Conor having bad cardio is a myth

[snaportap21]

He's had 2 fights that went past the third round and he gassed in both of them. in the Nate rematch he took rounds 3 and 4 off because of his cardio. He gassed vs Khabib by the 3rd round. His punches at that point had basically no power, Khabib just decided to play with him a bit on the feet in that round.
He was also gassed 1/2 way through the Floyd bout.

His cardio is sub-par.

mcgregor won rd 4

 

[campbecc]

how stupid of us... you are so right and the rest of the planet is so wrong.....
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there would be more but Connor was busy either with sleepy time or getting carried out on a stretcher in those Dustin fights ... so other than excuses where is our evidence of post fight Mcgregor ready to run a marathon? or do anything other than hit the showers?

He did have enough energy to try to follow Khabib out of the cage after he saw Khabib was attacking his friends. I don't like much about Conor but I do give him credit for loyalty for being willing to fight a guy who just kicked his ass to help a friend.

 

[Shabal]

Has cardio very good until punch hard in face. Connie get lots of punch like this in last fights

 

[CedricBee]

One thing that I’ve noticed in this thread is the notion that Conor is the only explosive fighter to have stamina issues. Aldo had stamina issues for years, and actually got better at pacing himself. Chandler currently has stamina issues but I’ve also seen him pace himself before. Conor has similar issues but the notion that he can’t pace himself is ridiculous. Even BJ Penn showed decent cardio in his first fight against Frankie Edgar.

 

[markg171]

Once things start not going his way, he isn’t the kind of guy that you expect to dig deep and rally, he just coasts.

I mean:

• Holloway - knee injury mid fight, adjusts and goes on to win 30-26 anyways
• Mendes - knee injury pre-fight, massive style change, and come from behind victory
• Diaz II - Not only took the rematch in the first place, Diaz's round 3 rally happens and he comes back and wins round 4 and was winning round 5 until the last 10 seconds when he got taken down by Diaz's first successful TD all fight after defending 7 previous
• Floyd - he rallied back in round 8, unofficially winning it on many peoples cards
• Khabib - comes back from round Khabib's round 2 onslaught in round 3 egging him on, and defends every TDD, forces a completely standup fight, and becomes the first person ever to win a round off him. Then after the fight when he sees Khabib jump the fence to attack Danis Conor runs over and jumps it too and starts fighting Khabib's team
• Dustin III - his leg was literally broken in half and he was still talking shit lol

He can rally for sure and has proven that.

It's more that, very similar to Brock, he's seemingly uncomfortable being pushed when his main weapon's taken away + he has in his back pocket the truckloads of money to always live to fight another day instead of worrying about half his pay being affected by a loss like other fighters.

 

[StonedLemur]

I know your name is don't ask but.... what the hell is going on in your av?

That guy is watching live wolf porn sir lol.

 

[Neck&Neck]

What if i told you,Conor himself was a myth?

 

[RageQuitLord]

Conor doesn’t have a cardio issue, he has a pacing issue. He pushes an unsustainable pace for the first round. Even world class marathon runners can fatigue if they sprint for the mile.

As a guy who absolutely despises McGregor this is exactly how I see it too.

 

[aali14]

You realize Conor fighting "up two weightclasses" essentially means he didn't cut any weight, meaning he's in even better condition / shape than usual in that fight because he's skipping any dieting and weight cutting?

 

[RageQuitLord]

He choked in the first Nate fight.

He basically shit himself when he started getting tired, and got wobbled by two successive Nate Diaz left-crosses ... so he "went for the takedown" as the easy way out ...

So ironic that Conor actually uses the, "The first man to go for a takedown is a bitch," assessment — when he basically invented it. He's right, and he should know <Lmaoo>

The reason he made up the term panic wrestlers is because he himself is a panic wrestler hahahaha what a little fookin rat

 

[Izzysexboyfriend]

He did not make it into the 12th rd he lost in the 10th and was exhausted.

