How does one answer questions after a loss without making 'excuses'?

effervesciata

Purple Belt
@purple
Joined
Jun 2, 2015
Messages
1,895
Reaction score
78
People are claiming McGregor made excuses. I thought he made no excuses whatsoever, but WHEN ASKED tried to give a snap analysis of why he lost. He gave full credit to Nate - said he fought a better fight. So if you think he made excuses, how should he have answered the questions thrown at him? What should he have said? I really think people are mixing up making excuses and explaining.
 
why you are even posting this, why do you even care ?

when asked he blamed his gasstank. he had 3 months to prepare and lost to a guy who had only 2 weeks to prepare. in the 2nd round he got hit the face , crippled - went into panick wrestling mode and got subbed.

Nate diaz just owned him in that fight. he was making some lame passive agressive excuse about his gastank. mcgreggor also set the bar high with 1st round KO promises , trash talk etc. But the true story is that he completely crippled in the fight and give his back to nate for a easy way out.

if you get 1 million $ and you have 3 months to prepare you should deliver. if you don't you just have a poor performance , but instead of admitting it he blamed his gas tank.
 
Last edited:
He did loads better than Ronda who gave no credit to Holly, straight disappeared, and later was in denial.

But Conor was still offering up some back-handed compliments. Bc you know, it is what it is. He took a chance, and it didn't work out. He was simply fighting the heavier man.
 
Nate "managed his energy" better. Haha. GTFO with that new age secret bullshit. He whipped your ass. Broke you mentally and physically and exposed your bullshit
 
I thought he did better in his post fight interviews than any of the other madness he has been involved in with the media ever since signing to fight Aldo way back when. I told it like it was and he kinda blamed size but also accepted that he is the one who took the fight at a heavier weight. He really reminded me of GSP with his post fight attitude blaming himself instead of everybody and everything around him. On Sherdog his stock has crashed but to me his stock went through the roof. If we can keep that Conor in the media and at 145 then you got something right there.
 
Show me a fighter who doesn't think they could have won after a loss and I'll show you a gatekeeper.
 
I didn't think he gave any excuses. He was being honest. Gave props said Nate beat him and gave his thoughts on why he thinks he gassed so quickly. He exerted himself more than he should. Try'd to land one big shot instead of multiple and gassed quicker than he would have if he was a little more reserved. He is just talking the way Conor talks ... he uses the word energy instead of saying he used up his gas tank. I see none of this as excuses.

Even if he was more reserved on that night he still gasses .. just a round later.
 
He said something like "I lost to the heavier man" in the presser. I respect Conor but that sounds like an excuse.
 
He said something like "I lost to the heavier man" in the presser. I respect Conor but that sounds like an excuse.

The day before he was all


McGregor responded: 'I'm just giggling at his soft body. How can a fat guy be so skinny at the same time, it amuses me.

'I'm looking forward to getting in there and putting martial arts back in back into the game. Weight should never be an issue, champions should be able to go up and down and fight the challenger that comes before then.
 
People are claiming McGregor made excuses. I thought he made no excuses whatsoever, but WHEN ASKED tried to give a snap analysis of why he lost. He gave full credit to Nate - said he fought a better fight. So if you think he made excuses, how should he have answered the questions thrown at him? What should he have said? I really think people are mixing up making excuses and explaining.


You really want to know? Here's how you do it, in 1 easy step:

  1. Don't mention things about how you managed your "energy" poorly, and the other person didn't. Had nothing to do with energy and more to do with getting a muthafuckin ass whoopin.
 
People are claiming McGregor made excuses. I thought he made no excuses whatsoever, but WHEN ASKED tried to give a snap analysis of why he lost. He gave full credit to Nate - said he fought a better fight. So if you think he made excuses, how should he have answered the questions thrown at him? What should he have said? I really think people are mixing up making excuses and explaining.

It's Sherdog, people expect him to say " Nate was the better man" If he answered every post-fight question with "Nate was the better man" then no one would accuse him of making excuses. That's how Sherdog works

Some people think you can't critique your own performance in any way shape or form. You just have to say " The other person was better" over and over no matter what you're asked by the reporter.
 
There is no right or wrong answers that don't sound like excuses for those who dislike the loser.
 
I think Conor handled the questions well. He gave Nate his props and seemed humbled by the loss.

I wish that the Sherdog Conor McNuthuggers took the loss as well as him and would quit with all the crying, rage quiting, and excuses though!
 
