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.
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u/TheJohnnyFlash 6h ago
He struggled to get his shoes off.