Hot Take Topuria is making Conor disappear

[Rampage_Jackson]

lol Conor was a flash in the pan jobber, he only had a few huge fights

Illia is only 28 and could be dominating the sport for the next 7 years until his prime ends

he wont go off the rails because he's a well rounded professional and not some dumb ass coke head scrub

Thats great. Conor got more popular and made more in a few huge fights than Ilia will in his career its basically a guarantee. Ilia being a lot better doesn't mean shit

 

[TrueBias]

Thats great. Conor got more popular and made more in a few huge fights than Ilia will in his career its basically a guarantee. Ilia being a lot better doesn't mean shit

Fucking fortune teller over here...

Call now!

 

[ocfightfan]

Honestly I think Conor is retired, maybe not officially, but he is only milking the possibility of coming back to keep his name in the papers.

That said, if you don't fight the MMA world moves on. Yeah, Ilia is the new hot girl at the high school, but it's really just Father Time that is making Conor disappear.

 

[Rampage_Jackson]

Fucking fortune teller over here...

Call now!

Its not a bold prediction. Conor was the most popular fighter in the sports history by a few miles. Nobody outside of the MMA bubble knows who Ilia is. He doesn't move needles like Conor. Its no slight to him as a fighter. He's way better than any version of Conor.

 

[TrueBias]

Its not a bold prediction. Conor was the most popular fighter in the sports history by a few miles. Nobody outside of the MMA bubble knows who Ilia is. He doesn't move needles like Conor. Its no slight to him as a fighter. He's way better than any version of Conor.

He is way better, well, will be if he continues. Hes got actual KOs, not TKOs. Hell sell better, plus conor (and jon) is reminding everyone coming up of what NOT to do.

He just needs to keep winning.

 

[Shaolin Alan]

Ilia would sacrifice his son to be as popular as Conor. He's a grown man who stole Conor's tattoos lol.

Ilia is a better fighter who cares. Conor could make Ilia more money in one night than Ilia would otherwise make in his life

I had no idea this level of Cooner glazing still existed on Sherdog??!!

 

[Steve Fox]

Conor did that to himself. It started with Floyd, continued with Poirier wife in his DMs and ended in all the court cases while punching old mem in pubs plus people in Ibiza nightclubs.

There's no rivalry, comparisson, nothing.

 

[hbombbisping]

Conor did that to himself. It started with Floyd, continued with Poirier wife in his DMs and ended in all the court cases while punching old mem in pubs plus people in Ibiza nightclubs.

There's no rivalry, comparisson, nothing.

It started with Nate Diaz

 

[volcom5]

There’s always new eyes to this sport, in short lots of fans has never seen Conor Mcgregor fight live. They know of him that is all. Topuria is much more like than Conor and his hardcore fans are not retarded with delusions.

 

[ricc505]

We need a clip of Connor saying Topuria "is taking evening he worked for"

 

[Meathead Jock]

lol Conor was a flash in the pan jobber, he only had a few huge fights

Illia is only 28 and could be dominating the sport for the next 7 years until his prime ends

he wont go off the rails because he's a well rounded professional and not some dumb ass coke head scrub

Lots of people dominated the sport more than McGregor. Doing that doesn't make you more popular.

 

[hbombbisping]

Lots of people dominated the sport more than McGregor. Doing that doesn't make you more popular.

Topuria is marketable and is the best knockout artist we've seen in the sport, and has goat potential.

Conor was a glorified gatekeeper who had a few good nights and a few really bad ones.

 

[Chagaev]

Conor was a very good fighter when he was hungry. Even in his drunk version, when he fought Khabib, he did better than the others 155ers.

 

[Aurelian]

Its not a bold prediction. Conor was the most popular fighter in the sports history by a few miles. Nobody outside of the MMA bubble knows who Ilia is. He doesn't move needles like Conor. Its no slight to him as a fighter. He's way better than any version of Conor.

Two things.

One) Conor's fight with Mayweather is what boosted his profile tremendously. If you put any fighter in with someone on the level of Floyd popularity wise, it's going to help them out in a major way.

Two) Most of Conor's wealth came from Proper 12, not his fight purses. He made roughly 400 million (or something like that) when he sold Proper 12.

 

[hbombbisping]

Conor was a very good fighter when he was hungry. Even in his drunk version, when he fought Khabib, he did better than the others 155ers.

Conor is a tomato can in comparison to Topuria

 

[Bowel-forged Stool]

Illia is conor

I knew his striking has regressed, but didn’t know he was cutting height. Damn shame

 

[AmonTobin]

More like the mania has migrated from Conor to Ilia. Topuria is absorbing the McGregorManiacs fan base. The amount of threads I’ve seen stating everyone’s afraid of him, he should be given the chance to be triple belt champ now, he’s unstoppable, etc. Some people are losing their damn minds.

 

[vlz]

what is a conor



and who are you and what is this place

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Nothing to do with Topuria, Colin has done that all by himself, by not winning, and then not fighting for many years and being an absolute mess

 

[Rampage_Jackson]

Two things.

One) Conor's fight with Mayweather is what boosted his profile tremendously. If you put any fighter in with someone on the level of Floyd popularity wise, it's going to help them out in a major way.

Two) Most of Conor's wealth came from Proper 12, not his fight purses. He made roughly 400 million (or something like that) when he sold Proper 12.

Conor wouldn't have gotten the Floyd fight in the first place without a massive profile that far outshines any UFC fighter before or since. That was the whole point. And he's the leader in career UFC earnings and did it in like 15 fights