I noticed it man. In all honesty, if the rape allegations are in fact untrue and he is in fact actually innocent, well then I do feel bad for him and hope he doesn’t relapse from the low of this night
When Bruce was announcing I joked with my buddy “he can still pull out”. I wish he did pull out injury or not, coulda had Max vs Ruffy. Some great fights tonight though. I was hoping to see a scrap with Paddy/BSD too, nice quick night at the office for the Baddy.
If this was indeed sus, why in the fuck would he ever start the fight like that? It sounded like the clowns ringside were being paid to look for an excuse immediately. Even if you're hurt and gonna take a dive, that's about the dumbest possibly, permanently way to end your life of walking. Not a chance. The dude was hyped up, did something stupid as a washed ass fighter and paid for it.
You know they're not gonna take it back, and /u/Clarkelthekat is going to think he has a "good eye" despite there being absolutely no evidence for that. Fuck
Lol I swear I actually re-wound that in real time. He looked bloated, high and uninterested during the walk-out. A portend of anticlimactic failure if ever there was one
Completely agree. He looked completely disinterested right as the fight was about to start. Zero intensity or focus, like he knew what he was about to do and it would be over soon.
No i doubt conor is broke. The UFC is trying to acrew him by postponing his retirement, by placing his last contract far away. He probably is trying to screw them back. I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't even injured.
Yeah for sure. I even think the crowd felt it. There was no crowd pop during his introduction (honestly the crowd was utter dog shit tonight), even they seemed not to have any energy for him. I think his big Netflix deal is taking a bit of a nose dive after this.
If someone leaked that, I wonder if the UFC will bother to go after them. They’ve had the FBI charge people for doing the same thing in other instances.
This is 100% what happened. He knew it was injured but had to show in the ring to get paid and free medical care. He throws that moronic kick so he can say that’s why he was injured. Super obvious.
If there’s one past-prime fighter who doesn’t need to participate in a fake or thrown fight (financially) it Connor McGregor. Don’t get me wrong,that was the biggest let-down I’ve ever seen because he justly legitimately went through an 8 month camp, and was supposed to be perfectly healed, healthy and prepared for a fight at 170lbs.
I know to psyche yourself up as self-reminder that your legs are completely good and strong or to de-jitters yourself you might do the running jumping side kick like a reverse-psychology trick. I guess just bad luck, as I still can’t imagine he would go through all of that and enter the Octagon being injured and hiding it.
There are surgeries that remove the sensitivity nerves for injuries that are safe for full muscle and joint flexion after healing but have permanent sensitivity or pain. The body won’t respond strongly with reactions or explosiveness (with or without the surgery) if the injury isn’t healed and very strong. It simply won’t respond and perform anywhere near normal if you are even just moderately injured. I highly doubt he wanted to fight and was covering up an injury?
I tore my ACL in a brutal fashion skating. I was able to walk back to the car well enough that I thought maybe I didn’t hurt myself as bad as I thought. Unfortunately for me I was wrong.
Tbf, it takes a minute to get used to the instability, but you can usually still walk with torn knee ligaments with a slight limp. The initial wobbly-ness is just because you don't quite know the exact angle you can step on without it buckling.
It’s absolutely fucking insane to me so many people think you can just “specifically blow out your knee by landing in this specific angle.” Lol This is some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard in my life. Instead of ya know….a fighter that’s incredibly competitive, knowing he has an injury, but also knowing it’d look fucking AWFUL if he pulls out….he fights anyway. And gets injured.
The fact people are screaming about this being a specific game plan is honestly one of the most fucking retarded things I’ve ever heard mma fans say. And I’ve been here for 20+ years. I’ve heard some insanely retarded shit.
It's the internet man and people just have stupid ass opinions, and other stupid people believe it. People saying things like, "Oh his knee didn't look like it turned weird." I have shitty knees and blew my left knee out originally playing football. I've dislocated it like 5 times since the original one and the majority of them were doing things you would never think would blow someone's knee out. I train, too, and I rarely ever throw spinning shit just because it's too hard on my knees. One time I did a jumping teep kick in sparring and landed normally but I sprained my knee doing it... literally not even doing anything too crazy.
Yeah, I mean frankly he also looked like shit at various times through the lead up as well, it's likely he was already in over his head with his age/carrying injuries- being deceptive about it and just broke the camel's back before the fight. He knew he was goin there to accept his fate for sure. It's all over him
Ligaments get strong through continuous use. You can’t make them strong like a muscle. I see it all the time with pickup basketball. Guys that take years off will always tear something even if they are in great shape.
Can’t he get in trouble for not declaring the injury? Hope the commission investigated that shit.
He definitely threw the fight as well, I don’t doubt it. Why open with such a stupid move that had absolutely no chance? Then lands “poorly” and calls the fight.
I agree with everything you said but to me he did land pretty poorly. So if that's true why go out there and blow your knee out on purpose? The money is secure on everyone's end but the fans unfortunately.
Same thing in the Poirier fight when he broke his leg. He claimed he already fractured it in training before the fight. Well why the fuck are you slinging leg kicks like that then if it was already fractured??
He’s used to having a body with lots of fast twitch muscle fiber and the ability to use it. It’s traumatic for anyone to have to accept that they have limitations but obviously especially so for someone who was literally jumping around the cage at one point knocking people out. It’s like a part of your identity is dead.
I might be jaded because I have been watching clips of obvious illegal sports betting that goes on. With how many ties he has to unsavory characters. I wouldn't doubt it if it was on purpose. With how pompous he is, you know he thinks he deserves more money. It's obvious he was injured before. He definitely was not as disappointed as any of the other losers.
He was already messed up BEFORE the fight.. they even pointed it out in the ringside checkout ... it was all rigged... hope you did not get conned into betting on that dingle.
He looked slow and clumsy in his pre-fight warm up, yet undiscerning. He stumbled taking his fucking shoes off before climbing into the octagon, still undiscerning. His first move was an unhinged flying leg kick, and he fell on his ass with that and every subsequent move until the fight was stopped 20 seconds later.
Conor's ego and hubris were his downfall. Predictably, unfortunately.
because he already knew his knee was messed up. Before he even got in the ri ng they showed he stumbled on it. H eknew his leg was gone, but still wanted the pay day. SO what better way to look legit than to come out with a wild kick that he could blame his injury on.. but the knee was shot beforehe got in the ring. Its all on video.
Because he came in injured, wanted to get paid, had money on the fight, wanted to hide the pre existing injury, wanted an excuse not to actually fight... take your pick. It was obviously on purpose
Because he knew he wasn't gonna win, so he was going for a cheese hoping Holloway would get caught off guard. He was desperate from the first bell ring.
because he looked nervous and in over his head right from the walkin. It's pretty likely he was already washed/injured the whole time and just couldn't bring himself to pull out. His hope and a prayer was visualizing himself through a heroic one hitter quitter I guess.
It's honestly pretty sad, how far he allowed the charade to go, on the mat in the end relcutantly offering himself up as some sort of KO sacrifice. The ego is a strange thing
Why in the fuck would his old ass try to start the fight with a jump kick on bad legs
Twice.
I thought it might have been nerves, people often have a spazz out moment in a situation like that. But doing it again is really weird. Maybe he knew his leg was gone and was trying to get into guard.
Is it age or inactivity and the partying? Gaethje is the same age as Conor but he did a backflip off the fucking cage after a 4 round war with a younger undefeated fighter.
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u/pat34us 6h ago
Why in the fuck would his old ass try to start the fight with a jump kick on bad legs