Conor Is Still Criminally Underrated

ThePatriot said:
Idk he one punched Aldo
I'm not married to that idea really
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Aldo was obviously done, but Big John put his lights out.

Conor drops people off the counter when they are moving into his punches. Anderson does also obviously, but Anderson showed his power when leading much more. I don't think its even close. Especially since Anderson has power in his kicks, elbows, hands and knees
 
c0rbin9 said:
People ignore his victories over top caliber fighters like they didn't happen - Aldo defeated in 13 seconds, Mendes 2nd round TKO, Alvarez lopsided beating TKO
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And those that ignore his wins are simply trolling and need to be ignored. When you knock out the greatest of all time in a division in less than 20 seconds, then go up a class and embarrass the LW champ, I’d say that you are pretty damn good. Yeah pretty good.
 
peacemaster said:
Conor is the definition of an over rated fighter

What is wrong with you people ?
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True. McGregor is rated too highly by most of his fans. He's also underrated. Most of his critics don't see just how good he is at fighting. When he was active, he was probably the best striker in the UFC.
 
I already saw the interview Dana. Although I applaud you being thorough and posting the same thing on sherdog as well
 
Anti-Conor MMA fans are elitist hipsters who are biased by their disdain for his popularity amongst casuals and for his money-based matchmaking. They are no different from someone who stops liking a band once they become popular simply because they are popular.

Amusingly they secretly consider themselves MMA experts, able to appreciate the finer details of the sport which apparently Conor doesn't display since he knocks people out too quickly.

What they fail to perceive is that stripping away all the hyperbolic trash talk, the aura of celebrity, the wild antics - you are left with one of the most impressive fighters to ever grace the roster.
 
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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c0rbin9 said:
Just because he is a huge celebrity doesn't mean he's overrated.

Stick to the facts and consider his resume. @PROlogic on this forum said it best, if he beats Khabib that will be the second 10+ year undefeated fighter in their prime he has beaten - Aldo at 25-1 and Khabib at 26-0. No other MMA fighter has come close to that, and he has done it in the most stacked divisions in the sport!

All the excuses and "but what if..." from the anti-Conor crowd could be said about any great fighter as active as Conor. Jones gets exposed in his first fight with young fighter his size (Gustaffson), Silva was fighting bums, GSP fought for decisions, etc.
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c0rbin9 said:
A lot of MMA fans have this Hollywood idea that to be a great fighter you have to be this humble, respectful, Gracie-type gentleman killer. The truth is the competition is cage fighting, and some wild crazy Irishman isn't necessarily a bad fighter just because he doesn't fit the stereotype of being an honorbound bushido artist.

It's the same uniqueness that makes him great that makes it easy for people to caricature him as a buffoon - the lopsided, quick knockouts make it easy for people to say the victory was a fluke; his technical mastery of primarily using his hands makes people think he is imbalanced elsewhere (he isn't), the extreme self-confidence makes people think he is BSing.
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c0rbin9 said:
People ignore his victories over top caliber fighters like they didn't happen - Aldo defeated in 13 seconds, Mendes 2nd round TKO, Alvarez lopsided beating TKO
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Godamn @PROlogic look for medical attention.
You need help.
Writing absurdity in essays about a fighter,creating a new id every single time you get banned.
Creating alternative ids to corroborate your own insane bias.

You suck and your sick kid,im serious.
Go look for help.
 
The thing is, some of us saw his movement and striking in his first UFC fight and were saying back then that he would be an all time great. Well now he has defeated Aldo, become the first ever double champ, so it seems we were right.

The same people now who are saying he's good but not great were the ones who said he would never beat a top 5 opponent, never would beat a wrestler, never would beat Aldo.

Now he's done all that and its just crickets about those accomplishments.

I believe he will crush a few top ranked lightweights like he did in the FW division. Even the haters will come around eventually, they will be forced to.
 
c0rbin9 said:
People ignore his victories over top caliber fighters like they didn't happen - Aldo defeated in 13 seconds, Mendes 2nd round TKO, Alvarez lopsided beating TKO
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It's so funny how Conor fans will say he was dominating Nate Diaz until he gassed, yet won't say the opposite of when he fought Chad Mendes. They only gloat about the 2nd round TKO, yet seem to forget he got dominated in the 1st round before Chad gassed.
 
I concede that, he had a tough time with Chad in that first round.

However a single bad round out of an entire career does not disqualify.
 
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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Sounds like excuses why he turned into a wrestler against nate
 
So a guy who was widely called the goat, with people predicting he'd ko Floyd, and win the welterweight belt one day is underrated

So pretty much unless you've tossed conors salad ts thinks you don't appreciate him enough
 
LockardTheGOAT said:
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."
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actually that only proves the point people are making . The only time Conor fought someone his own size or bigger he ran into problems. Furthermore, Brimage and Mendes are the only ones that are way smaller than him. Even when Conor "went up in weight" to fight Alvares he had a significant size advantage

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