Is Conor ko'ing Aldo the greatest fighting performance in the UFC history?

ipowerslapmywife said:
Conor didn’t give him a rematch because the weight cut was getting harder for him. Nothing about it was a fluke, Conor was the superior boxer coming in and countered him in an exchange, nothing fluky about it. That’s why people thought Aldo would even try to wrestle Conor.
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Maybe fluke is not the right word, but still, I don't think anyone would think it would end in record fashion.

When was the IV ban instituted? That could be a factor.

I never heard anyone that really understood MMA say that Aldo, who never wrestles, would wrestle Conor.
 
The Conor-Aldo KO narrative really shows you how mentally deficient most MMA fans are. The idea that a 13 second flash KO is somehow more decisive than an extended beatdown was simply a constructed shill narrative. It was used to justify not giving Aldo a rematch, even though the quickness of the fight left so many unanswered questions.

It was the opposite of decisive. Two men landed a punch right at the start of the fight, one got split open, one got KOd. It proved very little about their overall skills. It proved even less than JDS vs Cain 1 did - at least JDS didn't get busted open doing it.

It would be like claiming Condit-Hardy is the best KO of all time. There was nothing amazing about the KO at all. Aldo monged out, swung wildly, landed but paid for it. It is a very mediocre KO when you take the hysteria out of it.
 
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What a performance!!!
 
of course it is

consider that's the iconic moment for the goat of mma

the god of martial art, the notorious!
 
No, it was a one punch KO but it's more impressive to outclass the opponent.

Bonnar vs. Griffin was astonishing. Cain vs. JDS II and III also.

Randy vs. Sylvia.

GSP vs. Hughes II, III, Fitch, Penn II.

Jones vs. Shogun.

Demetrius vs. Reis/Borg were the most perfect MMA performance I've seen in terms of precision and skill.

Khabib vs. Conor.
 
The real best performance is Dana and Conor ducking the rematch at 145 with Aldo.
Instead they tried to get Aldo to fight him at 155 with no title on the line.

Edit: on short notice no less.
 
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krelianx said:
No, it was a one punch KO but it's more impressive to outclass the opponent.

Bonnar vs. Griffin was astonishing. Cain vs. JDS II and III also.

Randy vs. Sylvia.

GSP vs. Hughes II, III, Fitch, Penn II.

Jones vs. Shogun.

Demetrius vs. Reis/Borg were the most perfect MMA performance I've seen in terms of precision and skill.

Khabib vs. Conor.
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Hunto vs Bigfoot was an absolute war.
 
Hazuki Ryo said:
Greater than Silva matrixing Forrest because obviously Aldo was a legitimate GOAT candidate, and a striking specialist.

Greater than Jones vs Shogun I think, because of all the mental game that broke Aldo

Was there a better fight preparation and result than this one? From a fighter's perspective, being able to get into one of the greatest of all time fighter's head, then ko'ing him in 13 seconds.. This has to be the perfect execution of a gameplan. Injury free and famous for it for the rest of his days
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If it wasn't the biggest fluke of all time, he would have done it again
 
It was a punch, not a performance. That's like asking if the way an actor delivered a particular line was the "greatest performance in film history." To me, "performance" implies some degree of duration, and there just wasn't any of that in Conor/Aldo.
 
I felt like Conor had better performances than this even. Aldo uncharacteristically jumped the gun and paid the ultimate price. It's why people would like to see how a rematch would go, regardless of result.
 
Hazuki Ryo said:
Greater than Silva matrixing Forrest because obviously Aldo was a legitimate GOAT candidate, and a striking specialist.

Greater than Jones vs Shogun I think, because of all the mental game that broke Aldo

Was there a better fight preparation and result than this one? From a fighter's perspective, being able to get into one of the greatest of all time fighter's head, then ko'ing him in 13 seconds.. This has to be the perfect execution of a gameplan. Injury free and famous for it for the rest of his days
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I'd rank Serra over GSP above this one
 
Dr Fong said:
The Conor-Aldo KO narrative really shows you how mentally deficient most MMA fans are. The idea that a 13 second flash KO is somehow more decisive than an extended beatdown was simply a constructed shill narrative. It was used to justify not giving Aldo a rematch, even though the quickness of the fight left so many unanswered questions.

