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Both groups deserve praise. Don't get salty.
If it makes you feel better. They are not even close in the level of difficulty.
Both groups deserve praise. Don't get salty.
Yeah, he would probably get rekt by DC. He still offered to fight him. Back to your shitty life in Russia now, Igor.
Why do you take on Conors persona when writing?
I highly doubt more than 3 people know me on sherdog
Ayyyyy lmao, the Conor haters out in full force tonight.
Brandao and Brimage were both short notice if I remember correctly and that was well before he was getting paid the millions he is now.
He also took a bunch of short notice fights in his previous organization. Beat it, nerds.
All the guys I listed were claiming to be training and in better shape than Nate. I can't remember the number of weeks and not going to spend the time digging them up. If you're honest with yourself, you will google this topic and see that I'm right.
For real. I would fight the entire UFC roster for 10 mil. I dont give a hoot.I'd fight anyone for $10 million too, come on
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I'd take your word for it. But just because they were claiming to doesn't mean they were training or in better shape. Like I said, Cerrone had only come off a fight, so he seemed the logical choice. Don't forget Rogan and Dana mentioned Diaz had being training to do a Triathlon. Does that mean they were telling the truth? Of course not.
It's a big money fight for them, so they're going to say they've done X amount of training just to put their name forward. Even Aldo was asked and turned it down - despite his, 'anytime, anywhere' post despite possibly putting his health at more risk fighting so soon after being KO'd.
Conor and Diaz were linked with fighting one another at 189 - so I think it was always likely they'd get matched up. The popular choice was Diaz over Cerrone and again, nobody forced him to take the fight. People forget that is was set for 155 and Diaz said no bueno. Dana could have easily said 'fuck this' and given the fight to Cerrone.
There is some truth that Conor stayed on the card because he gets well paid, but he still risked his title shot - when most fighters would have sat out and it's MMA where anything can happen. I know people like to do the revisionism of Diaz being on a yacht and drinking shots just prior to that - there's no doubt that he wasn't ideally prepared - but when he done the post fight interview he talked about training at least 2 hours a day and doing some form of Martial Art.
I get that a lot of fans who just don't like Conor or are Aldo fans twist the story that Diaz was dragged off a yacht and was still half pissed while taking the fight. We found out that Diaz' cardio is freakishly good despite the lack of prep' But we wouldn't have found that out if it was a FN card and he was asked to fill in.
Chad is a cheat who got beat up and knocked out.It's pretty ridiculous the amount of conditioning it takes leading up to a fight to be able to go strong all 3 rounds let alone 5. Chad couldn't do it, especially not with a wrestling heavy game plan. I think Bisping would have slowed down a lot in rounds 4 or 5 against Rockhold. Nate was cruising and the fight ended only in the second round. I can't imagine anyone, not even the fellows at TAM who claim to be in shape all year round to be in the condition for peak performance all the time.
The secret to fighting a someone in worse conditioning is to drag out the fight longer. So yes, Conor fighting a guy on short notice while he had a full camp is highly advantageous for him.
Conor doesn't accept short notice fights, he only accepts change of opponents. There is a huge difference between the two.
Right on SargeHe definitely has good incentive to fight, let's just put it that way. All the other semantics don't even really mean anything when you focus on the compensation. And for the most part, it's what motivates all of us.
You make a lot of good points. As I see it though, Nate was the least ready fighter, simply because the essence of the Cabo story is true (even if he was hitting mitts on vacation): there are pics of him on Instagram or one of these SN sites on the boat around that time. Other fighters might have been playing up their readiness to get that money, no doubt.
I don't give a fook!Why do you take on Conors persona when writing?
I highly doubt more than 3 people know me on sherdog