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Why did Eddie put up no resistance against Conor?

Söze Aldo

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He was the reigning champion in the higher weight class, taking on a guy moving up. It wasn't just that he lost; he barely put up a fight. It wasn't an Aldo flash KO situation, it was as though he was broken down without resistance.

Was it a mental issue for him, or was he simply not deserving of being the LW champ?

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He tried to box and got out-boxed.
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Because then everyone would know it wasn't consensual.
 
Mammothman said:
Because he was never that good to begin with and got lucky winning 2 split decisions and fought a half dead Dos Anjos.
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Prime Eddie is an all time great LW. He was already a bit past his prime when he got to the ufc.

Went on to beat RDA, Gaethje and have a competitive fight, then loss to Poirier when his age began to show.

His 2 wars against Prime Michael Chandler was the best version of both of them. He was a great fighter, ranked top 5 at LW for years and years, even #1 for a long time before he ever got to the ufc.

So was Conor though.

Conor has basically been a ghost of himself since that fight. It's really the last time we seen a truly elite version of him at his counter striking best.

That version of Conor would be a tough style fight for anyone in the division outside of the Dagestanis.
 
Söze Aldo said:
He was the reigning champion in the higher weight class, taking on a guy moving up. It wasn't just that he lost; he barely put up a fight. It wasn't an Aldo flash KO situation, it was as though he was broken down without resistance.

Was it a mental issue for him, or was he simply not deserving of being the LW champ?

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Because he got completely fucked up by a superior fighter.

Love how people always try to rewrite history. Prime Conor was a good fighter guys, you can hate the guy and still admit reality, its completely okay.
 
pamirec said:
I think Eddie wasn’t there mentally. Dude didn’t even get big money for that fight AFAIK.
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Yep, eddie has never been someone known with a good fight IQ. He easily gets hit, likely has built up damage from wars, and was scared.

Conor is only elite at one thing: selling himself and eddie bought it.
 
Alvarez lazily circled into Conor's left, got knocked down, got back up, repeated the sequence, and kept repeating it until he couldn't get back up. There was some variation in the second round, but Eddie kept going back to that lazy circle to his right into Conor's left. An extreme display of bad fight IQ, and Conor took full advantage.
 
Eddie admitted himself he choked and it was one of his worst career performances.

Conor also fared well against midgets. He lost to Nate Diaz before the Eddit fight... arguably twice.
 
Combination of Connor being smart and skilled at the time and Eddie being overconfident. Connor and his coaches really analyzed his opponents and made great gameplans based on their styles. I think Eddie felt Connor was just a big mouth who wasn't on his level. Learned the hard way.
 
He didn't even try to implement his plan of get the TD and sub him. He immediately tried to brawl and it cost him badly.
 
MarioLemieux said:
Eddie admitted himself he choked and it was one of his worst career performances.

Conor also fared well against midgets. He lost to Nate Diaz before the Eddit fight... arguably twice.
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He didn't say he choked. He said he threw the game plan out the window as soon as the fight started.
 
For some reason Eddie forget he could wrestle.

Would have enjoyed the fight more if Eddie didn't bring his wife.
 
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