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He had a guy who had less than 2 week to prepare, is smaller, and still, when the fight got hard, was looking for help out a bad situation. It was not till gassed out chad dove for a hail mary submission did conor "fight like hell" to scramble out of it. Not hard to do that against a gassed out opponent.You're confusing 2 different things. Conor at no point came close to giving up in the Mendes fight. When you say "he looked for a way out" you aren't referring to that. He looked for a way into a more advantagegous position. Any competitive advantage possible: That's how sportspeople operate. In soccer. In basketball. In MMA. In all sports. PEDs. Eye gouging. Complaining about elbows. Chad did all those, 2 of which are illegal. There's a lot more that exist in the sport.
So, getting back to the point, Conor reacted well to the adverstiy in the Mendes fight. He took the overhand bombs on the feet, and kept marching forward. NO ONE does that. After getting up from takedowns, he IMMEDIATELY went to work. NO ONE does that. When Chad went for the guillotine, Conor fought to get out of it. He fought like a man possessed that night, and at the same time, it was the most mortal he had looked in any fight. That was of course until Nate hit him with the 1-2 in March.
Anyhow, if he loses again next week at least you guys will disappear for awhile again.