatt said "That was the best fight!" RIP little brother.
McGregor used to have that hunger when he was facing Aldo. Nowadays the man is a made man and don’t nearly train as much as he once did. And why would he?
What's so insane about his mental warfare of Aldo is how incredibly effective it was. Mcgregor dominated Alvarez over the course of several rounds using a similar strategy, and while the fight lasted way longer Mcgregor didn't have a scratch on him at the end. While Aldo was such an insanely good striker with so much power and speed that even though it ended in 13 seconds, that one left punch that clipped Mcgregor was enough to leave a bruise above his eye. But the problem was he just went off and tried to end it there. And Conor was ultimately right, precision beats power and timing beats speed. Aldo paid no attention to having precision or timing and just wanted to make Mcgregor pay for all the months of trash talk, and he would have likely put Mcgregor to sleep if that full combination had connected. But Conor saw it coming, and got out of the way of most of it, and while Aldo was wide open he ended it. Really makes you wonder how things would've ended if Aldo stayed calmer similar to Khabib, or even like Chad Mendes who almost beat Conor in their interim title fight, albeit got too gassed to close it out. But I don't see prime Aldo tiring like that, so even though at surface value people will think the fight had a very definitive result, the way I see it I think it was actually kinda inconclusive as to who was the better fighter.
Mr McGregor is an awesome MMA artist. He showed how stand-up can overcome grappling, he showed incredible skill that would overtake opponent strength and conditioning ... Precision over power / Timing beats speed ... Connor is a Skillful Master.
