Robbie Lawler would not "Absolutely Destroy" McGregor

[gspfedkobe24]

Conor would KO Fabricio as well......

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Which one of them is even near the fighter Conor is?
Obviously much easier to knockout bunch of bums. Manhoef knockout was pure luck and you know it.

I don't want to get into an argument, but you think Robbie KOing Manhoef was pure luck, but Conor KOing Aldo was divine intervention?

Both guys landed hellacious punches that destroyed their opponents.

Trigg got practically murdered and blinded by him... Manhoef was never the same after that KO... Linland never took another big fight... But Tiki shouldn't be on your list - it was stopped for the cut, remember...?

you're right, how could I forget. One of the great moments in MMA history

 

[Henghist]

I'm in awe of Conors skillset but I can not imagine those skills compensating for the difference in size.

 

[TheGrouch]

You realize that your whining and bitching is just as bad as all these "Conor haters" you are referring to as a general group of people. Just let the fights happen...bitching and complaining about what people think before the fight even happens is fuckin stupid.

 

[Amst3rdam]

i like conor but these nutthuggers are just to much at times

 

[TimeisNOW]

lawler would wreck conor on top of ruining whatever career he has left like he did to hendricks.

Conor is WAY too easy to hit. He might have worse head movement than nick diaz and that is saying something.

 

[ccg]

Conor has enough reach, speed, and technique to make it competitive while they're standing. If it goes to the ground (and it will), he's a dead man. He just doesn't have the wrestling chops to hang with someone 20% heavier. It doesn't work; there is no way around it. Robbie wins this making Irish mash potatoes via GNP.

 

[ANAFILMS]

I don't want to get into an argument, but you think Robbie KOing Manhoef was pure luck, but Conor KOing Aldo was divine intervention?

Both guys landed hellacious punches that destroyed their opponents.



you're right, how could I forget. One of the great moments in MMA history

Robbie was limping, eating loads of leg kicks / punches, he was trapped in the corner and then he unleashed his last hope: overhand right and it landed
Conor said that he would knock out Aldo with the first punch and he did that (well technically not the first punch thrown but he predicted that it would happen just the way it happened) so i don't think that it was luck that Conor landed the shot, he has knocked out guys in similar way (for example his last LW fight) and he has studied movement a lot so i don't know

 

[JC ATOM]

one thing at a time boy!
He still has to see how he deals with a lightwieght before thinking about lawler or jones or nelson

 

[gstomp06]

if it stays standing, i think conor lights him up. but robbie would be an idiot if he kept it standing.

 

[JC ATOM]

Conor would KO Fabricio as well......

no way...i think it would be split decision..could go either way

 

[Saint mac]

And he's been KO'd how many times since? And faced some animals in the time.

That's a very fair point but you can't say he hasn't looked like his chin is on its way out, Macdonald & Condit nearly had him out of there, Lawler can be KO'd, Condit is the definition of a granite chin.

 

[jx820]

We're not even sure Conor can take RDA at this point. The Lawlor discussion is completely pointless right now.

 

[BigNuggetIce]

Who has he absolutely destroyed in the past fights?

I give him credit for fuckin' up Rory MacDonalds' nose but that was after he was losing the fight.
He lost to Condit but he got gifted a decision
He got gifted a decision against Hendricks
He got into decision with Matt Brown

Sure he has a lot power and punchers luck but his technique is not the cleanest, he simply charges at you and tries to knock you out, doesn't use wrestling, doesn't use BJJ and his fighters IQ is not the highest.

We have seen his struggle against skilled stand-up fighters, Melvin Manhoef for example: He was ABSOLUTELY killing Lawler until he landed the lucky overhand right that knocked Manhoef out. Manhoef is not known for a iron chin so its not a big surprise he got knocked out. Of course people will say that "it was years ago and he is a different fighter nowadays" but to be honest his stand-up is not that much better from their fight. Of course Manhoef and Conor have very different styles, but they're both fast, strong and calculated.

Now people seem to forget that Conor has a very good chin and his movement alone could be a big trouble for Lawler who is used to more traditional fighters, of course Lawler COULD knock out McGregor but that is very unlikely.

People also seem to forget that Conor has very good accuracy and he actually knows where to punch and when. This has been proven to you Conor haters time and time again, but you meat heads won't believe it. So be it.

Robbie is getting older all the time, he will soon be 34 so he is facing the end of his prime (most likely) so it will be another factor WHY Conor would beat him.

It is pretty obvious that out of all the champions Robbie is definitely the most entertaining one, but i have never felt that he deserves the spot. He belongs to the top 3 in my opinion and i don't think that he would even beat GSP. Of course now we can only speculate since GSP is no longer in the game, that is just my opinion.

If Conor beats RDA (In my opinion he will) i can't wait to see him vs. Lawler, might be even shorter fight than the upcoming RDA fight. You Conor haters are counting him out time and time again.

These days Robbie would tko gsp

 

[Jonny Quest]

Who has he absolutely destroyed in the past fights?

I give him credit for fuckin' up Rory MacDonalds' nose but that was after he was losing the fight.
He lost to Condit but he got gifted a decision
He got gifted a decision against Hendricks
He got into decision with Matt Brown

Sure he has a lot power and punchers luck but his technique is not the cleanest, he simply charges at you and tries to knock you out, doesn't use wrestling, doesn't use BJJ and his fighters IQ is not the highest.

We have seen his struggle against skilled stand-up fighters, Melvin Manhoef for example: He was ABSOLUTELY killing Lawler until he landed the lucky overhand right that knocked Manhoef out. Manhoef is not known for a iron chin so its not a big surprise he got knocked out. Of course people will say that "it was years ago and he is a different fighter nowadays" but to be honest his stand-up is not that much better from their fight. Of course Manhoef and Conor have very different styles, but they're both fast, strong and calculated.

