McGregor is not afraid of getting choke out

YourBoss said:
It shows more toughness? being choed out doesnt hurt. It doesnt take any toughness. Not tapping to an armlock would be toughness. Not tapping to a choke makes you end up unconcious, looking like a loser.
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No it looks like a warrior who chose not to give up. Tapping to a choke makes you look weak. Let's choke you out and see how you respond. Bet you'll be tapping for your life.

Being choked out people feel like they are dying. That's why they tap, it's your body's natural reaction to losing oxygen and not being able to breathe is to think about life and death. It's more mental than anything else. So people that don't tap show their mental toughness in the face of a feeling related to death.

This is why everyone says they won't tap. Every fighter would rather not tap and go out, they just end up tapping anyway because it's easier said than done.
 
I see a lot of people here who never trained or competed on any form of submission grappling in their lives.

Iif you are experienced enough most of the times you know how deep is a choke and that you have no chance of improving position to get out, in the few seconds that takes for you to be out cold, there is no point in not taping then.

And sometimes you are choked out not because you are a warrior, but because you didn't realise how air deprived your brain was and you lose control of your limbs before having a chance to tap.
 
FIghtxIQ said:
No it looks like a warrior who chose not to give up. Tapping to a choke makes you look weak. Let's choke you out and see how you respond. Bet you'll be tapping for your life.

Being choked out people feel like they are dying. That's why they tap, it's your body's natural reaction to losing oxygen and not being able to breathe is to think about life and death. It's more mental than anything else. So people that don't tap show their mental toughness in the face of a feeling related to death.

This is why everyone says they won't tap. Every fighter would rather not tap and go out, they just end up tapping anyway because it's easier said than done.
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you obviously dont know what you are talking about. you dont lose consciousness because you cant breath lol. wtf that would take about 2-3 minutes. you lose counsciousness cause the bloodflow to your brain is stopped It takes only a couple of seconds, and doesnt hurt at all. afterwards you are actually feeling high. so there is nothing tough about not tapping out. if you know you are losing 100% you can decide wether you wanna tap or end up looking like a corpse. I would certainly chose the first.




here you see a trainings group that choke one another out for fun. guess they must be crazy psycho warriors.
 
How can he be afraid of it? Conor is an expert at getting choked out. His idols were Anthony Johnson and frank Trigg
 
Seems like a lot of people in here never grappled before lol. Getting choked out generally is not a pleasant experience. Yeah, if you're tryin go choke each other out for LOLZ then it's not too unpleasant but if you are rolling hard or in competitiion then it is not a good feeling at all. Some are saying people who get choked out are just being dumb or unaware. That's not completely true either. A lot of times shit is locked in yet you move around in an attempt to make ANYTHING work and thus you get put to sleep while trying to do shit.

Just sitting there waiting to get put to sleep is kind of weird, but if you're still attempting to strip the grips or attempting to move your body to relieve pressure and get put to sleep that definitely shows some "warrior spirit" or whatever because you really did fight for any chance possible to get out. At the same time, I don't see anything wrong with admitting defeat and tapping. There's sometimes where it's 100% obvious you are fucked and so it's not really worth even trying to get out.
 
Perry Willits said:
It was a neck crank, not a choke!!
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Doesn't really matter, either way the fight had reached the point where it was no longer winnable for Conor. He showed a lot of heart to survive round 2 and win round 3 but he needed to win rounds 4 and 5 but after that takedown in round 4 the best he could do was to try survive a few minutes of some GNP just to have a chance to try go the distance. He wouldn't have had anything in the tank to finish Khabib in round 5 so the high IQ decision was to call it a day, minimize the damage and prolong your career.
 
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YourBoss said:
you obviously dont know what you are talking about. you dont lose consciousness because you cant breath lol. wtf that would take about 2-3 minutes. you lose counsciousness cause the bloodflow to your brain is stopped It takes only a couple of seconds, and doesnt hurt at all. afterwards you are actually feeling high. so there is nothing tough about not tapping out. if you know you are losing 100% you can decide wether you wanna tap or end up looking like a corpse. I would certainly chose the first.




here you see a trainings group that choke one another out for fun. guess they must be crazy psycho warriors.
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I also said no oxygen, meaning your body's natural reaction to needing oxygen. Blood chokes prevents your brain from getting oxygen. Not all chokes are blood choke, and even if it is a blood choke usually they work on it first to get it tight enough so it's an air choke first. That is why people still tap before they go out. They are still aware and their body/brain isn't getting oxygen and they feel like they are going to die.

Warrior minded fighters don't think like you and that's why they don't tap. They don't care about what someone thinks on sherdog, they have their own fight mentality and warrior code. They would rather go out on their shield. Maybe that's why the people that post only on sherdog and don't fight will never understand it.

