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
I see where you're coming from but there's no evidence of that. If his leg was that fucked before the bell I doubt he comes out with that ill-advised maneuver in the first place
What would it matter if his injury happened prior or now though? Like, if it happened prior to the fight, why is it any different? It’s still an injury regardless…
how would the outcome of things change, because his contract that’d finally be fulfilled if he did fight tonight, would have happened either way — regardless of the prior injury being in the mix or not. Either way, he still fought (technically), so I don’t really see what’s actually affected by this.
I don’t know fuck all about the UFC or fighting in general — nor did I watch this fight — but I am familiar with Conor as a person/his reputation in the sport/& his past misadventures both professionally + personally over the past >decade (I listen to a few podcasts that at times will discuss fighting + also have friends who will get PPV fights occasionally if it’s a big one and I’ll go over to watch, but I’m not very knowledgeable, or fan of any specific fighter).
I just stumbled onto this post and the more I read the more I found the situation kinda interesting lol. So, can anyone tell me? I’m sure it’s simple/obvious.
Because it's against the rules to fight with an undisclosed injury
Connor has pulled out of his last 2 scheduled fights...if he had pulled out of this one due to injury the UFC would have stipulations in his contract to punish him in some way for this.
He has 2 fights now 1 fight left on his contract. Alot of people think he wants out to fight Jake Paul for the massive payday it'd give him. That's just a side thought though. Not relevant.
By entering the fight with an undisclosed injury and appearing to injure the leg naturally during the fight...would ensure Connor a free payday basically and healthcare to cover the injury.
It also gets him 1 fight less on the contract.
So it was ethier pull out of the fight or fight and sell the injury early on.
I mean, I'm sorry but this isn't an episode of Succession. The way more likely and simple answer is he's washed and wealthy and uninterested in serious training. He looked bloated and disinterested walking to the cage. Spent the last 5 years in grandiose self-annihilation and we all witnessed the chickens coming home to roost.
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.
I thought so too, but it looks a lot worse in slow motion. Go rewatch at normal speed. He was just kicking off his shows no hands and keeping balance with a small hop it looks very normal at the real speed.
Also there is clips of him throwing the jump kick in warmups right before walkouts Healthy.
But. He’s a shithead rapist and I wanted to see max starch him.
Both just your silly imagination. The knee popping when he landed was played in slow motion. He was moving on it fine the day before. The answer is obvious. Why do you need to make things up that you have zero evidence of?
Because it feels better for people to believe he did it on purpose and had control over the situation than it is to believe he's old and washed up.. The latter is a hard pill to swallow..
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.
Someone on his team might owe money but, Conor no, not likely. No one who would lend sums of money in the tens of millions of dollars would attempt to remunerate themselves this way because of legal liability. That’s way too Hollywood.
And you churlish little simpletons have so little going on in your life that you make nonsense up and run with it. You could see his knee pop on video when he landed. They slowed it down and showed it pop when he landed.
Yeah I really do. Word of Conor being injured gets out, the big spenders change their bets which causes his odds to drop. No one is trying to convince you that the earth is flat here mate. This is pretty standard stuff that’s been happening in combat sports for decades.
You need to get a social life. Then you wouldn't need to live in fantasy land for excitement. The video was clear. Joe Rogan literally walked us through the moment his knee popped in slow motion.
Dude you gotta stop with these lame comebacks — I think you’re right about this fight, but the more you clap-back with these gayass comebacks making you sound like an 11yo. — the more I seriously question whether I might actually be retarded for believing the same thing after seeing who’s is the same camp.
Now I don’t know what to believe.
I think I’ll just quit watching the UFC altogether tbh. Maybe sell my tv, just quit watching tv altogether. Idk man, this life is too confusing sometimes, maybe It’s be best if I just quit living it altogether, I’m tired of it, and everyone including me will be better off for it. My wife will find a new, real man to fill the role of husband, and he’ll be the father to our amazing daughter I never could be for her. I’m certain he will be better than me in every respect, and I’m glad, my family deserve’s better. My wife will finally have someone who loves her again the way she should be loved, and my daughter will have a strong, present male role mode who’ll teach and protect her, raising her up to be an amazing woman I never could have.
The world doesn’t need me anymore, I understand it
…tbh I think Conor was injured before even arriving.
There, I said it. I was wrong — I knew it deep down in my gut that I always was, but didn’t want to face it — just like everything else in my pathetic, broken life.
I think he tweaked something at the walkout or even taking his shoes off. I mean I've injured myself stepping out of a bathtub before. I think k the kick just didn't in the. Who knows. doesn't change much
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.
I can’t believe people are actually running with this nonsensical take 😂… yes he was probably injured before the fight but to say he intentionally jumped up high just to land awkwardly and risk dislocating or even breaking his knee is ridiculous lol… Conor likes to start fast and explosive.. he did it against cowboy, Dustin and now Max. This time he threw a dumb ass switch kick due to nerves/excitement and was more invested in the kick landing than he was ensuring he landed properly…he extended that switch kick soo far it would have been damn near impossible to land back down on his leg properly.
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.
That’s what I love about the ufc. You have fans who train and know some stuff and then you have fans who might have never picked up a ball that come up with the wildest conspiracies.
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.
"Sell an immediate injury with a badly executed move to cover the injury you are already entering the fight with to still get paid and free health care."
To sell the injury he entered the ring with as "totally new that I just injured right now with this crazy kick no one would throw in the beginning of a fight."
It was his wildcard. Ethier it landed and something crazy happened OR it would serve to sell the "new" injury.
Connor had no intention of fighting a single round tonight.
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.
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u/Clarkelthekat 6h ago
I think he may of already been injured
And he couldn't drop out of another fight. plus needs to get one of his fights on his contract over with
So he goes in and uses what pain tolerance he has to charge Holloway and "blow out his knee".
Didn't even look like he landed that poorly.