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It's pretty unanimous that Conor gassed big time in the second. He was out-punching Diaz comfortably through the first, Diaz landed a reasonable one-two and Conor gassed out at the flip of a switch. It didn't look like it hurt him, but he was broken within seconds after that shot, Diaz could see it, and he swarmed a defenseless MGregor.
Conor has never been taken to deep waters, granted, but we've seen him go 3 rounds comfortably with Holloway and he was also still fresh taking Mendez out late in the second. So, why did he gas so bad against Diaz? There's three possible answers:
1) the weight. The opposite to usual weight excuses - maybe packing on all that WW size at the last minute meant his cardio wasn't used to carrying it?
2) Conor was hurt from those early punches in the second. Maybe he was wobbly and couldn't recover from a swarming Diaz?
3) Disheartened by both Diaz's ability to weather his storm, and his own inability to put him away. Conor lit Diaz up in the first with easy combinations and although he busted him up a bit - Diaz cranked it up in the second. For the first time in his career, an opponent didn't crumble straight off the bat and Conor lost confidence.
What we can take away from this though is that all hype trains that seem unreasonable....usually are, Also that you can NEVER count a Diaz out of a fight.
Conor has never been taken to deep waters, granted, but we've seen him go 3 rounds comfortably with Holloway and he was also still fresh taking Mendez out late in the second. So, why did he gas so bad against Diaz? There's three possible answers:
1) the weight. The opposite to usual weight excuses - maybe packing on all that WW size at the last minute meant his cardio wasn't used to carrying it?
2) Conor was hurt from those early punches in the second. Maybe he was wobbly and couldn't recover from a swarming Diaz?
3) Disheartened by both Diaz's ability to weather his storm, and his own inability to put him away. Conor lit Diaz up in the first with easy combinations and although he busted him up a bit - Diaz cranked it up in the second. For the first time in his career, an opponent didn't crumble straight off the bat and Conor lost confidence.
What we can take away from this though is that all hype trains that seem unreasonable....usually are, Also that you can NEVER count a Diaz out of a fight.
