Conor Is Still Criminally Underrated

Oddly enough, McGregor is both under rated and over rated at the same time. To his fans, he's an unstoppable destroyer, the best striker MMA has ever seen. To his detractors, he's a bum who made his name off of fighting smaller men and favorable matchups. As usual, the truth is somewhere in between.
 
Dude is entertaining... So pumped for this fight. But love or hate we are talking about him.
 
GBJohn said:
Oddly enough, McGregor is both under rated and over rated at the same time. To his fans, he's an unstoppable destroyer, the best striker MMA has ever seen. To his detractors, he's a bum who made his name off of fighting smaller men and favorable matchups. As usual, the truth is somewhere in between.
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Spoken like a true hater. He's arguably the best striker ever in MMA.
 
johncola said:
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You're exactly who the crying chick meme was made for. What an embarrassment you are.
 
He is a great fighter but I wouldn’t say he’s underrated.
 
c0rbin9 said:
His initial run through the featherweight division was effortless domination, and it doesn't get enough credit. Nobody mentions the fact that he fights injured (Max Holloway and Chad Mendes), faces whoever is available when an opponent pulls out, and generally does not give a shit who they put in front of him. 3/7 of his featherweight fights were with all time greats in the division, fights he dominated from start to finish.

Most fighters, even the great ones, usually take a little damage over the course of many fights. In McGregor's first seven fights in the UFC, he barely got hit at all, 5/7 received "Performance of the Night" bonuses, and were just flawless, effortless knockout victories that made his elite opponents look like amateurs and his amateur opponents look like bums off the street.

On top of all this he fights Nate Diaz on short notice at 170, dominates Diaz until he gasses, and then avenges the loss, again at 170, instead of returning to his own weight class and chalking up the loss to being outweighed like most fighters would have done.

He gets better every fight. His latest fight with Alvarez was the best we've seen - how about the KO combo where he landed 4 punches while Eddie was falling in midair? Just crazy.

The hate he gets is unbelievable. He's a knockout artist with unparalleled technique - he should be considered in the same breath as the other greats at this point, yet here we are debating with half the forum that he's just some playboy moneymaker clown who will be exposed.
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Right now there's a good likelihood that he'll fall right into the footsteps of the previous GOAT and sabotage his own career. They're both wizards in the octagon and idiots outside of it.
 
well with the infusion of WWE type hype over the past few years, the whole mma fight scene has changed, and maybe for the better.
as long as the fighters still bring their shit to cage and srsly try to kill the other guy
it's all good.
the first time I see a folding chair though, I'm out for good.
 
What's amusing is how shallow and hypocritical most of the critiques people make about him are. Example: People love to claim that he only excels when beating up on fighters smaller than him, yet when he loses to a fighter larger than himself (Nate Diaz, whom had a bigger advantage in size than Conor had over any of his opponents, barring Brimage and Mendes), they'll then ignore the size differential and just laugh as they point out, "Huh huh, he lost to a gatekeeper."

Like another poster said, the truth is in the middle. Conor isn't the undisputed, undeniable GOAT, but he's much, much better than people wanna admit he is. He's won every one of his fights except for three, and nearly all of his victories came within the first two rounds. He has two of the most impressive championship wins in history. That's pretty incredible.
 
Conor jumping directly to 1 at LW after a huge lay off = criminally underrated.


Thanks OP
 
How do you rate someone who's last fight was with a bus?
 
c0rbin9 said:
...Nobody mentions the fact that he fights injured (Max Holloway and Chad Mendes), faces whoever is available when an opponent pulls out, and generally does not give a shit who they put in front of him
....The hate he gets is unbelievable
...he should be considered in the same breath as the other greats at this point.
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Conor fans and sports journalists literally ALWAYS mention that...

He gets way more love than hate. Go to any sports bar during one of his fights and see what I’m talking about. Or go to an autograph sigining or publicity event and watch him be worshipped by thousands...

Even Conor haters admit he belongs in the conversation of best 145ers and 155ers of all time. Where the debate starts is trying to give him that number 1 spot, or pound for pound, because he has never defended a title. Plenty of good fighters have won the belt one time, only the great few have been able to defend it.

Your post is a little delusional
 
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