Fellow believers, what do you think the excuses will be from the haters if McGregor beats Mayweather? Anytime Conor wins, it's always due to some fluke or previously unknown weakness in his opponent. I've noticed the chamber is already being loaded for the "fixed" excuse; Floyd being old is another one I've seen.
Haters are not rational when it comes to accurate appraisal of McGregor's accomplishments. In their world, successful people don't or shouldn't act like Conor does - so for them, he isn't successful, regardless of what he actually accomplishes. Human tendency is to be jealous and resentful success, especially when the success is of somebody that you find personally distasteful. The reaction of some MMA fans to such a person's success is to minimize it, excuse it, and basically deny that it exists, even when it is quite plain. Basically, haters hate because of personal judgments, not because of facts.
You see this in the blatant denial of his record, finding any way to minimize his dominant victories over top fighters like Mendes, Aldo, Alvarez, Diaz, and Poirier. Instead of acknowledging the fact that with few exceptions (we'll get to Diaz in a moment), he has starched everybody they have put in front of him, they focus on irrelevant paper statistics like never having defended a title - the only rational implication being that he was ducking an opponent - when in actual fact anytime he has relinquished a title it has been to fight a tougher opponent elsewhere. None of his fights have even been competitive. His sloppiest fight was the Mendes fight, where he dropped his defense and simply out-punched the smaller Mendes. All the rest were the same precise, accurate, smooth striking against a completely overwhelmed and overmatched opponent.
Haters are not rational when it comes to accurate appraisal of McGregor's accomplishments. In their world, successful people don't or shouldn't act like Conor does - so for them, he isn't successful, regardless of what he actually accomplishes. Human tendency is to be jealous and resentful success, especially when the success is of somebody that you find personally distasteful. The reaction of some MMA fans to such a person's success is to minimize it, excuse it, and basically deny that it exists, even when it is quite plain. Basically, haters hate because of personal judgments, not because of facts.
You see this in the blatant denial of his record, finding any way to minimize his dominant victories over top fighters like Mendes, Aldo, Alvarez, Diaz, and Poirier. Instead of acknowledging the fact that with few exceptions (we'll get to Diaz in a moment), he has starched everybody they have put in front of him, they focus on irrelevant paper statistics like never having defended a title - the only rational implication being that he was ducking an opponent - when in actual fact anytime he has relinquished a title it has been to fight a tougher opponent elsewhere. None of his fights have even been competitive. His sloppiest fight was the Mendes fight, where he dropped his defense and simply out-punched the smaller Mendes. All the rest were the same precise, accurate, smooth striking against a completely overwhelmed and overmatched opponent.
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