Media Conor McGregor has been working on his Boxing

[Tapatio]

Poirier working that speed bag

 

[BearGrounds]

It's sort of poetic to see Conor devolve into the kind of fighter he used to openly critique.

Sad, but poetic.

I see stiffness.

 

[JudoJabs]

It's sort of poetic to see Conor devolve into the kind of fighter he used to openly critique.

Sad, but poetic.

I see stiffness.

That’s age and inactivity.

The replies in this thread are very telling though.

MMA can not get out of it’s own circle jerk bubble sadly.

 

[BearGrounds]

That’s age and inactivity.

The replies in this thread are very telling though.

MMA can not get out of it’s own circle jerk bubble sadly.

It's more than that, it's also his mentality which went to shit via drug abuse, fame, and fortune.

 

[Sean_wongster_wongmastter]

Conor’s technique has always been very very good

Best pure boxer in mma.

 

[Chillez]

Conor is washed up and his boxing is overrated.

 

[BoomStronk]

And he almost lost it with a giant CM Punk opening shot that Cowboy obviously dunked under.

Dunno how you can't see the regression in trying something like that, as well as missing it by how badly he did. It was a quick 40 second KO overall yes, but wow he lucked out that that wasn't an immediate TD and he didn't spend the round on his back.

He did something similar against Mendes by opening their fight with a flying knee which Mendes took him down off of, but there he escaped back to his feet on his own and legitimately earned his way back up. This was just Cowboy luckily fucked up his TD attempt whereas a guy like GSP, Chris, or DJ would've had the perfect TD setup.

I agree he'd have most likely lost, but I disagree about 100% losing.
- Opening shot was a flying knee that was an inch away from KOing Khabib. It still hit him in his clavicle and stopped him dead in his tracks as is
- First round otherwise was relatively uneventful where Conor showed he could keep Khabib from advancing and was defending well.
- 2nd round went so poorly because nobody expected the early KD, least of all Khabib. Conor legitimately defended the kimura no matter how many people complain about the illegal knee which occurred a a full 30 seconds before Khabib actually cranked it. The kimura failed because Conor was blocking Khabib from stepping over his head for leverage, exactly as he needed to. That's proper defence by Conor. And Conor still escaped back to his feet with 1 minute left and stalled him out
- 3rd round Conor won. No Khabib didn't take it off or take it easy. He attempted his most TDs all fight, Conor just defended them and forced a standup fight where he was better. Say it was close all you want, it's still a round for Conor. If he does that again for rounds 4-5 and it's a draw, let alone if he'd widened things by scoring a 10-8 of his own which would've given him the decision.
- Round 4 Conor was winning the standup before the TD, perhaps even landing his best shot all fight but Khabib does have an iron chin. After the TD he escaped full mount by Khabib before Khabib transitioned into the eventual sub.

It was always a bad stylistic matchup but Conor did do the best of anybody against Khabib barring Tibau. He legitimately does have the most interesting combination of great striking and good defensive grappling of anybody Khabib fought and it showed. And it would've been a lot more interesting without the 2 year layoff and Floyd fight in between. Eddie Conor, which mind you would've also been Johnson Khabib, would've been real nice to have seen.

It's a bad fight for Conor. But based on how it went and the circumstances it's not a 100% Khabib fight. It was his worst stylistic fight (to a good opponent as Tibau sucks) and appropriately showed as such by his first round lost (they Justin one is a travesty, that's just horrible judging). Conor is a great striker with good TDD and good defensive grappling and so it was always an interesting matchup whereas Poirier, Tony, and Justin had shit TDD or defensive grappling (or not even a clear striking advantage).

Poirier never improved (to be better). Conor regressed to be possibly worse.

Poirier himself say Conor flash KO'd him in the 1st with his left again but never followed up to finish him while he was hurt. There's another moment where Conor sends him stumbling back with his right in the 1st but again doesn't follow up as he was expecting that shot to KO Poirier and so had nothing lined up next.

3rd fight is just stupid to talk about as it's one of the biggest freak injuries in MMA. It wasn't some Weidman/Anderson 2, Conor just stepped back and his leg crumpled.

Conor's entire problem is that he's regressed into this guy looking for 1 shot KOs even though that's never been appropriate to his power level (even if he's 1 shotted guys like Aldo and Buchinger). He needs that combo, pressure heavy style he had before where shots were always comings. Guys weren't kidding when they said they had no idea what he hit them with: he was a master at hitting them while they were still reacting to the previous shot.

Peak Conor was the shit he was landing on Brimage:

Nothing was full power, nothing was full accuracy, but they just kept coming and Brimage crumpled eventually. THAT's Conor's best style. He has good+ power, great accuracy, and great timing. Combined together and it stops a lot of guys. He abandoned it for this big 1 shot based style where guys just instead recover, exactly as Poirier said he did.

excellence in posting. thanks

 

[Sean_wongster_wongmastter]

Conor is washed up and his boxing is overrated.

If anything his boxing is underrated

 

[Sean_wongster_wongmastter]

If Conor comes back successful it’d be the sherdog underdog story of the year, 90% thinks he’ll fail, if he proves everyone wrong that’s be the underdog win of all time.