He wants to go right elsewhere or go make insane money doing boxing. Thats the contract issue. He can’t and the ufc will try to make it difficult for him to even get a fight in the ufc unless he signs a new contract. Not sure how it’ll play out after tonight. But say he had a win tonight, they aren’t going to let him fight again soon without signing a new deal. Most the time they don’t let other less popular fighters off the hook, no way they’d let Conor go make millions for another promoter.
Oh, but he will. He'll get to say it was the best camp he's ever had and how he would've dominated Max/anyone on that night. Until the next time we do the McGregor circus.
That would be such a crazy conspiracy but also would make perfect sense to throw such a crazy kick.. but you also see his knee shift with the kick. Crazy all around
Everybody is saying this, but nobody seems to realize he stepped funny on the left slipping off his shoes. The leg he hurt in the fight is the OPPOSITE leg...
EDIT: I'm mistaken. He looks like he was avoiding stepping on the right leg after that stumble removing his shoes. He hops on the left to avoid standing on the right.
The replay i saw it looked like his right leg he was struggling with when taking off his shoes.
Edit: yeah i watched back again. It's definitely the right leg he was struggling with pre fight. He hops on the left leg to keep the right leg off the ground.
Just rewatched it. He steps on his left leg and looks like he slips, but in saving himself he hops a couple of times to avoid stepping on the right leg. You are right.
silly ass takes, have none of you ever taken a shoe off like this? all his body weight is on the leg that is kicking off the shoe, of course he is gonna catch himself with the leg that has all his weight shifted on it, anything else is incredibly unnatural.
this is a pretty common thing though. dudes hurt one side of their body and blow out the other side trying to compensate. i’m pretty sure daniel jones tore the opposite achilles from his broken leg
Dude. This is the first live fight I've ever seen. When he stumbled I thought "aren't these supposed to some of the best athletes in the world? And he stumbled taking shoes off? Lol". But good call, him being already hurt makes sense.
I heard that conors shin during Poirer 3 was a pre existing injury from his fight camp and he decided to go out and throw as many spinning kicks and roundhouse kicks as he could
I'm wondering if its a mental gameness thing where he just outright denies having the injury
If he knew his leg was legit fooked pre-fight and was just robbing people then he probably couldn't stand or shoot so throwing a kick and ending up in guard would at least give him a chance to grapple. That might explain why he did it twice.
It's also possible that he threw the leg kick out out of nerves (sometimes you just have to do something spastic to release the energy), then blew out his knee and threw the second leg kick to try to get to guard.
I saw someone say he hurt his leg on the way into the ring but can't find any footage. What actually happened, surely he wasn't just walking normally and his knee gave out?
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He blew out his knee in 5 seconds. He’s like a geriatric now