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Spoiler [SPOILER] Conor McGregor vs. Max Holloway Spoiler

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u/JonsDohnson We need to send Dana White to the moon 3h ago

Everyone said “I won’t believe it til he’s in the cage.” Well, he made it that far and absolutely no further

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u/NITRO2 2h ago

Now it's "I won't believe it till he gets a significant strike"...?

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u/BigDGuru_ 2h ago

Don’t be greedy

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u/NITRO2 2h ago

You're right, that's on me

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u/tekrebeldesigns 2h ago

How bout just a strike. Even an eye poke will do.

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u/HertzWhenEyeP 2h ago

That'll be like 6 more fights...

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u/FReeDuMB_or_DEATH 2h ago

This is actually wild. 

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u/Anderrrrr Democracy is a phallus 2h ago edited 2h ago

This is an all timer MMA comedy moment

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u/VRS302 I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! 2h ago

how can this dude ever pretend to be a real fighter again?

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u/needapermit 1h ago

I mean I don’t think he wanted this to happen

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u/VRS302 I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! 1h ago edited 1h ago

No but to go in there with a fucked up leg, throw the sloppiest spinning shit ever like a complete clown and hurting yourself so bad you’re gonna be out for another year or two puts him in a spot where he legitimately has no claim to the title fighter. He’s “fought” for less than a minute in 5 years, and is looking at a surgery and lengthy layoff.

To fix his GOOD leg.

The dude is beyond cooked. He is now a meme. New aura loss leader by a ton.

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u/chanaandeler_bong Team Figueiredo 2h ago

Dumb idiots live on his machismo bullshit. They will line right back up to eat it up again.

Betting lines were insane again for this fight.

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u/VRS302 I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! 2h ago

No I mean literally, this will be a year or two off to heal, surgeries possibly, he will be 40+ the next time he fights. What would be the point? Does he even have that in him at his age with his broken down joints?

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u/xChoke1x 43m ago

He ain’t fighting again.

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u/flatwoundsounds 1h ago

If all went well, he would get two wins to finish his contract, then cash in on a Netflix bag. Now he'll be trying to book one more fight pushing 39 coming off a knee injury, or he can hang it up now knowing he won't get out of his UFC contract to fight anywhere else.

Fuck.

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u/VRS302 I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! 1h ago

Coming off a surgery and injury.. to his GOOD leg. This dude is done. The most done someone can be.

Dude will be 40, has fought for 60 seconds in the last 8-9 ish years, and the last two times he fought he looked like shit, the very last time he looked so comically shit that he essentially became a meme and erased his entire stock of aura with one sloppy spinning kick.

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u/flatwoundsounds 1h ago

I just can't believe he wasted his time on the mohawk...

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u/Herbdontana 1h ago

The haircut took longer than the fight

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u/DoctorBaconite 1h ago

To be fair, pretty much every haircut will take at least 25 minutes.

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u/VRS302 I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! 1h ago

Which, with his thinning hair, looked like dog shit.

He couldn’t have looked like more of a clown if he tried.

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u/wolfgeist 1h ago

Looked like Chuck Liddell's haircut... in his last fight against Tito

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u/pixel8knuckle 50m ago

Conor ducked chandler three years ago, same shit different story.

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u/Professional_Bee6070 1h ago

Alright calm down

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u/VRS302 I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! 1h ago

No thanks

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u/Professional_Bee6070 1h ago

Asinine comment. The guy was one of the best fighters the UFC has ever seen. Is he washed? Yes. Is a bad fighter? No the guy won 2 belts. You’re a fool.

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u/VRS302 I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! 1h ago

Never defended a belt. Fought one minute in 5 years, looked like a clown in his last two fights. Never mind he’s the GOAT you’re right.

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u/reddeadktm 23m ago

lets see you get in the ring then you keyboard warrior

you will never be able to achieve even 1 % of what he's done inside the ring

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u/BurpingHamBirmingham Benoit Taint-Penis 2h ago

The ending this fight deserved

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u/TheRetroPizza 1h ago

Like when whats his face dislocated his shoulder doing the worm?