It was the opposite of decisive. Two men landed a punch right at the start of the fight, one got split open, one got KOd. It proved very little about their overall skills. It proved even less than JDS vs Cain 1 did - at least JDS didn't get busted open doing it.
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Nah.

What people like you never understand with these absolutely retarded takes is that there's a massive difference between "getting caught" fighting like you were going to anyways vs "getting caught" fighting completely different than you normally do.

Aldo was always going to box with Conor because Aldo boxes with everybody. That's how he fights. He uses his TDD and leg checks to force boxing matches. Getting countered by the better boxer isn't a fluke, even if it took 13 seconds.

Cain by contrast is a wrestler-boxer who was supposed to wrestle JDS and mix things up, not stand completely still in front of him. He didn't because he'd injured his knee and refused to pull out of the first Fox card so was forced to try and box JDS without his mobility. That's why the rematches went so differently when Cain had healthy knees and could fight like he was always supposed to in the first fight had he been healthy.

It's why you guys have to do retarded takes like saying Aldo would've leg kicked or grappled Conor to beat him. You have to make him into a completely different fighter to try and avoid saying he's going to box with with Conor and Conor's the better boxer, thus always leading to it being an uphill match for him.
 
StonedLemur said:
The real best performance is Dana and Conor ducking the rematch at 145 with Aldo.
Instead they tried to get Aldo to fight him at 155 with no title on the line.
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You mean exactly like Aldo said he'd do?

Only to then turn it down and let Cabo Nate get all the glory of beating him?
 
markg171 said:
Nah.

What people like you never understand with these absolutely retarded takes is that there's a massive difference between "getting caught" fighting like you were going to anyways vs "getting caught" fighting completely different than you normally do.

Aldo was always going to box with Conor because Aldo boxes with everybody. That's how he fights. He uses his TDD and leg checks to force boxing matches. Getting countered by the better boxer isn't a fluke, even if it took 13 seconds.

Cain by contrast is a wrestler-boxer who was supposed to wrestle JDS and mix things up, not stand completely still in front of him. He didn't because he'd injured his knee and refused to pull out of the first Fox card so was forced to try and box JDS without his mobility. That's why the rematches went so differently when Cain had healthy knees and could fight like he was always supposed to in the first fight had he been healthy.

It's why you guys have to do retarded takes like saying Aldo would've leg kicked or grappled Conor to beat him. You have to make him into a completely different fighter to try and avoid saying he's going to box with with Conor and Conor's the better boxer, thus always leading to it being an uphill match for him.
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As I have previously advised you, I don't think using words like 'retarded' is effective shilling.

For those playing along, I never said 'Aldo just got caught'. Conor won fair and square and I never said he would lose the rematch. I'm no Aldo mark, I'm the guy who pisses everyone off by pointing out Aldo got destroyed by Volk, Max and Conor and that calling him the FW GOAT is therefore laughable.

It's just that narrative that a 13-second KO where the loser makes an obvious error is somehow MORE decisive than an extended beating is what is 'retarded'.
 
Dr Fong said:
As I have previously advised you, I don't think using words like 'retarded' is effective shilling.

For those playing along, I never said 'Aldo just got caught'. Conor won fair and square and I never said he would lose the rematch. I'm no Aldo mark, I'm the guy who pisses everyone off by pointing out Aldo got destroyed by Volk, Max and Conor and that calling him the FW GOAT is therefore laughable.

It's just that narrative that a 13-second KO where the loser makes an obvious error is somehow MORE decisive than an extended beating is what is 'retarded'.
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Your definition of "obvious error" though is Aldo boxing with Conor. Which is what he was always going to do, lunge or not. Which Conor was clearly expecting regardless of whether or not you were. It's always just been cope to say that it was a fluke. 13 seconds or not, Aldo was going to box with Conor as that's how Aldo fights. And Conor's the better boxer.

And the comparison everybody makes to JDS/Cain 1 is beyond stupid as Cain only stationarily boxed with JDS because his knees were injured and so couldn't fight his usual style like he did in the rematches. They're absolutely nothing unlike. Aldo boxed like he was going to, Cain boxed because he had to.
 
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