McGregor's resume... light on killers

[Doctor Grudge]

If y'all were around at the time, Sherdoggers were picking Mendes to grind the shit out of McGregor, who apparently couldn't grapple.

Sherdoggers pick every wrestler to beat a striker. Nothing special about that.

 

[I WILL CUT YOU]

He has a better resume than say - Poirier, Holloway (whilst injured mid fight and having to adapt to ground game), Mendes, Alvarez & ofc Aldo (though

Wild that you think Conor has a better resume than those guys. Aldo has more title defenses than Conor has top 10 wins, mate. Dustin destroyed him 2 out of 3. Holloway is an all time great. Mendes and Alvarez, sure, but barely better. Conor's resume is very light on good wins.

 

[PrideNverDies]

I wouldn't focus as much on his record vs strikers because really, even if he had been successful, that would have been like a decade ago. The guy has 1 win in the last 8 years and it was over one of the most CTE riddled fighters out there... and even that was 5 years ago.

Conor turns 37 next year and is already completely unrecognizable physically... he'd be lucky to finish a game of pickle ball let alone fight for a belt again.

Cowboy doesn't have CTE and how is he the most? That's pretty wild considering all the fighters with way worse CTE than Cowboy and worse losses. Like Nam Pham. You can say washed up or biggest choker or something but dumb post. I bet the guy in your av Keith Jardine has way worse CTE

 

[itz reggie]

Conor beat killers , Mendes, Aldo, Porrier , Alvarez, Holloway & Diaz, are all big wins. I doubt Conor can beat a ranked opponent at this point of his career, his mind isn't in fighting anymore.

 

[Subline]

His resume isn't great, his wins against Eddie and Aldo are great. But he beat a 21 y/o Max who was 3-2, has a losing record against Dustin, is 1-1 with Nate Diaz with the loss being more decisive, beat a washed Cerrone out of the weight class he was ranked in, and beat short notice Mendes who was winning until he gassed.

 

[blaseblase]

A different question I'd raise is what knockout artist did Aldo face during his title reign? I picked Conor to beat Aldo at the time because he'd only been fighting wrestleboxers and hadn't fought anyone like Conor. His defense had been slipping his last few fights.

 

[cburm]

Just thought of this bc I saw UFC post like, prompting the idea of Illia v Conor, n I thought 'lol, would not be good for Conor'.

Then I thought... hm, who has Conor beat that can really bang? Or is a knockout artist like him...

He has a better resume than say - Poirier, Holloway (whilst injured mid fight and having to adapt to ground game), Mendes, Alvarez & ofc Aldo (though this was the perfect storm of his mind games and getting Aldo to react like that... I wonder how repeatable that performance would be in a rematch).

Other than Aldo, he's never really beaten a big striker - Poirier and Holloway I know are good, great even sometimes strikers, but they're more both just kind of... grinders.

Who's he beat that can fkn BANG? Can't see anyone.

Mendes had rocks for hands he faught about all killers though

 

[Istryker]

Dana’s slippery hands were all
Over mcgregor’s career

Dehydrated Dustin

No camp mendes

Eddie with a six million cheque sweetener deal in his pocket

Cowboy the first fighter in the history of combat sports to go down to shoulder strikes

Max was still on his school holidays he was so young and green.

Aldo was a fluke

Only decent win was again Denis Siver who is legitimately so small that in my country he’d be considered handicapped

GENERATIONAL hate.

 

[contrail]

Damn, I did forget Poirier. I find the Diaz win more of a detractor to his resume to be fair but Poirier was a good one. I think if he stayed at 145 for a few more years and had that Edgar fight, Aldo rematch, cleaned up Lamas and maybe even met Volk or whatever it could have been huge. I know the cut was tough for him but he was always more of a tweener...big and sucked out for 145 but medium to small for 155, he was smaller than a lot of LW guys and his strengths seemed to lend themselves to 145 a lot better.

Once they did away with IVs Conor's days at 145 were numbered. Didn't help that most men begin to fill out some around that 26-28 mark. The Floyd fight robbed us (and Conor) of ever finding out how he could have really done at LW while still in his physical and (most importantly) mental "prime". Khabib would have smushed him eventually, but we could have had a few fun fights before then.

 

[KamalaForever]

McGregor is a once in a lifetime talent, but his ship has sailed.

 

[ThePimblettEra]

His resume isn't great, his wins against Eddie and Aldo are great. But he beat a 21 y/o Max who was 3-2, has a losing record against Dustin, is 1-1 with Nate Diaz with the loss being more decisive, beat a washed Cerrone out of the weight class he was ranked in, and beat short notice Mendes who was winning until he gassed.

How many "great" wins did Khabib have, then?
How many "great" wins does Islam have?

You've said Conor has 2 great wins here, but you won't give him the Poirier win?

I take it you won't count Poirier as a great win for Khabib or Islam also, right?

That's a funny one, isn't it?
Considering Poirier is objectively the highest level of opponent Khabib faced, Islam has faced better competition though in Volk (even though he was smaller), to his credit.

My overall point here is: if we aren't counting Poirier as a great win, 2 of the apparent "GOAT"s don't have many great wins either (as we can disregard Poirier level or lower according to your logic).

 

[Subline]

You've said Conor has 2 great wins here, but you won't give him the Poirier win?

I take it you won't count Poirier as a great win for Khabib or Islam also, right?

Both Khabib and Islam fought a much better version of Dustin

 

[ThePimblettEra]

Both Khabib and Islam fought a much better version of Dustin

I thought that would be the case

 

[Chaotic Progressor]

Wild that you think Conor has a better resume than those guys. Aldo has more title defenses than Conor has top 10 wins, mate. Dustin destroyed him 2 out of 3. Holloway is an all time great. Mendes and Alvarez, sure, but barely better. Conor's resume is very light on good wins.

Nah you misread homie. I didn't say he had a better resume than them.

I said 'he has a better resume than they say' < than they say, than people say. Then hyphen and showing his resume is better than people pretend, with those guys on it.

 

[Steve Fox]

Conor is retired. He is now a BKFC promoter.