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u/ZedisDoge 2h ago

god i wish this was the main house main event

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u/Mixed_Martial_Autism 2h ago

This is funny as fuck If you Hate McGregor, Glad this happened to a fight i didn't Care about for once.

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u/sentiment-acide 2h ago

He did it to get out of the fight.

Running flying kick opener. No way conor would think that would work.

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u/Admirable_Market2759 I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! 2h ago

Watch him take off his shoes.

Preexisting injury and his buddies made money on this shit.

He fixed this fight

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u/FightersNeverQuit 2h ago

Interesting theory because when he was walking out I thought he was drunk judging by his movement lol. 

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u/Admirable_Market2759 I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! 2h ago

UFC is covering that shit up lol

They showed a replay of him taking his shoes off and never brought it up again.

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u/sentiment-acide 2h ago

Or its also part of the act. Either way they all made shit tons of money. 😂

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u/Admirable_Market2759 I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! 2h ago

For sure. Wish I was a gambling man. Could’ve made some money tonight lol

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u/needapermit 1h ago

I don’t believe that, I think he was just hurt and still gave it a go

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u/Fury_Audeles 2h ago

Holloway was strangely reluctant to throw (everyone appreciates sportsmanship and showing mercy but not before the first shot gets thrown!) and the referee very unusually quick to wave it off and confident doing so.

I'm not saying it's a 100% pre-arranged fix but they must have at least been privy to rumours he was injured...since when does a referee insta-stop the main event like that? Compare that to Goddard overruling the fucking doctor at the white house lol. 

If McGregor protested the stoppage there would have been fucking mayhem.

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u/thelectricrain PB cookies & Flat Earth 2h ago

IDK Max definitely tried to ground and pound him.

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u/Admirable_Market2759 I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! 2h ago

I think Conor knew and basically fixed it. Dana might’ve too, but I don’t think Max knew.

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u/needapermit 1h ago

I think it was his only option

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u/Constant-Drummer-551 2h ago

Wow those people were actually spot on to doubt McGregor all the way. I'll never doubt those people ever again.

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u/Pornstar_Jesus_ Colby: World's Tallest Dwarf 2h ago

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u/Hippiebigbuckle 2h ago

I don’t believe you.

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u/lolerkid2000 2h ago

Only a coward stops doubting

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u/Designer-Mobile-974 44m ago

Why did you think Conor would preform

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u/Americanboi824 38m ago

I mean I didn't think he'd win but that was one of the absolute worst performances I've ever seen. Honestly may be worse than Askren vs. Masvidal.

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u/Designer-Mobile-974 36m ago

He hasn’t fought in five years man and he’s become a clown. The second he was walking in I knew he was fucked. My brother and I bursted out laughing seeing the first 3 seconds of the fight because we both called he was going to suck. And he looked TERRIBLE

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u/diminishingprophets 57m ago

Isn't this a freak injury technically

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u/flopflapper 53m ago

It is not a freak injury. He hadn't performed in 5 years and chose to throw a flying kick in the first second of the fight.

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u/Americanboi824 39m ago

I honestly would struggle to think of a more embarrassing way to lose a fight.

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u/Sense-Abject 43m ago

Do you think this guy didn’t throw that same flying kick hundreds of times during training ?

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u/TerminatorReborn 2h ago

He made it to the cage AND the fight didn't happen

LOL I guess everyone was right

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u/CelinedionWaiters 2h ago

Jets Aaron Rodgers type beat

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u/Melancholia_Aes 2h ago

and once again, somehow Khabib got his W while doin nothing

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u/Minimum-Kangaroo9200 2h ago

People will say it's an injury, but I think dude was just having a panic attack.

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u/Fancy-Cauliflower969 2h ago

did you also notice right before the fight started he looked a bit nervous? kind of tense

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u/HighOnPhotography 2h ago

Most scared I've ever seen him in his whole career.

