In hindsight who is Conor's most impressive win after Aldo?

[ncboy]

Poirier, though it didn't seem like it at the time, the guy has gone on a tear. Albeit at a higher weight division, so who knows if the cut was too much for him.

Chad would have beaten him with a full camp and Max is still growing.

 

[Lavitz]

Siver with out a doubt.

Siver was blocking Conor for the title.

Siver was tagging Conor at will and took him down a couple of times.

It was a big win.

Spoiler

 

[TheNewEmperor]

Exactly!

Take away the FLUKE ko of aldo and who has he beaten? Mendes had 2 weeks to train, so it counts but isnt impressive. That means a guy who beat silver or holloway is considered the goat? Cmon man, conor is a new version of dan hardy. Hes good, not great

 

[Slapchoppin]

Why who is he Holloway now?

he beat Min Holloway

now he's Max Holloway

 

[bubby]

Exactly!

Take away the FLUKE ko of aldo and who has he beaten? Mendes had 2 weeks to train, so it counts but isnt impressive. That means a guy who beat silver or holloway is considered the goat? Cmon man, conor is a new version of dan hardy. Hes good, not great

Dan hardy wasn't even good, and Conor IS great. They aren't comparable.

 

[FleximusPrime]

he beat Min Holloway

now he's Max Holloway

Oh right, I thought he had a sex change or something and became Maxine Holloway.

 

[PriestPaiMei]

Dustin Poirier. That was a good legit win. Poirier is very talented and you can see his win streak.
Mendes was very short notice and he was beating Conor for most of it.
Holloway was 20 years old, he was so young and very raw and Conor never hurt him, just a decision.

This

 

[Phronimos]

I was most impressed with his victory over Max, to be honest.

 

[Fighting Gaming]

Conor came from nowhere the sport was not even sport in Ireland till a few years ago. There was probably 1 to 2 MMA gyms thats it, with about 10 to 20 guys training. For Conor to come in and KO a 9 year reigning champ was an impressive feat considering it all.

 

[Thaijitsu612]

It's hard to say really. Max was pretty green but Connor was able to display his skills still. Poirer has a win streak going but was never the best striker. He would bring it and had some power but he's looked like a fool at times against better strikers, running straight past fighters who would use a simple side step as he charged straight forward.

I'd still go with either max or poirer though given the Mendes circumstances

 

[Fincher7]

Poirier. Nobody's ever shut Dustin down like that.

 

[MMAAAM]

Max Holloway, Dustin Poirier, or Chad Mendes?

Holloway is on a 9 fight winning streak. Poirier is on a 4 winning streak. Mendes was juicing.

All three are impressive.

 

[Sosua]

It's hard t say because they were all great wins.

Destroyed a great, exciting fighter in Poirer, ruined Mendes chin and turned him to special lotions and made Holloway look like a boy.

I'm sure some of you will have a unique spin on things.

 

[Doug22]

Easily Mendes, it isn't even debatable. Short camp or not, nobody had taken Mendes out with punches like that. Chad had been KOing everyone other than Aldo, who he just had a close fight with.

 

[Bogeyman]

The "green Holloway" talk is just stupid. He was 21, McGregor was 24. That was Holloway's 6th UFC fight and McGregor's 2nd.