Now people seem to forget that Conor has a very good chin and his movement alone could be a big trouble for Lawler who is used to more traditional fighters, of course Lawler COULD knock out McGregor but that is very unlikely.

People also seem to forget that Conor has very good accuracy and he actually knows where to punch and when. This has been proven to you Conor haters time and time again, but you meat heads won't believe it. So be it.

Robbie is getting older all the time, he will soon be 34 so he is facing the end of his prime (most likely) so it will be another factor WHY Conor would beat him.

It is pretty obvious that out of all the champions Robbie is definitely the most entertaining one, but i have never felt that he deserves the spot. He belongs to the top 3 in my opinion and i don't think that he would even beat GSP. Of course now we can only speculate since GSP is no longer in the game, that is just my opinion.

If Conor beats RDA (In my opinion he will) i can't wait to see him vs. Lawler, might be even shorter fight than the upcoming RDA fight. You Conor haters are counting him out time and time again.

Why does everybody think it will take a huge power shot to beat Lawler? Diaz KO'd him with a fucking jab

Who has he absolutely destroyed in the past fights?

I give him credit for fuckin' up Rory MacDonalds' nose but that was after he was losing the fight.
He lost to Condit but he got gifted a decision
He got gifted a decision against Hendricks
He got into decision with Matt Brown

Sure he has a lot power and punchers luck but his technique is not the cleanest, he simply charges at you and tries to knock you out, doesn't use wrestling, doesn't use BJJ and his fighters IQ is not the highest.

We have seen his struggle against skilled stand-up fighters, Melvin Manhoef for example: He was ABSOLUTELY killing Lawler until he landed the lucky overhand right that knocked Manhoef out. Manhoef is not known for a iron chin so its not a big surprise he got knocked out. Of course people will say that "it was years ago and he is a different fighter nowadays" but to be honest his stand-up is not that much better from their fight. Of course Manhoef and Conor have very different styles, but they're both fast, strong and calculated.

Now people seem to forget that Conor has a very good chin and his movement alone could be a big trouble for Lawler who is used to more traditional fighters, of course Lawler COULD knock out McGregor but that is very unlikely.

People also seem to forget that Conor has very good accuracy and he actually knows where to punch and when. This has been proven to you Conor haters time and time again, but you meat heads won't believe it. So be it.

Robbie is getting older all the time, he will soon be 34 so he is facing the end of his prime (most likely) so it will be another factor WHY Conor would beat him.

It is pretty obvious that out of all the champions Robbie is definitely the most entertaining one, but i have never felt that he deserves the spot. He belongs to the top 3 in my opinion and i don't think that he would even beat GSP. Of course now we can only speculate since GSP is no longer in the game, that is just my opinion.

If Conor beats RDA (In my opinion he will) i can't wait to see him vs. Lawler, might be even shorter fight than the upcoming RDA fight. You Conor haters are counting him out time and time again.

You mean he got lucky with those punches like Connor did with Aldo, Another Connor butthugger

 

[Chromosome47]

I'm not going to read anything in this thread, just wanted to stop by and say that TS is a fucking idiot.

 

[Saint mac]

You mean he got lucky with those punches like Connor did with Aldo, Another Connor butthugger

There's no evidence to suggest Conor couldn't have landed that left hand at will if the fight continued, you can't call it a lucky shot when we don't know what would have happened if the fight had continued, I'm not a Conor nuthugger, I think he's very beatable but I'm not going to pretend that Lawler is unbeatable because he certainly isn't, Rory & Condit both had him hurt, Rory was beating Lawler when the fight got stopped, Robbie isn't untouchable whatsoever.

 

[Lanx]

Look this is the story of 189.
Conor is not as gifted as many ppl in fighting, so he makes up for it with his other gifts, the gift of gab. Just like many ppl can't throw a strike to save themselves from a headkick like Ronda

She has other skills, like taunting before a match... well OK that didn't work either. But she has the best armbar in WMMA, OK, that didn't work either. She has the uncanny skill to stop a strike with her least desirable asset, her face! there I found a positive for Ronda.

But Conor was so gifted in the art of conversation that he made a foreigner EMO.

That's a fucking accomplishment, did you ever hire illegal workers and yell at them in English? they laugh at you!

But Conor was gifted an entire year to trash talk Aldo, to the point that Aldo duck and ran, like Aldo always does and they had to again gift Conor with an un-prepared Chad Mendes.

No one gave a shit about Conor's fake belt fight(as Rogan calls it) and stupid PRIDE antics of having some washed up bald thing singing leprechaun music, cuz they saw a fucking WAR with Lawler vs. Rory, fight of the year.

UFC were so desperate to save Face for Conor that they gave him Performance of the Night and stole that from Robbie, just so they can say Conor did something, so they could justify having that dumb bald thing pretend to sing.

Conor has to cut weight to fight midgets like Chad and Aldo, now that he's finally fighting at his proper weight class RDA will make him his Irish bitch, b/c all Conor is, is Cowboy - lite. And somehow you expect Conor to step into Robbie Lawlers Domain?

 

[Phronimos]

I agree. Conor has a better chance against Robbie than he does against a lot of WWs.

Conor is no joke. Elite ground fighters are his kryptonite, but if he can keep the fight in striking range, he is extremely dangerous against everyone. Nobody can take that left.

 

[Taric]

Robbie used to fight at MW, the size difference is significant. Lawler could probably rag doll McGregor and there'd be nothing Conor could do to stop it.