Any gifs of Conor's "flashy" striking?

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For the whole first segment of the fight, honestly it was some of the most spectacular striking displays I have ever seen in mma. Conor haters are blinded by the fact that he did, in fact display a vast array of creative, effective and dominant striking and I still find it bittersweet that he did end up losing. Yeah, he lost, but holy shit. This was like watching a super aggressive Anderson Silva - No joke.

This coming from an huge Aldo fan and former McGregor doubter. I should be happy he lost and was "exposed" but really, he wasn't exposed in fact it seemed to me like the much better guy ended up losing for lack of solid gameplan. Obviously Conor also has some work to do on his ground game, but his standup was a treat to watch.

If anybody has a collection of awesome gifs of Nate getting a brutal beating - actually I attribute his ability to take punishment as one of the reason why he ended up winning eventually - it would be very much apprieciated. Some of those moves are just too fast to really appreciate in real time.
 
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Thuckey said:
For the whole first segment of the fight, honestly it was some of the most spectacular striking displays I have ever seen in mma. Conor haters are blinded by the fact that he did, in fact display a vast array of creative, effective and dominant striking and I still find it bittersweet that he did end up losing. Yeah, he lost, but holy shit. This was like watching a super aggressive Anderson Silva - No joke.

This coming from an huge Aldo fan and former McGregor doubter. I should be happy he lost and was "exposed" but really, he wasn't exposed in fact it seemed to me like the much better guy ended up losing for lack of solid gameplan. Obviously Conor also has some work to do on his ground game, but his standup was a treat to watch.

If anybody has a collection of awesome gifs of Nate getting a brutal beating - actually I attribute his ability to take punishment as one of the reason why he ended up winning eventually - it would be very much apprieciated. Some of those moves are just too fast to really appreciate in real time.
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No I don't but, I have these one. I think is awesome Hope you like it, enjoy...

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I'll have to re-watch the fight but for the most part I remember Conor doing most of the damage, untill of course the momentum shifted.

Was it really more even than I remember? Like I said I'll have to rewatch.

Although I do remember Conor taunting NAte, bring up his hands going "WHAT!?"

Then Nate of course firing right back at him later and doing the same taunt back.

I don't think I've seen a Nate fight where the other dude was doing most of the talking but it seems Nate just kept his cool, survived the onslaught let Conor wear himself out then attacked. Great performance.
 
I was very impressed by Conor's head movement actually. Looked slightly like prime Anderson Silva for a minute there.
 
Conor showed amazing acrobatic creative striking.....yep.....so does a karate guy when he goes through his elaborate kata. All that flash and dance....didn't hurt Nate a bit. A cut...yes...skin cuts. Any fighter will say a cut is nothing. Doesn't affect anything its just broken skin and bleeding.

If ANYTHING Nates cut hurt Conor more. He saw the blood and saw Diaz just warming up and picking his moment to pounce and finish it. He saw he couldn't hurt Nate.
 
Man, it was amazing! Conor was winning...until he lost.
 
I must say that Nate, not even that long ago guys were saying if he losses again hell be done in the UFC. Now look at him.

Never count out the Diaz brothers. Either way I knew this fight would rock.
 
"while he was winning" lol, yeah, at what point was he winning?
 
Thuckey said:
I'll have to re-watch the fight but for the most part I remember Conor doing most of the damage, untill of course the momentum shifted.

Was it really more even than I remember? Like I said I'll have to rewatch.
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Yes it was more even than you remember.

Conor clearly won the round 10-9, and landed the harder shots. But he also missed a whole lot, wasted a ton of energy on shitty capoiera kicks, and was blatantly headhunting with no sense of pace. Nate was never in any trouble at all and was exchanging well at times. Conor was able to counter his jab a lot, until he slowed down.... then the jab was finding a home in Conors mouth at will and he got shredded.

Sure, he was impressive for 1 round in a 5 round fight. But lets not forget, Nate is a slow starter coming in on 10 days notice with no sparring, so I tend to believe Nate that this is how he envisioned it going- he knew he would need time to get in the rhythm. Nate was outstruck early in fights vs Jim Miller, Michael Johnson, Melvin guillard, and others were taking it to him early as well. Didn't matter for those guys, didn't matter for Conor.
 
Thuckey said:
Well there was that first round
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The problem was the head hunting. Conor was trying way too hard to KO Nate.

He needed to stick the gameplan that he talked about in the lead up to the fight.. attacking the legs and body.

If some of those glancing and missed lefts were targeted at Diaz's body.. pretty sure it would have been a different outcome.
 
Upon review of the fight, changed the title to not be as biased.

Yeah Nate did a fantastic job.
 
:insert gif of fancy spinning kick which hits nothing but air here:
:insert gif of lunging uppercut which misses here:
 
Thuckey said:
Conor haters are blinded by the fact that he did, in fact display a vast array of creative, effective and dominant striking and I still find it bittersweet that he did end up losing.

I should be happy he lost and was "exposed" but really, he wasn't exposed in fact it seemed to me like the much better guy ended up losing for lack of solid gameplan.
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Conor was exposed for a few reasons...you hit the nail on the head with lacking a solid game plan, but we also learned that his chin may not be as good as we originally thought and lastly, he needs cardio. Conor expects to go in and end the fight quickly against whomever he faces, and sometimes you simply need a back up plan.

Nate landed 5 less punches than Conor in the opening round, and out landed Conor by 23 strikes by the time it was over.
 
He delivered some devastating blows to air in the 1st
 
BrainBar said:
Conor showed amazing acrobatic creative striking.....yep.....so does a karate guy when he goes through his elaborate kata. All that flash and dance....didn't hurt Nate a bit. A cut...yes...skin cuts. Any fighter will say a cut is nothing. Doesn't affect anything its just broken skin and bleeding.

If ANYTHING Nates cut hurt Conor more. He saw the blood and saw Diaz just warming up and picking his moment to pounce and finish it. He saw he couldn't hurt Nate.
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Nate didn't get medically suspended because of a cut.
 
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