How well does Conor do against top ten lightweights?

[Rajon Rondo]

Charles
Poirier
Gaethje
Dariush
Chandler
Ferg
Rda
Hooker
Islam
Gillepse

He beats everyone except Gaethje and Diamond imo. RDA, Islam, Dariush and Aloe Vera are 50-50 fights.

Only clear victory would be a shot Tony or Dan Hooker

 

[Lukn4trbl]

Not any better than 1-4 in the last 5.

He beats none of them without a prayer. Maybe 3/10 times in the first 2 rounds.

Otherwise, gate keeper if he's lucky.

 

[Ares Black]

Poorly

 

[Unfinished]

Runs trough them.

 

[blaseblah]

Good chance against Chandler due to his iffy chin. He probably beats this out of prime version of Ferguson. I don't know that I'd favor him over anyone else.

 

[gotBooched]

I dunno.

His mental warfare game has to be considered. A lot of these guys haven’t been abused so we don’t know how much he could use that to his advantage to score an easy first round KO

i loathe conor more than anyone on this site but my hatred doesn’t blind me of his talent and ability to beat some top 10 ass. Probably not top 5 though. Charles, obviously Dustin, Islam I would call guaranteed losses but I could see him beating most others if he fucked with them. I think he would nuke Chandler even though I’d rather chandler win that fight

 

[MikeChandler]

Only gets a W from Tony if that

 

[KOByFootStomp]

If he gets Herb to ref and he continuously allows him to cheat he can probably beat 1 or 2 of them.

 

[Rajon Rondo]

I dunno.

His mental warfare game has to be considered. A lot of these guys haven’t been abused so we don’t know how much he could use that to his advantage to score an easy first round KO

i loathe conor more than anyone on this site but my hatred doesn’t blind me of his talent and ability to beat some top 10 ass. Probably not top 5 though. Charles, obviously Dustin, Islam I would call guaranteed losses but I could see him beating most others if he fucked with them. I think he would nuke Chandler even though I’d rather chandler win that fight

Mental warfare wouldn't work in 2021. Maybe it worked in 2015

 

[jeff7b9]

Charles
Poirier
Gaethje
Dariush
Chandler
Ferg
Rda
Hooker
Islam
Gillepse

He beats everyone except Gaethje and Diamond imo. RDA, Islam, Dariush and Aloe Vera are 50-50 fights.

Only clear victory would be a shot Tony or Dan Hooker

Tony is the only fight I would clearly favor Conor in at this point, but I wouldn't count Tony out, Conor has no grappling and Tony can take a shot.

He could catch some guys, Gillespie, Islam, Dariush .... But if he doesn't do it before he gets taken down he is fucked.

 

[Bob Sapp]

Charles - he can TKO charles on the feet but Charles can take down McGregor guranteed and McGregors fucked then.
Poirier-will get destroyed for a 3rd time.
Gaethje- Conor doesnt have the cardio to last a hard fast paced 3 to 5 rounds vs Gaethje. Conor still has a punchers chance tho.
Dariush- still has a punchers chance but I think Dariush would put on a Khabib lite performance bs Conor. Dariush would basically do what Khabib did.
Chandler- Conor has a very good chance vs Chandler. Chandler is chinny imo and leaves himself open for counters.
Ferg- Conor can beat this version of Ferguson. Tony is in the same boat as Conor now.
Rda- Conor loses to RDA
Hooker- has to finish early. Will run into cardio problems again.
Islam- will get destroyed by Makachev
Gillepse- winnable fight for Conor. Gregor has bad striking. Easy KO win

 

[Orochimaru 大蛇丸]

He has hardly competed in the past 5 years and now is coming off a broken leg... who knows

 

[Dirty Frank]

Charles
Poirier
Gaethje
Dariush
Chandler
Ferg
Rda
Hooker
Islam
Gillepse

He beats everyone except Gaethje and Diamond imo. RDA, Islam, Dariush and Aloe Vera are 50-50 fights.

Only clear victory would be a shot Tony or Dan Hooker

He has a puncher's chance against RDA and Hooker. But it's not as good as he likes to think

 

[gotBooched]

Mental warfare wouldn't work in 2021. Maybe it worked in 2015

He’s only tried it on a guy that beat his ass already.

 

[accolyte1022]

Runs trough them.

Hops on one leg.

 

[Tevfik1907]

Charles
Poirier
Gaethje
Dariush
Chandler
Ferg
Rda
Hooker
Islam
Gillepse

He beats everyone except Gaethje and Diamond imo. RDA, Islam, Dariush and Aloe Vera are 50-50 fights.

Only clear victory would be a shot Tony or Dan Hooker

I think he can beat Dan Hooker and maybe Tony in a very close fight, since Tony got damaged a lot after Gaethje fight. Pre-Gaethje fight Ferguson would beat Conor too.

Gaethje is also stylistically perfect for Conor since Gaethje won't shoot takedowns, he is a defensive wrestler with very high level TDD, but he can damage Conor's legs with leg kicks before Conor can land anything significant on Gaethje, so that will be a very tough fight for Conor too.

Others are all high level grapplers, wrestlers who can pressure Conor whenever they want. Even no.14 Thiago and no.15 Arman can beat Conor with grappling/wrestling at this point, Conor's takedown defense got even worse in second and third Poirier fights.

As Khabib said, Conor can beat fighters like Cowboy Cerrone at this point, but not top 10.

 

[horseshoe_pass man]

hard to tell people want to make out like hes a bum but he has only lost to khabib and #1 ranked poirier. he landed on poirier in both recent fights, especially the first rematch. who knows how the other guys at LW would handle his boxing or how their chins would hold up against that. he could end up landing even more on them, most these guys probably havent experienced anybody with conors hands. he surprises people with shots. dustin is the top guy in the division so losing to him doesnt make him a bum. we shall see. the wrestlers are a bad matchup but he has underrated TDD, his last 2 fights have just been sloppy in that regard for some reason

 

[TheAmericanGazelle]

In terms of pure skills, these are the tiers I see (IMHO):

Charles
Poirier
Gaethje

Dariush
Chandler
Islam

Ferg
Rda
Hooker

Gillepse

He's obviously not in the upper tier or the bottom, but whether he's in that 2nd or 3rd tier can only be determined by him actually taking fights frequently. Fighting once in a blue moon against nothing but elites doesn't give a good sense of where in the top 10 he falls.

 

[BangBang]

I think he's struggle to beat more than a couple.

 

[Tony Ferguson]

Only gets a W from Tony if that

watch your mouth jabroni