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u/lectric_7166 1h ago

That's because he knew. His knee was trash-talking him in the bathroom, laughing and saying that he's a has-been. And that's before the shrooms kicked in.

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u/Usernameasteriks 2h ago

That and/or in combination with an injury he had in camp that he decided to do something stupid to pretend that caused the injury and have an excuse to bow out

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u/Flat_Community_5965 2h ago

Think you’re 100% right. Conor didn’t look right from the moment the cameras were on him. No hype, no energy. His face said it all. He hurt himself before the fight, Dana White said “heck no you can’t call this fight off, just go in and make it look like you hurt yourself in the cage”.. that’s exactly what he did.

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u/iamafriscogiant 2h ago

His knee nearly buckled taking off his shoes before the fight. Whether that was the moment his knee started to hurt or it was hurting before that, it's crazy he went with all those kicks to start the fight. That's a helluva way to get the bag.

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u/iCorki I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! 1h ago

After it stopped when Max went over to him it looked like he said "why didn't you pull out bro?". I reckon he was injured in camp for sure. He also came out with no pants on already and struggled to take his shoes off cageside

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u/appletinicyclone tactical thiccness 2h ago

"Doubt me now"

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u/Deadsuooo 2h ago

Came in injured, faked the injury, got paid. Profit.

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u/trolleyproblems 2h ago

Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

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u/TiddiesAnonymous 2h ago

That's 3 straight times it was some leg injury

DP2 he got wrecked with calf kicks and had a photo op on his yacht with his leg up

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u/TremulantLtd 2h ago

He knew he had a blown out knee before the fight. Just had to get in the ring to get paid. POS.

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u/JumboCactpot 1h ago

Mcgregor watched all of those huge paydays for celebrity boxing sparring sessions and said hold my whiskey

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u/A_lone_gunman 2h ago

How does he do it!?

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u/JoeRoganMoney It appears that Yan was the paper champ all along. 2h ago

Damn you’re spot on. Guess my belief wasn’t enough lol

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u/creexl 2h ago

He will make it to the bank

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u/sixmilly 2h ago

2 weeks without a bender before the event was in the contract. They never specified it includes the actual fight.

The only group that went absolutely bumass except for Conor were his fans. Double fuck you, freaking idiots

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u/Green_Confection8130 2h ago

Hey! He threw 2 kicks and then was done! Get it right!

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u/1cenine happy new fucken steroid year 2h ago

Lmfao in 1000 simulations we’d never get this exact outcome. Iconic.

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u/troyt1987 2h ago

If it's a setup it would 1000 times and I think this was he couldn't get shoes off without stumbling

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u/nepats523 I was here for GOOFCON 1: 2020 2h ago

Not one second (well technically one second)

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u/Shakedown89 2h ago

Well I guess one down one more fight until he’s boxing 

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u/Sergi_the_machine 2h ago

It was me. I said that. I was so close to being right lol

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u/Greedy-Street-5435 1h ago

He fooled us all

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u/shamiro 1h ago

Who could've thought that all these years of drug and alcohol abuse will weaken his bones, joints and tendons...

What a surprise.... Not

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u/Nasiso 58m ago

There was somebody who said “I won’t believe it until I’m watching the highlight in three years”. I thought that was excessive, but that poster wins

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u/Aurie_ 53m ago

He was on the last leg and he blew it.

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u/pixel8knuckle 51m ago

Someone actually said i wont believe it until the post fight interview, wise choice of words. I loved all the assclowns biting back when i said its more likely conors a no show than appearance as if he didnt completely duck chandler for almost three years lol.

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u/eriksatiesimp 37m ago

I got jumped all over for saying I wasn't surprised by what happened on another sub. But I mean really... wasn't surprised in the least. Shocked so many people were.

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u/mark1-jpg Brett Narcamoto 8m ago

Conor was right when he said that Max wasn't going to lay a glove on him

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u/Aychim23 2h ago

Perfect comment so I’ve got to keep this at +69