10 rounds in your first ever pro boxing match against literally the best boxer is impressive. He could’ve lasted the entire fight if Floyd didn’t start really putting it on which really drained him. The 9th rd he was still game and even hurt Floyd with a body shot.

 

[daltonames]

mcgregor won rd 4

Fair correction. thank you.

 

[markys00]

His cardio is average at best for a supposed elite fighter. The fear he feels when he can't get a lucky punch in early is what really drains it though.

Lucky? Stop drinking the cool aid

 

[acannxr]

He’s only gassed in ONE fight and that was his first fight moving up 2 weight classes. It’s easily excusable that he gassed in the first Nate fight, he spent almost 2 rounds butchering Nate and trying to finish him. I think he really just wasn’t prepared to go 5 rounds against a cardio machine and thought he would get rid of Nate early, which wasn’t happening so he mentally broke which led to him gassing.

Then he went 5 grueling rounds with Nate and won the rematch. So
what other fight did he gas? The Khabib fight he was getting grappled for 4 rounds which would happen to any one. The Dustin fight he lost mobility in his leg which led to the KO. He even went 10 rounds with Floyd while having a heavy output throughout the fight.

Just watch the Mendes and Nate 2 fights. Conor having horrible cardio is a myth

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[Canadian Kicker]

His cardio is not garbage but it is not one of his strong suits. He has faced both Nate and Khabib who are both great at using cardio as a weapon. Yes, Connor was susceptible to this but so were a lot of other fighters. I'd put Connor's somewhere around average.

 

[SalvadorAllende]

Not that we were able to see it lately since he got smoked pretty quick by Dustin twice in a row.

Conor is done.

 

[weaselkenievil]

It's more that, very similar to Brock, he's seemingly uncomfortable being pushed when his main weapon's taken away + he has in his back pocket the truckloads of money to always live to fight another day instead of worrying about half his pay being affected by a loss like other fighters.

A new excuse for Conor I haven't heard before. He's so rich he doesn't mind losing. Amazing mental gymnastics <Lmaoo>

 

[markg171]

A new excuse for Conor I haven't heard before. He's so rich he doesn't mind losing. Amazing mental gymnastics <Lmaoo>

That's not what I said. I said guys like Conor and Brock have guaranteed pay by the UFC, not the usual show/win purse structures. They don't have half their income on the line every fight like the majority of fighters do who need to win if they want to make their full salary.

Which yes, is a massive incentive to win and it's ridiculous to pretend that it's not. It's, you know, why the sport structures the majority of purses that way: they want the fighters literally fighting for their purses as that in theory will produce better fights. Both guys have money on the line, therefore both guys will fight harder.

Guys like Jones and Benson years ago signed show only contracts and suddenly started coasting to decisions every fight after previously being some of the most exciting fighters, but sure it totally doesn't affect fighters motivations to know your pay is guaranteed no matter what. And that's at a tiny fraction of the money. Let alone how literally every card features some guy at the pre-press conference saying he needs to win Saturday if he wants to get paid.

It's still up to the fighters themselves to come up with their motivation to win. But pretending knowing half your pay isn't on the line doesn't affect your motivations to win is pure nonsense. Everybody knows the win bonus effects fighters, this has literally never been controversial until suddenly right now apparently. Stop with the fake outrage that this is some controversial new thing.

 

[Ayreon]

If you really analyze it, Conor not only lacks Champion-level stamina, he lacks Champion-level heart.

The moment Conor 1) starts getting exhausted, and 2) legitimately perceives he can no longer win, he quits.

He will never be the kind of fighter to make an epic comeback, based on sheer guts and willpower.

I don't think it's not having the heart.

I think it's having the intelligence to accept that he's exausted and he's not gonna win and any additional damage taken is just a gift to his CTE.

That's why he gave his back to Nate on the first fight.

I don't think he surrended against Khabib. I think Khabib was toying with him and he decided when and how end the fight.

 

[dildos]

Conor has terrible cardio. Fact.