No one can say for sure if how much of it contributed to him simply fighting a Diaz or fighting a "bigger" guy though. But fans seem to want to run with Diaz having a size advantage NOW after Conor convinced most fans it doesn't matter. But they both are not really built for the 170 division and both walk around at about the same weight. I don't have much of a problem with anything Conor said after the fight, it's more so with the fans dragging out size now being a factor, even though Conor may very well become a 155er along with Nate any moment now.
 
I have no excuses.. He was the better man tonight, I will learn from this and come back stronger.
 
People are claiming McGregor made excuses. I thought he made no excuses whatsoever, but WHEN ASKED tried to give a snap analysis of why he lost. He gave full credit to Nate - said he fought a better fight. So if you think he made excuses, how should he have answered the questions thrown at him? What should he have said? I really think people are mixing up making excuses and explaining.
He blamed weight when in reality neither of them cut weight. He said end of the day it was a result of fighting a heavier man. That's an excuse. How do you answer questions without making one? Most of what he said was fine apart from that. But maybe instead say this...

I hit him with everything I had and the son of a bitch just kept taking it, firing back and laughing it off in my face. There were times I would think I hurt him and he just ramped up the pace. I we in over my head and that was in the striking game. Once it hit the ground, I felt like the honorable thing to do would be to just how out and save some face. I'll be back, but first I am going to take some time and head to Team Alpha Male/Nova Unaio/Jackson Winklejohn/ American Top Team to work on my wrestling and BJJ with a legit black belt and legit wrestlers... Somewhere that I'm nobody, and where every day I am with trained killers who don't give a fuck how much my net worth is, they want to put a hurting on my ass.

And he needs to be saying this shit like last night. I would instantly become a bit more of a supporter. He would be on his way to being truly great. He's got some skills and some talent, but nobody wants to see or hear about it because he's an asshole. We would rather see him get his ass beat.
 
nate did manage his energy better, not sure about being the bigger man, idk by how much though. nate said himself his plan was to start off slow and go from there, meanwhile mcg was throwing big punches which does take energy away from you, grappling with a bigger guy will too, i was highly suspect about all the triathlon talk and being ready for a fight anytime stuff but he surely was in shape to fight, mcg was too, but i won't pretend conor eating shots didn't have an effect on him either, he was fed quite the knuckle sandwich. diaz v mcg at 155 could end even worse for conor though.
 
The answer this forum wants is the textbook: he was thr better man,i dunno what happened,he beat me fairly squarely,ill have to go back to the drawing board. I suck. To all my detractors...you were right! :: camera zooms in :: YOU WERE RIGHT!"


But to me thats all bullshit,you should just say whatever you really feel. Its when fans dont like what you say it becomes excuses,but fuck them,what do they know.
 
He blamed weight when in reality neither of them cut weight. He said end of the day it was a result of fighting a heavier man. That's an excuse. How do you answer questions without making one? Most of what he said was fine apart from that. But maybe instead say this...

I hit him with everything I had and the son of a bitch just kept taking it, firing back and laughing it off in my face. There were times I would think I hurt him and he just ramped up the pace. I we in over my head and that was in the striking game. Once it hit the ground, I felt like the honorable thing to do would be to just how out and save some face. I'll be back, but first I am going to take some time and head to Team Alpha Male/Nova Unaio/Jackson Winklejohn/ American Top Team to work on my wrestling and BJJ with a legit black belt and legit wrestlers... Somewhere that I'm nobody, and where every day I am with trained killers who don't give a fuck how much my net worth is, they want to put a hurting on my ass.

And he needs to be saying this shit like last night. I would instantly become a bit more of a supporter. He would be on his way to being truly great. He's got some skills and some talent, but nobody wants to see or hear about it because he's an asshole. We would rather see him get his ass beat.
He kept hitting him and he took it better than any of the FWs did. Why? Why did Nate Diaz take his punches when Jose Aldo couldn't? Because Nate Diaz is bigger. Was he wrong about that? He wasn't using is as an excuse. He was saying that his own gameplan was flawed because he didn't tailor it for a bigger opponent.
 
His problem is not what he said after the fight, but all the shit he talked before.

If he had been careful pre- fight nobody would have bothered about the post-fight excuses.

Now he's made his bed, time to lie in it.
 

Forum statistics

Threads
1,254,441
Messages
56,646,926
Members
175,332
Latest member
inox40000
Back
Top