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People thought Rousey was unbeatable. So Ronda.
It's not.
Holloway was a flimsy fighter back when Conor faced him, still a boy.
Rewatch the Chad Mendes fight, Conor was gasping for breath at the end of the fight. The only reason Conor won is that Mendes was even more gassed, and a tiny person.
That Conor McGregor was a short-winded fighter might have escaped your notice, but this fact escaped mine. It was pretty clear.
Speak for yourself. It's okay to say as far as "you" knew, she don't have a right to speak for what I know.
I knew for sure Conor could not beat Nate Diaz on the ground, and I knew for sure he didn't have what it took to knock Nate Diaz out.
That Conor was a front runner was already evident, it just took raising the bar (and increasing the size of his opponents) to bring this to light.
The PBP of Conor vs Mendes is right here still and literally nobody after Conor won was talking about Conor's gas tank sucking and being exposed, but rather the usual suspects of:
Diaz I is the fight where his gas tank suddenly changed. It's indeed revisionist history to say otherwise.
- eArLy StOpPaGe
- RiGgEd
- ChAd WiNs WiTh FuLl CaMp
- AlDo Or FrAnKie BeAtS hIm
- HiS gRoUnD gAmE sTiLl SuCkS
The internet is forever man.
What does that have anything to do with my own personal observations?
"The Internet" is what I was talking about. When I was talking about was my perceptions.
Conor made everything look easy, because he was facing midgets like José Aldo (old, tiny, no takedown threat), Dennis Siever (old, tiny, no takedown threat).
In the Mendes fight, Conor was gasping for air.
Just because Blow Rogan didn't say anything doesn't mean individuals who watching this stuff. Conor was gasping for breath.
I'm not going to go back and forth with you on this, if you don't believe that I saw Conor McGregor as "short-winded" after that fight — and if you don't want to believe that I thought he was going to have a real tough time putting Diaz away + keeping up with him in the later rounds, you can think what you want.
That's exactly what I thought, and that's exactly what happened — Conor didn't have the firepower to put the much bigger Diaz away, and he didn't have the stamina to hang with him for more than 1.5 rounds.
As I said in my first post on this topic, my surprise was that Conor lasted as long as he did in the second fight, but it pretty much ended the same way the first fight did.
It's childlike for you to believe I'm making this up, but that's your prerogative.
Congrats on apparently being the only person to make this observation at the time, while simultaneously coincidentally there being zero proof you aren't just making this shit up as your account didn't exist back then.
Why are you so hostile?
And why do you think my opinion is based on "media" takes, rather than my own?
And I wasn't the only person who saw Conor's lack of stamina, or who questioned his abilities in the later rounds.
Stay mad though, it's funny.
holm was on the freaking view show and got huge popHolm vs Rousey. Casuals were fully on the train and people who would almost never talk to me about mma knew about Ronda. Hardcores would say she would get beat but she kept destroying girls inside a minute making them look dumb. We all know what finally happened.
People thought Rousey was unbeatable. So Ronda.
McGregor was about 4-1 betting vs Diaz. Far from an epic upset. Rousey was something like 10-1 until she looked crazy at the weigh in.
Edit: Rousey was about 15-1. After weigh ins about 8-1
This is my problem with the weight bully/size advantage shit people bring up on here. It only applies to fighters they don’t like.Conor made everything look easy, because he was facing midgets like José Aldo (old, tiny, no takedown threat), Dennis Siever (old, tiny, no takedown threat).
Lmao years after upsets happen everyone on Sherdog saw them coming.i love how this thread turned into people bragging about all the picks they got right when literally NOBODY asked about that.