Conor can beat people with out eating a single punch. He can starch elite fighters like Aldo in 13 seconds. Or he can put on a masterful performance like the Eddie fight stuffing every TD attempts and just tooling them on the feet.
Max had to tire out Aldo and then trade. It was entertaining, and Max has one hell of a chin. I'm a fan. But he ate a massive amount of hard punches from Aldo.
Please, take that fight style into the cage against Conor. Please, I'd love to see it. Stand and bang with Conor and see how long it lasts.
To answer your question more specifically. Conor has better boxing fundamentals. Conor has way more power. Conor has better timing, and a VASTLY superior understanding an utilization of distance.
Conor is at the very LEAST equal to or better than Max at takedowns and grappling. I would dare say he is probably better actually. I would also say its clear Conor has a higher fight IQ and gameplanning.
Max's only edge is cardio. He has much, much better cardio than Conor. I just dont see that getting him a victory. What some dont understand is you dont need insane cardio when you set the pace by landing brutal counters on your opponent. Max would get caught left right and center. The only question is it his jaw would hold up again.
Max beats a man Conor beat more impressively and everyone loses their minds...the hatred of Conor clouds their judgement.
Not feeling ANY objectivity in here.
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Conor can beat people with out eating a single punch.”
He got hit in pretty much every single fight he had in the UFC.
Even in the day He starched Aldo he got hit pretty hard in the exchange.
Everybody knows Connie is very ease to hit.
1)you are overrating his power
,he have ONE KO in his record.
His best assets are his control of range and timing.
He is basically Anderson Silva in a hurry.
Main differences are one is boxing oriented and the other MT and Connie have an offensive approach while Anderson is defensive.
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Conor is at the very LEAST equal to or better than Max at takedowns and grappling.”
2)Max have more submissions wins and less submissions losses against same or better competition. You can say that Connie have better grappling training partners but we still have to see ANY objective result of his training in actual combat.
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I would also say its clear Conor has a higher fight IQ and gameplanning.”
3)that’s arguable,he needed two fights and a six months fighting camp to figure Nate Diaz style.
Something that have NO mystery whatsoever.
SO:
He didn’t put a foot Brocken Max to sleep in three rounds and impressively twisted his own ACL trying to
Grapple with him.
And that was training in his own garage Max not the FW undefeated champion Max.
Also people are giving all the credit to Max and almost zero to Connie because one gave Aldo an opportunity to rematch his loss while the other never even thought about even after he himself tell Aldo they would “do it again”.
Max actually PROVED his IS BETTER then Aldo by doing it twice.
Connie left the “naysayers” in doubt if he can repeat the feat.
IMO in a rematch,that is never going to happen,Max is 45/55 against Connie at FW or LW until the end of the second round and the difference will turn in his favor after the end if the second,I would even say he finishes Connie if he passes the storm and puts a beating maybe finishes him with a TKO or a sub since Connie defense and awareness disappears after two rounds.
