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Love him or hate him, this is funny to watch:

3 hours ago, Egg Shen said:

Yeh its completely going over my head, and im not sure why? I think the long layoffs isnt helping and im trying to remind myself just how good Volkanovski is.

 

For me it just doesn't really feel like Ortega should be challenging for the belt. In my mind he got badly beaten by Holloway, disappeared for 3 years and now has a title shot off the back of one win against someone not near the title picture. Maybe that's just me. 

Well that's one way to avoid missing weight!

Haha! That's priceless! If only it cut to a close up of his reaction.

Obviously a bad photo but yeah ... yikes.

6 hours ago, Egg Shen said:

1 round, no time limit!

Severn inside one minute by headbutts to the dick and balls.

That fight reminded me that I haven't really missed Woodley in the UFC. Such a hesitant fighter; it felt like he could've ended that at any point in the second half of the fight. Just needed to exploded with a combination and it would've been done.

Do we know that Ngannou isn't guilty of unreasonable requests? Serious question ... I haven't been paying attention. 

Surprised Arnold Allen isn't a feature on this card. 

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CRWcjgDpIjg/?utm_medium=copy_link

That isn't a shock though, is it!? Wouldn't he have kept it to himself to protect the fight? Still seems clear that any injury he had before the fight was purely coincidental.

Actually feel a bit sorry for Mcgregor having watched that. All things aside, I wouldn't wish that on anyone, that recovery is going to suck.

They made a bet that the loser has to have "I LOVE [opponent's name]" tattooed on them!

Of course they did ...

15 minutes ago, Egg Shen said:

yeh that was a bad one too. Did Conor actually call to be interviewed? ive only seen it once so cant recall.

He was making a load of noise (not clear enough to hear what he was saying) off camera when Rogan was in the cage. Then I think Rogan said something along the lines of "I'll come and talk to you too". Then there was a long pause when Rogan and Mcgregor were off screen following Poirier's interview - plenty of time for Mcgregor to make it clear he was in no position to be interviewed.

Nice slow-mo of the teep that John Kavanagh claims did the initial damage to Mcgregor's leg:

8 hours ago, neil said:

This is a funny photo, but really shameful on the part of UFC and Rogan to do this.

To be fair, McGregor was calling Rogan over wasn't he? It's not like they forced the mic in his face and made him talk.

5 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

I know I’d be downvoted to fuck on Sherdog but the O’Malley vs Moutinho match was pretty uncomfortable to watch. I was hoping it would’ve been stopped a lot sooner as he was never going to win and just risked more and more damage. Had no business being in there, but will have secured more UFC fights in doing so!

Couldn't agree more. Corner should've stopped him coming out after round 2. 

Exactly Wand. At the end of the day, Poirier just knocked him out. No amount of his talk can really get passed that. It's just not the same as back in the Aldo days. The fact he's clearly trying says a lot though. 

1 minute ago, Egg Shen said:

awesome, enjoy it @HobowithaShotgun

 

1-0 Poirier for me. McGregor tried to kekindle the old magic but it wasnt there for me. Poirier not phased in the slightest.

Props to the guy who opened his question with "Conor, you've won one fight since Barack Obama was president..." 😄

Yeah, thought basically the same. Poirier was visibly aggitated at times but largely didn't bite. Pulled a Khabib on McGregor.

It's basically impossible to say without sounding like you've been worked because we've heard the bullshit so many times before ... but McGregor does genuinely look more up for this one. In an earlier interview I saw him mention getting into Dustin's head before the fight and you can see here that he's working hard to try and do that. He seems to be doing less media than normal and he's left his family at home instead of bringing them with him like normal. Don't get me wrong, I'm not buying it as being the reason he lost the second fight and I don't see it changing the result on Saturday. It's fair to argue he's more focused for this one though.

See he's popping up all over the place in interviews now. Must've read my post. 😂

Interesting that he's claiming he was in a sort of split camp for the second fight - half for Poirier and half for a Manny Pacquiao fight that was supposed to follow Poirier. Was there any serious talk of that at the time or is it just bullshit?

1 hour ago, Kfogg1991 said:

Yeah I won't be watching live. I'll watch first thing when I get up tomorrow morning. 

As we draw closer though I am getting more confident for Conor. Here's hoping 

Dustin by stoppage. 😉

Is Mcgregor doing absolutely no promotion for this fight? Haven't seen him do a single interview this week and he's not even in the embedded videos.

On 7/3/2021 at 12:55 PM, Kfogg1991 said:

As we get closer to this PPV I'm genuinely getting more nervous for Conor. Everyone is saying this is McGregor's last roll of the dice in MMA and I have to agree. 
If he looses again you have to think he will throw in the towel and walk away from the UFC forever.....or at least until he spunks a load of his money. 

I think that, at the very least, he has the Nate Diaz trilogy left in him regardless of the result this weekend. It'll be up to him ultimately, there's no way the UFC refuse to book that fight if he wants it. He could have walked away after the Khabib loss when it became clear he wasn't getting the rematch, but he didn't. Win or lose, I think he fights again. I think his ego is too big to go out on a loss.

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I do want a Conor to win but with him coming out and saying stuff like don't throw any takedowns, let's just stand and bang you have to think he isn't feeling totally comfortable with Dustin on the ground.

I think that's just standard pre-fight talk, to be honest. I don't see how he beats Dustin. I don't see how he stops Dustin on the feet. It's become pretty clear now that his power doesn't carry through to lightweight. He landed clean in the second fight and Dustin walked through it. I don't see how he beats Dustin on the ground. He certainly doesn't out wrestle him and he has a total of 1 win by submission in his career - a decade ago in Cage Warriors. The only way he beats Dustin is to out-point him, but that means going the distance and Conor's biggest weakness has always been his gas tank.

We have to consider the fact that Mcgregor has been here before when he came back and beat Nate Diaz. That was a points win where he narrowly came out on top by executing a good game plan. I think Dustin is a better fighter than Nate Diaz was at that time, though. I just don't see how Mcgregor wins.

Always assumed they'd do the other Paul brother against Mayweather next. They'd seemed to set it up so that, regardless of the outcome last night, they could move straight into doing that.

By bullying Mayweather, he's in danger of a premature face-turn.

Does a fight like this have to be sanctioned by a boxing commission? How does anyone justify sanctioning a fight between someone who is 50-0 and someone who is 0-1?

Is it likely the rules of the fight will be so strict that it'll be a boxing fight in name only? Is that why they haven't announced the specifics along with the fight annoucement?

15 hours ago, David said:

Aain, even if McGregor wants to fight this guy (and I'm not all that sure he does) there'd be no way it happens while he's under UFC contract. Unless Paul signs to fight under the UFC banner it won't be happening.

I remember the exact same thing being said about McGregor fighting Mayweather.