Conor McGregor is MMAs Mike Tyson

[acannxr]

That wasn't necessarily the case with Mike at the time, remembering back then, time has ways of revealing things.....

Yeah, anyone who looks into the details of Tyson's alleged rape would have plenty of reasonable doubt.

From what I can remember off the top of my head:
1. The accuser made a false rape allegation in the past, but the witness wasn't allowed to testify.
2. Eyewitnesses said that she was sitting on Tyson's lap and kissing him, but they too were not allowed to testify.
3. She claimed that Tyson was forcing himself on her in the limo on the way to the hotel, yet still followed him up to his hotel room (Tyson's lawyer didn't point this out in the trial).
4. She went into the hotel bathroom to remove her pantyliner (this too was also not pointed out by Tyson's lawyer).
5. The hotel bathroom had a telephone, where she could've easily called hotel security, but she didn't (Tyson's lawyer also didn't point this out).

Points 1 & 2 are also relevant in countering the prosecution's narrative of making the victim appear like an innocent/vulnerable/angelic virgin.
Points 3, 4, & 5 are also a result of Don King hiring a lawyer who helped with getting him a tax discount and had no experience with rape trials.

 

[Chagaev]

If Tyson was a plumber trained by Kav he would have probably lost to Hector Mercedes.

 

[gevoudane]

Now before everyone gets pissy, im not saying hes on the level of Tyson. Mike was the youngest HW champ ever and actually stayed on top for a while..

But theres ALOT of things they have in common.

Both fighters once defeated suffered multiple defeats in the relative near future after the aura was gone and their weaknessses showed.

You comparisons have some flawed logic and seems like your stretching facts a bit.

One (Tyson) went on to a eight fight six year win streak after he got beat.

And boxers were still scared of Tyson there were just a few that weren't. But those were the same boxers that werent scared of Tyson before he lost.

 

[Hirashin]

Now before everyone gets pissy, im not saying hes on the level of Tyson. Mike was the youngest HW champ ever and actually stayed on top for a while..

But theres ALOT of things they have in common.

Love or hate Conor, hes got some really impressive power which is half the reason he got so popular. Tons of first round knockouts and very visually appealing style.


Both have rape charges against them

Both fighters once defeated suffered multiple defeats in the relative near future after the aura was gone and their weaknessses showed.

Both fighters had glaring weaknesses.

Both lack cardio

Both turned into shitheads when they got rich.

Both beat aging fighters to win gold.

Both are total assholes to their opponents.

But i bet you Conor wont be a big star for 30 years and retire with money

They are not comparable aside that they are both rich and famous, Tyson having earned 10 times more money.

Tyson has many belts, defended many times.

Tyson had excellent cardio.

Tyson had no known weakness in his prime.

Tyson came from the streets, he was a known criminal, real bad ass.

Tyson beat everybody. He cleared the division.

Tyson was a lunatic, he didn't fake it, especially past his prime.

 

[William Huggins]

Yeah, anyone who looks into the details of Tyson's alleged rape would have plenty of reasonable doubt.

From what I can remember off the top of my head:
1. The accuser made a false rape allegation in the past, but the witness wasn't allowed to testify.
2. Eyewitnesses said that she was sitting on Tyson's lap and kissing him, but they too were not allowed to testify.
3. She claimed that Tyson was forcing himself on her in the limo on the way to the hotel, yet still followed him up to his hotel room (Tyson's lawyer didn't point this out in the trial).
4. She went into the hotel bathroom to remove her pantyliner (this too was also not pointed out by Tyson's lawyer).
5. The hotel bathroom had a telephone, where she could've easily called hotel security, but she didn't (Tyson's lawyer also didn't point this out).

Points 1 & 2 are also relevant in countering the prosecution's narrative of making the victim appear like an innocent/vulnerable/angelic virgin.
Points 3, 4, & 5 are also a result of Don King hiring a lawyer who helped with getting him a tax discount and had no experience with rape trials.

I agree at the time with the cloud of the media, it was a shit storm.

 

[boladiQup]

 

[Mike01010101a]

Tyson is part of sport history ever, Connor is not (MMA is not a well known and recognized sport yet). In Tyson age (I mean late '80s, early '90s) in a no social media age Connor would be nobody.

 

[William Huggins]

You can't compare a sport that's been around for hundreds of years to a new sport.

Tyson is still talked about decades laters and is considered an all time great. Conor will be long forgotten.

Time will tell but considering the ongoing media coverage of Conor and the fact things have changed so dramatically regarding the rise in social media it's going to be anyone's guess as to the possible outcome but I will say it's a lot easier to be persistently in the lime light with the way things are today.......

 

[BetoG695]

Now before everyone gets pissy, im not saying hes on the level of Tyson. Mike was the youngest HW champ ever and actually stayed on top for a while..

But theres ALOT of things they have in common.

Love or hate Conor, hes got some really impressive power which is half the reason he got so popular. Tons of first round knockouts and very visually appealing style.


Both have rape charges against them

Both fighters once defeated suffered multiple defeats in the relative near future after the aura was gone and their weaknessses showed.

Both fighters had glaring weaknesses.

Both lack cardio

Both turned into shitheads when they got rich.

Both beat aging fighters to win gold.

Both are total assholes to their opponents.

