Aldo vs McGregor at UFC 189: the insane crowd

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It struck me recently.

A title fight between Aldo and McGregor is scheduled for UFC 189, at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.

I don't go into details about the match-up itself. What struck me was the aspect that usually was overlooked: the crowd. On the one hand, you have Brazilian fans who will undoubtely travel in huge masses to support their lone UFC champion (or just one of two, if you include Werdum's interim title) like they did for Anderson Silva. On the other hand, Irish fans will come to support their biggest hope, a fighter willing to respesent the whole country. And, of course, there will be random American fans who are indifferent to both fighters, but will, probably, lean towards McGregor just because he sort of speaks something resembling English. That's three parties and... Just imagine one third of the arena chanting "Uh vai morrer", another third chanting "Conor McGregor" and the rest of it just yelling, all of this at the same time! Insane, isn't it?
 
Reach4theSky said:
Should be good, you going?
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I'm European, it will require a lot of preparation and effort to get there. I consider it a possibility though, especially if a month before the event Aldo is still on the card.
 
The Irish fans should make their own fight song for Connor McGregor like the British did for Ricky Hatton
 
That's a lot of energy housed under 1 roof...
 
Satanical Eve said:
The Irish fans should make their own fight song for Connor McGregor like the British did for Ricky Hatton
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"Walking in a Ricky Hatton Wonderland" could get pretty annoying. We have "Ole Ole Ole" and I'm sure enough people find that tiresome after a while.

Anyway should be fun, though on a whole we love Brazilians.
 
I'm not sure how apparent it is to Europeans, but in the States we're not as nationalistic in this regard. We don't support Americans simply because they're Americans. I've often cheered for a foreign fighter against an American one (Gus vs Rumble, for example, Aldo vs Mendes for another), and I don't anticipate a large number of Brazilians in Vegas for the Aldo/Conor fight. It will be mostly Americans, and the crowd will be split between Aldo and Conor. A lot of Americans think that having 1 great-grand parent who was Irish makes them Irish and are proud of this "heritage" that they have and will support Conor on that basis alone, but there are others who don't like Conor's antics and have been fans of Aldo for years. And still others will just want to see a great fight between two dynamic and exciting strikers.

The crowd will be great, but it won't be like Brazil vs Ireland in football (soccer to us Americans).
 
M Raid K said:
It struck me recently.

A title fight between Aldo and McGregor is scheduled for UFC 189, at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.

I don't go into details about the match-up itself. What struck me was the aspect that usually was overlooked: the crowd. On the one hand, you have Brazilian fans who will undoubtely travel in huge masses to support their lone UFC champion (or just one of two, if you include Werdum's interim title) like they did for Anderson Silva. On the other hand, Irish fans will come to support their biggest hope, a fighter willing to respesent the whole country. And, of course, there will be random American fans who are indifferent to both fighters, but will, probably, lean towards McGregor just because he sort of speaks something resembling English. That's three parties and... Just imagine one third of the arena chanting "Uh vai morrer", another third chanting "Conor McGregor" and the rest of it just yelling, all of this at the same time! Insane, isn't it?
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God I hope Aldo can last more than 1 round. Conor bless.
 
It will be a lot of brazilian yes, but 90% of them lives in usa.
 
WinZip said:
I'm not sure how apparent it is to Europeans, but in the States we're not as nationalistic in this regard. We don't support Americans simply because they're Americans. I've often cheered for a foreign fighter against an American one (Gus vs Rumble, for example, Aldo vs Mendes for another), and I don't anticipate a large number of Brazilians in Vegas for the Aldo/Conor fight. It will be mostly Americans, and the crowd will be split between Aldo and Conor. A lot of Americans think that having 1 great-grand parent who was Irish makes them Irish and are proud of this "heritage" that they have and will support Conor on that basis alone, but there are others who don't like Conor's antics and have been fans of Aldo for years. And still others will just want to see a great fight between two dynamic and exciting strikers.

The crowd will be great, but it won't be like Brazil vs Ireland in football (soccer to us Americans).
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Except that in football the Irish have almost zero chance of winning, and in this case I think it is much closer to 50-50, although Aldo still has to be considered the favorite.
 
I'll bet my account that at some point during the fight the American fans start chanting USA.
 
The Eraser said:
Except that in football the Irish have almost zero chance of winning, and in this case I think it is much closer to 50-50, although Aldo still has to be considered the favorite.
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...I think you may have missed the point of my post.
 
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