What does McGregor do now? (mature please, long post)

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So we watched him look brilliant in the first round. I'm watching fists fly right by his dodging head, he cuts Diaz, and he even ends up on top of the ground at the end of the first. He looks invincible at this point. Irish people have hard-ons (myself included). Then, in McGregor fashion he gets overly cocky and confident, leaves himself open, and worst of all, thinks a cut and bloodied Diaz is a wounded animal (ridiculous, inexcusable mistake).

What does it take to make McGregor develop into a potential GOAT. Can he? After watching his arrogance finally cost him a fight, and most of all, his ground game exposed like it should have versus Mendes, can he right the ship? Now Mendes admits he is always in fight shape, but a camp develops a fighter to face a particular opponent. Mendes didn't have that. After tonight's fight, I'm legitimately curious if McGregor could fend off the best wrestler with a full training camp?

Could an adjustment in attitude save him?

Mature analysis and thoughts please (if you read that wall of text, you just might be interested in having a decent discussion).
 
He needs to devote himself to defense on the ground. Even if he goes down to 145 permanently. Wrestlers everywhere,its a huge hole in his game like it was for holm.
 
A professional fighter isn't looking good if they don't defend at all. McGregor did exactly what he shouldn't have against Diaz.
 
Mature analysis:




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He needs to go back down to 145 and defend his belt. It should be against Frankie Edgar the true number 1 contender but like Nate Diaz just said on his post fight interview "the Machine will do everything they can to keep this guy safe, even with you Frankie they'll find a way to not give you that fight"
 
you are going to see a much smarter fighter. He went in there and threw left hand bombs over and over again and was expecting to knockout Diaz. Diaz has shown to have an iron chin and in retrospect, he'll realize it was an awful game plan. He possibly wins this fight if he paced himself and just boxed Nate. He was getting the better of the standup until he gassed and slowed down in the second round. He hopefully now realizes he can't just rely on the left hand to connect and end the fight.
 
If he can't safely make 145. Which I'm curious about. His best option is to vacate and persue Conor Diaz 2 at LW.

He can play down the loss at WW. Say the fight at LW is the real war. Etc, etc.
 
Next for him should be Frankie. Or Aldo. But I'd rather have Frankie first. If he still has plans to fight at 155, he should fight qt least one top 10 guy before a title shot.
 
Fight at 145 get a couple off wins! Work hard on hes ground game and fight Nate at 155 then go for that LW title
 
NobodyNothing said:
If he can't safely make 145. Which I'm curious about. His best option is to vacate and persue Conor Diaz 2 at LW.

He can play down the loss at WW. Say the fight at LW is the real war. Etc, etc.
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that actually sounds very sensible and I hadn't thought it quite that way. but frankly if he couldn't KO Nate with those bombs I think it would be just a disappointing repeat. You lose power and gas more when your punching angle is tilted upward. My personal preference is to see him defend at 145 at least 3 times then move to LW. It is of course not optimally healthy for him to continue at 145 but he has proven he can do it and contrary to what some might think it will not now be even harder for him to get back down to that weight.
 
dubie86 said:
He needs to go back down to 145 and defend his belt. It should be against Frankie Edgar the true number 1 contender but like Nate Diaz just said on his post fight interview "the Machine will do everything they can to keep this guy safe, even with you Frankie they'll find a way to not give you that fight"
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Actually I think he should do the right thing and just vacate his 145 lb belt, I mean its what he was gonna most likely do if he had beaten Nate. If he goes back now he just looks like a 5th grade bully that got held back on purpose because he knows that he can still pick on all the elementary school kids and because he knows he cant hang with the big boys.
 
The dude is rich. He will have one more big pay day at 145 waiting for him. I think he's doing pretty good for himself.
 
Before he starts popping off at the mouth again, he should do what he said he's going to do and go back down to 145. He should stay there. If he defends successfully, he should do it at least 3 times before talking crap about other champs elsewhere. RDA would've put him in a BODY BAAAG tonight, and I think he realized it.

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I think he needs to work on his take-down defense, grappling and think about keeping his hands up and stop with the mind gamed during stand-up. Conor is smart. A lot of the mind games and verbal gymnastics are psychological ploys (beyond ways to generate fan interest and money) to cover up his weaknesses on the ground. If he can rattle a good grappler and lull them into his game, he wins. That didn't work against Diaz. Eventually, you have to start filling those holes in your game. Everyone has them.

If he does this, he's going to be hard for anyone (within reason) to beat. I'd like to see him defend his belt and vacate the title. That weight cut is just too much. He's a natural for the 155 lb division.
 
I'd say be more conservative. Conor never really had an opportunity to generally study Nate, he underestimated him. I would argue that Conor should take a more traditional root of defending the belt at FW and then taking some fights at LW.

Like Conor said. Anyone in any division that is making fun of Conor for someone's elses win is pathetic. The only one who has bragging rights is Nate. Nate has all the bragging rights.
 
dubie86 said:
He needs to go back down to 145 and defend his belt. It should be against Frankie Edgar the true number 1 contender but like Nate Diaz just said on his post fight interview "the Machine will do everything they can to keep this guy safe, even with you Frankie they'll find a way to not give you that fight"
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Like the Chad fight. Before it happend, many believed Chad could take him down repeatedly and pound on him. UFC made that matchup on 2 weeks notice to give conor his best chance with him. And it worked. Chad did what he could but then tired.
 
We've been telling you guys he's not well rounded and would be exposed and here it is.

His cardio is fucking terrible. dump this "movement" shtick and do proven movement like move 10 miles down a track every day.

He's a turtle on his back. get in tri-star or another camp and roll wresting and BJJ until he's at least a legitimate brown belt.
 
You forgot that he gassed, no ground game and even lost the stand up ultimately ( even though he was doing ok in the first round) as he went in panic mode (he said it himself)
Hardly goat material, the Next step will probably be losing his title.
 
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