But i bet you Conor wont be a big star for 30 years and retire with money

if anything it shows how little you know about either fighter.....after his loss to buster douglas tyson didnt loose for anther like 6yrs....then he lost to evander and didnt loose again for 3yrs.....Tyson didnt have a glaring weakness TBH spending 4yrs of his prime in jail and loosing his coach is what made him go down....Berbik was only in his early 30s when he lost to tyson and went on to fight like 25 times and even was a champion in 2000 when he retired.....Tyson wasnt an asshole until he got with Don King if you watch anything of tyson before that he was very shy and quiet

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

Conor McGregor is mma's Harvey Weinstein

Brutal but honest and truthful assessment.

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

Also, Tyson came from pretty much nothing and was headed down the wrong path till he and Cus found each other.

conor is an entitled, spoiled. lying rich kid who - although good at fighting - is still just that a spoiled, entitled, rich (now) man who has the money to be an even bigger POS than he was prior.

There is nothing noble or cool about quitting your well paying job to go on welfare and sponge off of your gal then pretend like you had some rags to riches fairytale success.

 

[Natural Order]

While from a career perspective I agree that Iron Mike is outside of the Top 10 GOAT HWs, I will say that in his prime (21 years old) he'd be at the very least 50/50 odds against the best in boxing history. There aren't many fighters who could have dealt with the ferocity, tempo and power that Mike possessed.

The kid was a juggernaut. Boxing has never seen anybody like Mike Tyson.

 

[TheJohnnyWalkerEra]

Mike wouldn't be able to take one of those lefts

I'd give Tyson a puncher's chance though, he hits almost as hard

 

[mudrubble]

Still one is a legend who destroyed bigger men and the other is a flash in the pan who picked on midgets.

Tyson was 45-1 before he started losing regularly. It's an insult to even mention them in the same breath, even if we're comparing the negative shit.

May as well compare Conor to Thiago Silva. Lots of fighters have downfalls and succumb to criminal lifestyles. They're fighters.

This. So much.

And as one poster said Tyson had several title defenses. Conor has been running division to division trying to pick a fight here and there, mostly on twitter. Since winning a belt he's hardly been an active fighter, and he's lost all his fights since touching gold.

 

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Contard

 

[shanegotu11]

Tyson vs mcgregor. Book it. Boxing only.

 

[mudrubble]

How about comparing him to War Machine?

The girl that Conor is alleged to have raped was brutalized DURING the rape. War Machine just brutalized on a regular. Conor hasn't sunk to that level yet. When we see Dee showing up in public with black eyes we know that his fighting career has ended him at the bottom of a bottle of proper 12.

But if he raped her sister in law that's also at the bottom of a bottle of proper 12, tbh. Who assaults their family in that way? I just hope it's totally untrue but I can't lie - it's hard for me to believe someone in the family would come out after being obviously raped (from police testimony to rape evidence and blood and battery on the victim) and LIE and claim it was Conor.

I mean, the girl WAS raped. That is not in dispute. And the "Irish Sports Star" admits to having sex with her on that night. Why would she name her family member, who admits to having sex with her, as her rapist if she knew it was someone else? It's not proof but it's damning.

Someone brutalized and bloodied the woman that "the Irish Sports Star" claims to have had consensual sex with. Weird circumstances.

You'd think that if one of Conor's entourage did that to Conor's family he'd be aired out publicly and beat to within an inch of his life privately. So why is this on Conor's doorstep if he's innocent?

Very strange.

EDIT: If we're going conspiracy theory we could surmise that one of the gangsters Conor runs with came in after Conor had consensual sex with his sister in law, and brutally raped her and told Conor to not say a word and keep his mouth shut. His sister in law might have blamed him for letting the guy at her, especially if he's a name she can't mention for fear of her life.

That's the only legit explanation I can think up where Conor isn't the rapist. And then he's the guy partying with rapists who he lets rape his family. Either way I can't see a way he's innocent.

 

[K-Bag]

Both would fuck someone till they loved them....guys included.

 

[ColombianFist]

Mike was always a great champ and like hell he lacked cardio; Cus' training was extreme. He became the person we know since he joined Don King and his cronies who transformed him after he left Kevin rooney and Bill Clayton who took care of him after Cus died.


Mcg on the other hand is a egocentric jabroni who entered mma to get money and be an obnoxious idiot. Even after khabib beat him he still tries to be relevant on Twitter and he's a felon caught on tape. Don't compare Tyson with Mcg TS, both guys are completely different; you can see it if your read Mike's books.

 

[SolarSeiko]

And his power is vastly overrated - unless you're 145 and running in chin first (or eddie who gets dropped by pretty much everyone) that power is not all that - Floyd ate that shit like chopped liver. If the power was all that then he'd have at least offered a threat to floyd but even with an obvious size advantage he offered nothing to floyd in terms of danger not even that so called punching power.

I'm glad to see there are sherdoggers with a fuckin brain.
What kind of retard compares Iron Mike with Conor? Like really, Iron Mike was a god damn monster fighting bigger opponents. Conor was a blown up lightweight fighting midgets. The guy avoided all wrestlers except the 2 week notice Mendes fight. Suddenly now that Frankie is at the end of his career, Conor is interested in fighting him? lol.