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Can we all just stop talking about Conor. He doesn't fight and it's getting old
Didn't McGregor release footage of him against some tall southpaw boxer in the leadup to the Diaz rematch, and the boxer in question called him out on editing the footage?
Edit: Chris Van Heerden
My post wasn't a question of who released the footage first, it's the fact that McGregor edited the footage to make himself look better.no, that boxer uploaded video first, so Conor posted longer version as a direct respond.
LOL as the ref is in the hand motion of designating not a KD, but a slip/tripView attachment 559291 Paulie was on his ass, Conor was off balance lol
My post wasn't a question of who released the footage first, it's the fact that McGregor edited the footage to make himself look better.
Why boxer Chris van Heerden leaked (unedited) Conor McGregor sparring footage
https://mmajunkie.com/2017/06/boxer...or-mcgregor-sparring-footage-floyd-mayweather
“So, with the talks of the fight with Mayweather going on, if I moved around with Conor, I knew people were going to want to know who I was. So I said yes, but it was a big risk because I was out of shape and hadn’t trained for a month.”
It was at the beginning of their second session that van Heerden said he noticed a profound shift in dynamic.
“We sparred on two different occasions,” he said. “When I sparred with him on the first occasion, which was even worse than the second time, I cut his nose, but it was all fun. We weren’t in there trying to kill each other.
“The next session was the one from where the footage leaked. Conor came in with his camera people, so at the same time, I told one of my friends to take out his phone and record it too.”
Van Heerden claimed that he did not give permission to either his gym or McGregor for anything that was recorded to be published in the public domain. But it was soon in the hands of TMZ, which did just that.
While it came as a shock, one that compelled him to leave the gym permanently, van Heerden said that the great bombshell arrived when McGregor’s website, the MacLife.com, also posted footage of their time in the ring.
Van Heerden said that their version was purposely edited in a manner that showed McGregor to be getting the better of their exchanges.
“Then TMZ released the footage, and I asked the gym owner how they got their hands on it,” he said. “They said they had spoken to Conor, who said it was OK to release the footage. But nobody had ever asked for my approval.”
“Conor McGregor’s team edited and posted footage for the MacLife of the sparring session between me and Conor, and it made me look very bad,” he said. “Then the media blew up, saying ‘Conor McGregor beats up ex-world champion boxer’ and all this.”
Believing his professional reputation was tarnished, van Heerden responded by publishing what had been filmed on his friend’s phone.
“I was in a bad place right there,” he said. “My world was crashing down, because why would these people do this? But I had footage from my friend’s phone, so after about a week of all this, I thought I’m not going to let Conor get away with this.
“So I put out the six-minute unedited version that my friend had, and people can judge from that. I gave it to TMZ, and suddenly, people were like maybe it wasn’t as one-sided as Conor made out.”
Interesting if true.Non-jetlagged Paulie in a boxing match would put Conor in the morgue.
Sources say that Paulie actually knocked Conor out so badly in their sparring session that his fight with Mayweather was in jeopardy. They worried that the brain damage he received at the hands of Paulie would prevent him from getting cleared to fight. Luckily Uncle Bobby Dana greased some palms in Vegas and the fight went on regardless. This is why Conor has never released the full footage; shortly after Paulie tripped, he started clowning Conor and put him to sleep.
He won't beat Paulie and he won't fight Paulie. Difference is he knew Floyd was gonna cruise and not make it a massacre, (honestly Floyd could've Gatti'd Conor in 3 rounds), but then everyone would've been pissed, so it went how it went.Conor vs Paulie would be a great event, settle this feud once and for all, I'd tune in
Paulie would suffer extreme professional embarrassment if he lost to Conor in a boxing match
The issue is, it's an amateur that would get smoked by any professional in the Top 100 in their weight class. So Conor got in some cracks, it's Boxing...Looked like Conor tripped, tbh, hardly would call that a rock. And it looked like Conor tagged the other dude at least twice. Otherwise looked like a fair match. Nothing to boast about from Paulie. And I'm not a fan of Conor.
He has sold it to Netflix as part of the documentary supposedly.. the guy doesn’t leave a chance to make money whatever he doesThat didn't look like a legit knockdown. But I also doubt that Conor was whipping Paulie's ass like he claims. An egomaniac like Conor would have definitely released the full footage if it made him look good. Hell, he would have made it a PPV to see it.