Fighters Trying to Imitate Conor McGregor

Because this archetype was never a thing before Conor, wearing expensive clothes, talking smack and purporting wealth...
Did you watch the video?
Taking an idea then making it your own and copying what someone says almost verbatim are 2 different things
 


Hate him or love him, Mcgregor is the GOAT of self promotion. However, not everybody has the charisma or Mcgregor, and guys like Colby just look stupid as fuck. Colby talking about his bank account, dressing and talking like Conor LOL

Its true colby has no charisma at all. Hes just an asshole hahaha.
 
Because this archetype was never a thing before Conor, wearing expensive clothes, talking smack and purporting wealth...
You just used archetype and purport in a sentence. Did you go to Oxford or Cambridge?
 
Which fighters are refusing to defend their title while they're perfectly healthy and able to fight until they get stripped like Connor?

Only one that comes to mind is Germaine De Randamie . . .

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McGregor imitates pro wrestlers / boxers from the past. Nothing new.
 


Hate him or love him, Mcgregor is the GOAT of self promotion. However, not everybody has the charisma or Mcgregor, and guys like Colby just look stupid as fuck. Colby talking about his bank account, dressing and talking like Conor LOL

ps: for people who did not watch the video, it shows fighters using same phrases, word by word.


Conor imitate hundreds off boxers. Conor not the first ever or greatest trash talker in fighting sports. Let me know when he fires gun off at a challenger and sits back down at casino table, that o.g. Historical sports stuff.
 
There's a difference between drawing from history, like Conor and Floyd did with guys like Ali, and what Colby is doing.

Conor has a sense of humour, and an exciting style. That's part of why he rose so fast. Colby has neither.

Floyd built up a pristine record in an established sport and threw in some trash talk to boot, he played off being a pos as a marketing tool. Colby has none of that.

And don't tell me Colby and some of these other guys aren't copying Conor right now. Just the other day Colby riffed on Conor's "I'll rest my balls on your forehead" comment towards Mendes. He must study him.
 
Did you watch the video?
Taking an idea then making it your own and copying what someone says almost verbatim are 2 different things

If having an accent equates to making something your own, ok. Just saying, it's all been done, just another guy following a blue print. I think Colby is a tool, and his persona has obviously been inspired by Conor, but this is what MMA is now.
 
If having an accent equates to making something your own, ok. Just saying, it's all been done, just another guy following a blue print. I think Colby is a tool, and his persona has obviously been inspired by Conor, but this is what MMA is now.
Red panty night
Change your bum life
Yewl dew nottin
Mystic Mac
Predict deez thing

All the little sound bites and catch phrases are his own, the persona is all he has adopted.

People seem to think Ric Flair is the original but even he got inspiration from someone else

Saying Conor is copying anyone is like saying Heath Ledger copied Jack Nicholson...It's the same character but still very different.

The guys in the video are reapeating what Conor has said, not just playing some braggadocios character.
 
Red panty night
Change your bum life
Yewl dew nottin
Mystic Mac
Predict deez thing

All the little sound bites and catch phrases are his own, the persona is all he has adopted.

People seem to think Ric Flair is the original but even he got inspiration from someone else

Saying Conor is copying anyone is like saying Heath Ledger copied Jack Nicholson...It's the same character but still very different.

The guys in the video are reapeating what Conor has said, not just playing some braggadocios character.

He didn't come up with red panty night. Ali was predicting fights 60 years ago and boasting about it afterward. Saying "you'll do nothing" wouldn't stand out without the accent. Literally a slight rephrasing of "you won't do shit". The "change your life" gig has been trotted out by the main attraction fighter repeatedly throughout the fight game. I don't count copy and pasting famous lines and changing a word in the middle as being original.

Conor is Irish and it brings a flair that gives him an illusion of unconventionality. He wears the hat well and it can be entertaining, but it isn't original. Guys that talk funny are unique in that regard and therefore identifiable. Stalone, Arnold, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, etc.
 
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