Anyone else Notice / Appreciate the True Irony of Last Night?

[The Bard]

Conor McGregor has a movement coach and claims to study how animals move. He throws spinning TKD and capoeira techniques. He had a large portion of the MMA community convinced that he had the "new" blueprint to massive success. And to some extent, I suppose he did. It worked for him, and he's had a hell of a run and perhaps a long career still ahead of him, but, with all of the new techniques and training methods and all of the talk, one thing did not escape me:

He lost to the most basic, ancient boxing combination and the most basic submission grappling technique. The ol' one-two and the rear naked choke. In 2016. Quite a poetic ending to that scrap. In MMA, I suppose what you do is less important than how you do it.

 

[alexxx]

Conor McGregor has a movement coach and claims to study how animals move. He throws spinning TKD and capoeira techniques. He had a large portion of the MMA community convinced that he had the "new" blueprint to massive success. And to some extent, I suppose he did. It worked for him, and he's had a hell of a run and perhaps a long career still ahead of him, but, with all of the new techniques and training methods and all of the talk, one thing did not escape me:

He lost to the most basic, ancient boxing combination and the most basic submission grappling technique. The ol' one-two and the rear naked choke. In 2016. Quite a poetic ending to that scrap. Conor might want to go back to basics for a while.

probably couldnt have thought out a better way for the fight to go myself

 

[Substance Abuse]

That 'new' blueprint didn't come equipped with the 'learn how to throw leg kicks to a guy who refuses to check them' manual, did it?

 

[The Bard]

That 'new' blueprint didn't come equipped with the 'learn how to throw leg kicks to a guy who refuses to check them' manual, did it?

Yeah, I couldn't believe it after seeing the success Johnson had against Nate in Nate's last fight. Perhaps it was one of those "bought his own hype" moments, where Conor figured he could just fight his fight, land that left and walk away a winner, no need to do that silly gameplanning stuff...

 

[DizzyYeahYeah]

Ido LITERALLY had Conor doing, yoga, pilates, capoeira and calisthenics!!!!!

I bet Conor ditches Ido.

 

[LukeSkyRutten]

Conor McGregor has a movement coach and claims to study how animals move. He throws spinning TKD and capoeira techniques. He had a large portion of the MMA community convinced that he had the "new" blueprint to massive success. And to some extent, I suppose he did. It worked for him, and he's had a hell of a run and perhaps a long career still ahead of him, but, with all of the new techniques and training methods and all of the talk, one thing did not escape me:

He lost to the most basic, ancient boxing combination and the most basic submission grappling technique. The ol' one-two and the rear naked choke. In 2016. Quite a poetic ending to that scrap. In MMA, I suppose what you do is less important than how you do it.

The fundamentals have lasted this long for a reason. Boxing is the most dominant striking art for a reason. It beats all. Conor could learn a thing or two from Anderson on how to beat a Diaz.

 

[The Bard]

The fundamentals have lasted this long for a reason.

This made me think of another funny thing. When UFC started, it advertised that it wanted to find out which martial art was the best. Early UFC's suggested grappling arts. But as time went on, of course, everyone has realized that a mixture of skills is important.

All the snake oil salesmen, the kung fu guys, the sumo guys, ninja shit, all of that crap got called out and lost to good ol' wrestling and boxing with some jitz and muay thai thrown in.

Fast forward to 2016 and, while everyone at least understands that the basics are important, we're back to snake oil salesmen saying their "art" or special approach gives guys the edge. Dolce's bro science. Ido Portal. Seagal. Brawk's weird conditioning shit. Training your kids with bears. Even the GOAT did some unorthodox stuff with training in parks and spinning around with your finger in front of your eyes.

The more things change, the more they stay the same I guess.

 

[m52nickerson]

Everyone has a plan...until they get punched in the face.