fighting a wrestler on 2 weeks notice when preparing for a striker when It was thought that his kryptonite would be a strong wrestler, definitely not an easy fight. Same fight where he looked like skeletor and had one of the scariest weigh ins I've ever seen and reportedly tore his acl again during camp. This was also after a ridiculously extensive promotional world tour, having Conor pull out too would've been devastating..which Is probably a big reason he showed up despite such circumstances. Still, he showed up and managed to pull It out. With the way It seemed to go down, It's hard for me not to respect that one.No camp Mendes = easy fight.
Aldo = Killer champion. Greatest win.
RDA = the chance to win a new belt without risking his own.
No camp Nate = easy fight, still lost it.
Full camp Nate = became the money fight because Conor lost the first. Again, his belt not in line.
Eddie = see RDA above.
Floyd = money fight where everybody with half a brain knew he would lose while making millions anyway. Serves as an excuse to duck the killers at 155.
It's crystal clear Conor only takes risky fights when he has everything to win and nothing to lose.
PS.: Tyron's lame attempts at hand picking opponents and whining while doing it are even worse. At least Conor fights exciting.
had nothing to do with being an easy fight, everything to do with being the best fight from a business standpoint that could be made. There was a backstory that could be built upon.He thought Diaz was the easiest fight he could pick at the time and then got fucked up!
Ahh, pretty sure the only one's that will simply remember Conor for never defending a title will be this guy:Conor also never defended a title, and quite honestly, that's what he'll be remembered for.
What Tyrone and some of these other guys dont get is that Conor did exactly the opposite of what they are doing.
Aldo was a killer. He wasnt an easy fight or a money fight. Nobody bought aldo ppv's.
Mendes wasnt a draw and conor fought him on 2 weeks notice.
RDA was a killer at the time at 155 and nobody bought his ppv's.
Nate Diaz never sold ppvs and COnor fought him on 2 weeks notice.
Conor always went after the toughest guys and slept them.
COnor didnt chase the money fight. He went after killers and Conor became the money fight.
FLoyds ppv before conor barely sold 400k buys. Floyd went after the money fight which was Conor.
Conor made money but again boxing floyd was a tough fight. Certainly not easy.
Case after case Conor went after the toughest fights and for the most part beat their ass.
That's the blueprint.
Not the crying like a baby blueprint that Tyrone and some of these other guys are doing. calling out easy fights and all this other nonsense.
These guys cant even hold Conors Jock Strap.
What Tyrone and some of these other guys dont get is that Conor did exactly the opposite of what they are doing.
Aldo was a killer. He wasnt an easy fight or a money fight. Nobody bought aldo ppv's.
Mendes wasnt a draw and conor fought him on 2 weeks notice.
RDA was a killer at the time at 155 and nobody bought his ppv's.
Nate Diaz never sold ppvs and COnor fought him on 2 weeks notice.
Conor always went after the toughest guys and slept them.
COnor didnt chase the money fight. He went after killers and Conor became the money fight.
FLoyds ppv before conor barely sold 400k buys. Floyd went after the money fight which was Conor.
Conor made money but again boxing floyd was a tough fight. Certainly not easy.
Case after case Conor went after the toughest fights and for the most part beat their ass.
That's the blueprint.
Not the crying like a baby blueprint that Tyrone and some of these other guys are doing. calling out easy fights and all this other nonsense.
These guys cant even hold Conors Jock Strap.
He doesn't need to.Why doesn't he come back to fight the interim champion then?
Ahh, pretty sure the only one's that will simply remember Conor for never defending a title will be this guy:
Other than the minority of mentally ill professional Conor haters that dwell in the basement of Sherdog, I'm pretty sure he will be remembered as one of the greatest and most exciting talents MMA has ever seen, a revolutionary mixed martial artist and possibly the greatest businessman that the fight game has ever seen.
Oh yah, and this:
And this:
"Everyone" is not just people on here. Ali was mercilessly shit on by the hardcore community in his day, all fighters were, but history and rational thinking change it all. There is no one ion the relevant media that would say 1/100th the garbage that Shertards say, because they are the fringe.I really don't think he will be. Everyone shits on fighters from the past and nobody remembers how good they were, take Forrest for example: World champion, choked out shogun, TUF finale fight, always entertaining, yet in 2018 people just think he was a can.
People shit on GSP and Anderson despite how many title defences they had and how dominant they were, so what hope does Conor have in 10 years from now?