McGregor's Cardio

Lets be honest, this is what happens when instead of training cardio you're in the park playing touch butt with a pal.
 
his techinque was brilliant in the first but he was much slower in round two and got because of it some hard hits. he really needs better cardio thats for sure.
his technique looked off to me. He wasn't used to someone having a reach advantage on him and you coudl tell. He hit Nate with some good shots sure, but he was coming up way short on a lot of strikes as well, completely missing.

Nate stuck with his game plan, landed clean shots and kept at it until he hurt conor. Conors lack of ground game really showed as well. He was rocked but looked completely clueless
 
Yup, he gassed because he was so cocky thinking one punch will KO Nate. Well no, NAte (like Nick) has a great chin.

Conor was throwing everything with full power like a moron and paid for it. Glad his cocky attitude got to him finally.
 
Conor looked like an amateur in round 2.

His cardio was shit.
Walked straight forward after Nate with his hands down.
Got blaseted and wobbled more than once.
Had zero ground game.

Conor was fighting like he was in a local show tonight.
 
Must be what happens when you spend your time getting molested by a pool noodle
 
Seriously? Condition? He was the one that was training for a title fight the entire time. Nate had less than 2 weeks notice. Conor didnt gas. He just got his dick kicked in the dirt by a better boxer and grappler.
 
Conor looked like an amateur in round 2.

His cardio was shit.
Walked straight forward after Nate with his hands down.
Got blaseted and wobbled more than once.
Had zero ground game.

Conor was fighting like he was in a local show tonight.
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McGregor said it himself. He was chasing the round 1 KO and gassed, while Nate reserved his energy for round 2.
 
It was the shots to the body that Nate gave him.
 
his technique looked off to me. He wasn't used to someone having a reach advantage on him and you coudl tell. He hit Nate with some good shots sure, but he was coming up way short on a lot of strikes as well, completely missing.

Nate stuck with his game plan, landed clean shots and kept at it until he hurt conor. Conors lack of ground game really showed as well. He was rocked but looked completely clueless

Yeah, he was reaching on a ton his punches, and was coming up short, and sapping his cardio at the same time. It's the power strikes that don't land that take the most energy from you.

He wasn't calm and collected like a brilliant tactician would be. He'd get his ass uttetly whooped by Floyd in a boxing ring, but we all knew that.
 
Gas tank on E.

Second round he was almost moving slower then nate.
 
Ive just rewatched the fight and Diaz's best shots in round 2 started to land when Conor slowed down a lot, he saw that Conor was gassing and went in. Conor blew it, ridiculous gameplan to go full blast from the get go, thought he could finish Diaz quick and get out of there lol Diaz took the punches like a champ, and too think Josh Thomson finished Diaz with strikes lol
 
He was throwing hard because he found out early Nate's reach was gonna be an issue, so more than fulfilling his prediction he probably thought it'd be wise to end it soon.
 
conor knew what he was doing the entire time. Regardless of his inevitable demise, he made millions in just a few fights by getting impressionable losers to follow him around like the pied piper. You hear those same "fans" boo the shit out of him after he lost? These are like the worst people on the planet.
 
getting punched in the face a lot will fuck with your cardio. Missing with heavy shots also contributes to an empty tank faster than landing. His cardio is fine. He just got molested by someone who didn't drop to his shots.
 
Lets be honest, this is what happens when instead of training cardio you're in the park playing touch butt with a pal.

..also true :)
 
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McGregor said it himself. He was chasing the round 1 KO and gassed, while Nate reserved his energy for round 2.
Which is some amateur shit. "Chasing the first round ko"? Like most fighters say, if it comes then it comes. That's no excuse.

A fighter that gases by the end of the first round is an amateur.

He's gotten by by fighting the smallest guys possible and now that he's fought someone his own size, he doesn't look nearly as good. No champion ever should gas in the first round.
 
I think it was pretty clear Conor had won the first round,
I don't know about you all but I feel like Conor's cardio is what really lost him the fight. At the beginning or early in the second round he did seem a lot slower and tired. Maybe he's not use to carrying that weight all around?

Thoughts?

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he was getting hit back .

lets not forget he had a full camp and nate had 10 days.

It's called heart - Nate took everything he had and kept coming forward. conor folded as soon as he was hit hard once, turned panic wrestler, gave up his back and tapped really quick.

But I'm sure the excuses will come in the next day or so.
 
I think he suffered from punched-in-the-face-syndrome. No excuse to come off a full fight camp with no weight cut. his cardio should have been at its absolute peak.
Yes I agree. I don't think it was cardio. Being punched takes a lot out of you. Nate landed clean shots that weakened Conor enough for Nate to take him down and submit him. Clean victory for Mr. Diaz. Congrats to him.
 
Totally agree, I was about to make a similar thread.

In round 2 I could see Conor jump into his punches to try and give them more pop cause he had NOTHING left. His hands were literally just falling onto Nate. He gassed hard and I was thinking oh shit he's in big trouble now and sure enough Nate turned it around and rocked him shortly after and we know the rest.

Big props to Nate, what a tough mother. Still a huge fan of Conor and it's going to be interesting to see how he comes back. He could still be a force at 155.
 
I was rooting for Nate big time but yeah i was surprised how the fight went, McGregor looked godlike in that first round, and for the first couple of minutes of the 2nd round.
Then all of a sudden he got tagged with a 1-2 and looked to be completely gassed out of nowhere, really strange ending, sick fight though
 
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