Looking back, Conor's path to a string of victories and success was meticulously crafted like..

[MMAart]

Looking back, Conor's path to a string of victories and success was the product of a meticulous, subtle process of masterful matchmaking craftsmanship, like the brewing of the finest whiskey where a series of well-planned fermentation and distillation of hand-selected ingredients, infusion of flavors, and fancy bottling that took a standard product and successfully marketed it as premium quality.

 

[SpecialDelivery]

You're an idiot.

By posting ridiculous elementary shit like this, you're literally shitting on great fighters such as Aldo, Alvarez, and Mendes.


MMA fans need to be wiped out by an asteroid and need to start over.

 

[Deleted member 545701]

Yes because taking Chad Mendes on 11 days notice is real hand selected

If anybody wants to give this man any credit, JUST REMEMBER - he TRULY believed that the UFC were trying to make Conor look brave by having him "accept" a fight with Khabib, just for them to pull him out of the fight so that we would get Khabib vs Tony at UFC 229. He's full of shit, just like his dog shit threads.

 

[HoFF]

Yes because taking Chad Mendes on 11 days notice is real hand selected

If anybody wants to give this man any credit, JUST REMEMBER - he TRULY believed that the UFC were trying to make Conor look brave by having him "accept" a fight with Khabib, just for them to pull him out of the fight so that we would get Khabib vs Tony at UFC 229. He's full of shit, just like his dog shit threads.

I will be your manager buddy.

 

[cambo78]

 

[100action]

Such meticulousness was the matchup with khabib

 

[Deleted member 545701]

I will be your manager buddy.

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LOL

 

[flowoftruth]

ts im gonna go through you just like laxatives

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Bumping Siver into the top-10 after the fight was announced was a nice touch

 

[Deleted member 545701]

Bumping Siver into the top-10 after the fight was announced was a nice touch

They do that for a lot of fights

They bumped Conor up to #1 LW before 229, and they bumped Silva ahead of Bisping in the rankings just so Silva could walk out second

 

[Nightwish]

A path full of midgets.

 

[Sapp]

Hand selected up to and including the Siver fight maybe. The Mendes fight was on short notice against a tough matchup and Aldo was obviously a fixed barrier. Conor accepted the fight against RDA so I don't think it's fair to say he cherrypicked Eddie either.

 

[podsox]

Max and poirier left out...

 

[Trillz]

Bumping Siver into the top-10 after the fight was announced was a nice touch

they done that alot during rousey and demetrious johnson reign

 

[ArtemV]

Conor is legit, and his grappling/wrestling defense is not weak at all. Khabib is just much better at both of these aspects than most.

Mendes, Aldo and Alvarez are 3 really tough names to obtain on your record.

 

[clutchCAT420]

He's a joke of a mma fighter

 

[linch]

Looking back, Conor's path to a string of victories and success was the product of a meticulous, subtle process of masterful matchmaking craftsmanship, like the brewing of the finest whiskey where a series of well-planned fermentation and distillation of hand-selected ingredients, infusion of flavors, and fancy bottling that took a standard product and successfully marketed it as premium quality.

No. Also was pound for pound king when conor fought him

 

[acannxr]

Conor's path to a string of victories and success was the product of a meticulous, subtle process of masterful matchmaking craftsmanship

Since all you've done is posted pictures, I'll provide some more context to your thread by quoting myself:

They weren't necessarily "easy" opponents, but anyone who believes that the UFC didn't protect McGregor through the matchmaking with stylistically safe matchups is in denial.

April and August, 2013
#31 Marcus Brimage - Striker
#70 Max Holloway - Striker (short notice)

July and September, 2014
#32 Diego Brandão - Striker/BJJ
#10 Dustin Poirier - Striker/BJJ

*At this point McGregor was expected to face the winner of Aldo/Mendes, but he chose to remain active instead.

January and July, 2015
#19 Dennis Siver - Striker
#4 Chad Mendes - Wrestler (injured, short notice)

You can examine it a step further and look at how the wrestlers were purposely tied up:

November 2014
#2 Frankie Edgar (wrestler) was booked against #4 Cub Swanson
#6 Ricardo Lamas (wrestler) was booked against #8 Dennis Bermudez (wrestler).

April 2015
#5 Ricardo Lamas (wrestler) was booked against #4 Chad Mendes (wrestler).

May 2015
#2 Frankie Edgar (wrestler) was booked against #4-BW Urijah Faber (wrestler).

If Aldo hadn't gotten injured, it was the UFC's plan to grant McGregor a title shot after having fought only one top ten opponent (who wasn't a wrestler); and during his feud with Diaz the UFC continued tying up his bad matchups at Featherweight until they eventually killed themselves off, which gave McGregor an out to not fighting them.

Additionally, they gifted him a Lightweight title shot in spite of them having been cold on the idea when other champions asked for the same opportunity (Aldo, RDA, etc.). He then goes 1-1 against #7 Nate Diaz (non-wrestler) and receives yet another shot at the Lightweight title, in spite of an undefeated contender being promised it (Nurmagomedov).

The thing is, I don't think McGregor would have turned down those fights at Featherweight, and in all likelihood he would've won, but to pretend like the UFC wasn't protecting McGregor is absurd.

 

[Tronald Dump]

Somewhat agree with TS. Aldo and Alvarez couldn't have been selected as they were required matchups in order for him to obtain those titles, and are not in any way 'easy fights' on paper. However, Brimage, and Siver were obvious showcase matchups. In addition, Holloway and Brandao were winnable matchups considering Brandao had few meaningful wins at the time and was coming off of a loss, and Holloway was nowhere near the force he is today. But I wouldn't say he was treated any differently than any other prospect the UFC would want to push. Obviously they would give him some favourable matchups, the only reason they let Diaz step in last minute was the heat they had between them, as well as the fact it looked like a sure McGregor victory. As I said, only partially agree. In order to fully agree they would have had to prevent Mendes (a terrible stylistic matchup on paper) from stepping in at the last minute.

 

[fedoriswar37]

He definatly had some favourable circumstances but then again he took what was given to him by finishing fights and beating the top 2 guys . He fast tracked himself and got a little push from the UFC. UFC once tried to push Velasquez on the fox card and be got ktfo in a minute.