To an extent, yeah. But he did bitch. He used weight as the excuse. He used "energy management" as the excuse. He used excuses that so-called backed him in the corner, making it seem like he was at the full disadvantage, but Nate was given all the advantages. The reality of it was he was preparing for a LW champ. That fell through. So he asked for a FW fight. Those fell through. So since he was already at LW, he hand-picked Diaz who wasn't training MMA, but yet again on vacation like Mendes. He could've asked for another LW that was prepared, but he didn't. He yet again chose the guy on vacation. The other thing is he complained about weight. They weighed virtually the same at weigh-ins. He was bragging about how liberal it was to not have to worry about making weight and he can eat and train freely before the fight. Then he spoke about energy. The out-of-shape, soft body, skinny-fat "gazelle" beat a guy that was training for "anyone'". Keep in mind, Conor's big on bragging about never training for one man but for "training for war" since everyone's always backing out.
Truth be told, he finally had to fight someone in his true weight class and he was shown that he's nothing special. He spent the whole fight head hunting and lost confidence once he realized his left hand isn't so magical when he's not turning into a skeleton to fight way smaller guys. But like I said in another thread, one thing I will give him credit for is that he showed up to the post-fight press conference. He made a few excuses, but held his tongue in spots I thought I'd fire off at. Ronda never showed nor gave interviews after for months. Dana didn't even stay last night.
