He got a paper belt beating Mendes and risked his shot against Aldo for the real one. Mendes wasn't in the best of shape but was higher ranked than Edgar and said he was in shape. Regardless of all of this, Mendes is a stylistic nightmare for McGregor. You claim he had 'HUGE incentive' to fight Mendes but that simply isn't true. Had he lost then, it would've hurt his image considerably moreso than now when it's more and less established. He risked his shot at a title that most fighters wouldn't take.
And Nate beat Cowboy. Do you not remember? More than that, Nate is a better personality and easier to sell. Note that it sold over 1.5M. Calling either Nate or Mendes easy fights is ridiculous. There was so little upside with being Nate. That GSP fight could've happened without that Nate.
So you want to play little naive guy? "He told them he was in shape".
No, he didn't tell them anything because he was out hunting. And you don't bring your mobile while hunting.
UFC knew Frankie was training. they called him at his gym and spoke with him.
It seems amazing to me conor fans can't understand logic.
Yes, OF COURSE there are risks involved.
But no-camp Mendes is OBVIOUSLY a much lesser risk than Frankie!
And you saw it paid out when Mendes was beating Conor and just run out of gas.
I do remember Nate beat Cowboy. That is the feeblest of any excuse you could give.
Should we forget about Conor and get Artemij Sitenkov then? I mean he beat Conor, didn't him?
How about Duffy? He beat Conor as well.
The part your excuse fall to pieces is when you realise Cowboy went on a 9-1 run.
Diaz was 2-3 on his last 5.
Even now, after beating Conor, Diaz is not even ranked within the top 10 at Sherdog. Cowboy? he's solid at #2!
So no, your excuse don't hold any water.
The very fact the fight was at 170 shows Diaz was not in shape.
Even the asinine angle that Diaz was easier to sell, it was not.
Cowboy already had back & forth with Conor during press conferences. Diaz had None. Because he was not ranked high enough to be on the press conference with Conor.
And they would not have time enough to make a lot of press conferences. As they did not.
But then again, you are willingly gullible, making all these excuses that when analysed, they show weak and full of holes..
Before the fight, Conor already was saying he would not fight RDA next, he was looking to fight at 170 next.
Lawler or GSP would be the biggest fight, just waiting for him to run through Diaz to announce them as the main event at UFC 200.
Ridiculous is you trying to claim there was no upside in fighting Diaz...
The very fact he was paid millions is a good excuse for Conor to take this fight.
The setup for him fighting GSP at UFC 200? heh. would be the biggest event ever held, with the biggest Hype ever!
Conor would lose, but he would make money to last for generations!
You have to be a special kind of blind not to see this