That video is fake. He didn't really go out. You can see it in his face and how his body responded it was a fake reaction. You can tell by his arm that's up, if he went out his arm would go limp and just drop. He put his arm down before he went out so he can fake it and he can look tough. His body didn't struggle at all, which isn't natural for the body to do during that situation because your bodies natural reactions kick in. That's 100% fake.

Ever hear fighters say they'll never tap? It's because no fighter wants to tap. Just very few actually don't tap and go out on their shields instead.
 
FIghtxIQ said:
No it looks like a warrior who chose not to give up. Tapping to a choke makes you look weak. Let's choke you out and see how you respond. Bet you'll be tapping for your life.

Being choked out people feel like they are dying. That's why they tap, it's your body's natural reaction to losing oxygen and not being able to breathe is to think about life and death. It's more mental than anything else. So people that don't tap show their mental toughness in the face of a feeling related to death.

This is why everyone says they won't tap. Every fighter would rather not tap and go out, they just end up tapping anyway because it's easier said than done.
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It’s not a natural reaction to tap out when you feel like you’re dying lol. That’s just a function of the martial art you’re participating in. It’s an admission that you’re caught and can’t escape; you’ve lost. Whether you tap or go to sleep, you still lost.

The only argument I could make to your point is that some guys could survive a choke and stay conscious if they didn’t tap, but that’s pretty rare
 
I think people look too much into it, a few times in the gym i almost went out, not because I was being a warrior, but because I didn't realise how quickly the choke would come on, and tried to get out, if you're in a fight the stakes are even bigger, and a lot of the time the choke doesn't hurt so you just keep fighting it, and you could suddenly go out. Many times I fought through chokes when rolling and managed to escape, and suddenly felt dizzy when I tried getting up, its not easy to tell how much time you have, probably a lot of guys that don't tap to chokes never realized they were going to pass out. Not tapping to armbars or keg locks is a different animal, I tap like a bitch to joint submissions, because it's very clear when you're done
 
There is no problem with tapping

But he basically quit vs Nate the first fight

A KO loss is what so many fans are hungry for from Conor
 
Being choked out shouldnt be a big deal, you can always wake up and start bitching about "early stoppage" like Chiesa
 
Final Say said:
It’s not a natural reaction to tap out when you feel like you’re dying lol. That’s just a function of the martial art you’re participating in. It’s an admission that you’re caught and can’t escape; you’ve lost. Whether you tap or go to sleep, you still lost.

The only argument I could make to your point is that some guys could survive a choke and stay conscious if they didn’t tap, but that’s pretty rare
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It's a natural reaction for them to want to stop the feeling of losing air or oxygen to the brain. Yes when they get to that point it's similar to dying because your body is shutting down. It isn't comparable to getting KO because you don't feel anything, you just get clipped and you are out or your body isn't responding anymore. From chokes, especially ones that are on for some time before you go out it's a slow process and your body is slowly shutting down and you are slowly loosing oxygen to your lungs or blood to the brain. So yes they tap before they go out because of the feeling instead of trying to fight through that feeling. Also watch how frantic some people tap once a choke gets in deep, it's because all oxygen/blood is cut off and they can't breathe or get air so that's when you see the frantic tap. They want that feeling to stop as soon as possible. It's their body/mind natural reaction to that feeling. Even if they say they won't tap once they are in that situation their body/mind react differently.

Yes there are chokes that people escape from because they refused to tap. I have done it personally right when I was going out, so if I would've tapped instead of trying to fight it to the end I would've lost to that specific choke. There are other examples of this because other fighters also don't tap to chokes, so those fighters will be able to escape more chokes than someone who taps once they feel they are stuck and lost the fight.
 
McSpikes said:
Being choked out shouldnt be a big deal, you can always wake up and start bitching about "early stoppage" like Chiesa
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Some fighters fake going out to have them loosen the grip, but it will also get the ref to stop the fight. So that strategy isn't always best.
 
Good point. Another point about Aldo - he has looked amazing since McG beat him. Another testament to McGs skill and speed and strength
 
He had a little pain with a face crank and tapped in record time

Dustin didn't tap until he was put in a real choke, he withstood the crank
 
FIghtxIQ said:
No because you went out on your shield and not tapping to chokes shows more toughness than tapping to it. One you gave up while conscious. Other you fought until you lost consciousness. Big difference, and that is why even though fighters will say they won't tap, they still tap before going out. Going out by not tapping is not the same as going out by KO. Because with the choke you have the option to give up and you didn't take it.

Most fighters get praised for not tapping because it shows their warrior spirit. That is why they call McGregor McTapper, they use him tapping to question his heart. He also said he wasn't going to tap again before Khabib fight.
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Truth
 
The image of Conor tapping to Khabib will live longer in the minds of the mma community than the image of Aldo being knocked out.

So will the panic wrestling, and giving up his back, and tapping to Nate. He should have taken his beating like a man. Considering all the shit he talks about panic wrestling.
 
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