Did Poirier's power increase and McGregor's decrease going up?

[Zanderlini]

I think whatever nutrition plan during cutting and pulling water has been working good for Dustin. He used to look a little flat, now he looks like a welterweight at 155.

 

[Franklin U.]

They both increased at their proper weight classes. Poirier just closed the gap as a mmartist and Conor has been infatuated in making physical gains in his physique. He even had Dana convinced of a probable repeat performance....maybe a little tougher and longer but was expecting Gregor to get stoppage. That betting line was one of the biggest overlays I've seen in quite sometime and I'm not playing monday morning QB as all my posts PRE FIGHT said as much. Look at who Poirier was walking through compared to the activity of McGregor. The mulligan in the shopworn cerrone that they fed to Conor was the worst thing they couldve done. To make matters worse, they didnt have to cut weight.

Itll be interesting if this 3rd fight does happen. I see the people in Vegas opening this bout in the pk'em range .

I have feeling ( just a gut feeling ) that this fight ain't happening.

Right now RIGHT NOW is the time for DDP V CHARL-O. Khabib retired , they need to get behind this fucking awesome fight they have right in front of them.

The 2 lightweights that have put in the work and have evolved as much as anyone in past 2.5-3 years .

This just my opinion but I still need to see 1 more fight from Chsndler .I only say this because Hooker entered as a top 5 lightweight but I never thought he was top 5 .Let's do Mike Justin and on the same card .At the summers start ( or springs end). ENORMOUS PPV- a solid 135 top 5 -10 swing fight or give the deserving Dariush a top 5 opponent.

UFC 155 rankings so subjective which a good thing cause it's a division they own the quality/ quantity.

 

[Sickbro69420]

And if so why? Just seems to me that Poirier is more powerful at 155 and McGregor really hasn't been. What would be the cause for the discrepancy? Again, it's just my "impression", haven't analyzed this in any scientific rationale.

I already made a thread asking this question and these fucking idiots didn't get it. But I was thinking the same thing. Some guys don't carry power in thier natural weight class. PORIER gained power and stamina coming up. Phil daru helped that boy come up in weight proper 12. Connor on the other hand sticks to a hypertrophy program year round, barely cuts weight and bicycles and plays touch butt in the park, and the power simply did come with him. They need pay these fighters to take falls if they want to keep the cash cow relevant. So maybe they will with the trilogy?

 

[Poirierfan]

Conor has almost all TKO's, was never a one punch flatline ko artist. Therefore it wasn't never gonna translate well against bigger guys at LW

 

[Johnnny]

Conor has never been a true power puncher, even at featherweight. His best skill is his punching accuracy.

He did the death cut to 145 so that he would have an enormous reach advantage against actual featherweights. That made it possible for him to hang just out of their range, where they couldn't reach him but he could still reach them. The result was he used his elite accuracy to tag featherweights repeatedly, but their counters would fall short because of the reach disparity (coupled with his understanding of distance management).

At lightweight, that game worked against Eddie Alvarez. But it won't work against the bigger, longer guys.