Nate Diaz submits Conor McGregor

[mralstoner]

LOL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQC1zLkoknI

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

I have never seen someone handle defeat as good as Connor. Jose Aldo didn't even show up to his post press conference. Props to Connor,not bad for someone that's just in his 20s.

[mralstoner]

"Holly is always working on her wrestling and jiu-jitsu ... A scarier version of Holly is coming real soon ..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXXFE5nVR8o
It will be interesting to see how much her grappling can grow.

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

I wish I could give a shit about Ronda.
The first fight in that Connor Diaz main event was two chicks. Damn, I've never seen two women fight so good, it was even impressive than some of the men's division fights that followed. Ronda don't fight like that, she isn't even no longer in the best pound for pound women's list any more, plus she handled her last defeat like a baby.

[mralstoner]

Rumours of a rematch in UFC 200....

Meanwhile, in case you were wondering if Nate still has a brain capable of being rattled, here is the only (?) time he has been knocked out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-fKQrWpcW0

A rematch will be fun to watch, but still hard for Conor to overcome Nate's reach advantage and land good shots capable of rattling Nate. Nate will be favourite this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6AF1c4ZXg8

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

A rematch would make no sense. Mc Gregor will surely get his ass wooped seeing how the last fight went.

The only way I see Mc Gregor winning is him throwing head kicks like wonder boy Thompson to compensate for his reach disadvantage.

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

And what about the Cormier vs Jon Jones fight?

Drama, drama, drama.

[mralstoner]

A rematch would make no sense. Mc Gregor will surely get his ass wooped seeing how the last fight went.

The only way I see Mc Gregor winning is him throwing head kicks like wonder boy Thomson to compensate for his reach disadvantage.

At first I thought the same, a rematch will just go the same way. But Conor is no fool, and likely will come in with a better strategy. Nate is a one-trick pony and will fight the same way every time.

I don't think Conor has the energy to throw all those kicks like Thomson. And if you're not quick enough with those kicks, Nate can shoot for a takedown. But he probably could try the same feet movement as Thomson i.e. keep moving, and not stay stationary, and keep out of Nate's straight-line hitting zone, and jump in for attacks, and jump out again. Like to Holly did to Ronda, although Holly had the reach advantage in that case.

Conor has the quicker hands. So if he can get in with a flurry, and get the hell out, and keep moving in between attacks, and keep doing that all night, he has a better chance.

But I still reckon Conor will eventually get tired and again become a sitting duck in Nate's hitting zone. Conor is a sprinter, he has to learn to pace himself against bigger and tougher opponents.

I hope they repeat the fight, the first one was a ding-dong battle.

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

I totally agree that Connor is a sprinter.
The only way I see him winning a rematch is throwing more head kicks, jumping in to attack at the right time and not firing punches like a maniac.
His mantra should be to conserve his energy. Diaz is a triathloner.
He should focus more of his kicks, that's the main point,to overcome his reach disadvantage.
Connor shouldn't attack. He should make Diaz come to him. That way Diaz will be throwing the majority of the punches tiring himself out.


BTW I figured out why Diaz survived Connors attack avalanche. Just look at his head movement when getting hit in the head, he moves his head in the direction of the force of Connors punches. This way the effect of Connors cross are minimized. Connor on the other hand, cocky as he is doesn't do it, actually he moves his head against the direction of punch of Diaz's punches, that being the reason why he got bobbled with that punch of Diaz.

[mralstoner]

Conor's coach is saying some sensible things (although I believe he didn't want Conor to do the rematch):

http://www.the42.ie/john-kavanagh-column...=shortlink

When we got back to the changing room after the fight, a rematch with Diaz was already being discussed. A defence of Conor’s featherweight belt was also mentioned, but as the hours drifted by, the frustration of not doing himself justice began to take hold and grate.

Conor chased this rematch. That’s how it has come about. He’s much more concerned about trying to give a perfect representation of his ability than he is about material things like belts or money. That’s just a fact. Money is certainly not a motivating factor anymore because he has already made plenty of it.

Conor believes that the last fight didn’t accurately reflect the skills and ability he possesses, so he’s eager to address that. He ended up harassing UFC president Dana White and CEO Lorenzo Fertitta on a daily basis for a rematch. This is the fight that’s of most interest to him right now.

I doubt that any non-biased observer could look at the first round of that 5 March bout at the MGM Grand and not score it in Conor’s favour. For me, we saw the technical difference between the two fighters in that opening frame. The difference in the second round was down to cardio, and a cardio issue is much easier to rectify than a skill one.

Going into that second round, the gameplan was straightforward: repeat what had happened in the first round… for five rounds, if necessary. However, that’s not how it ultimately played out.

Conor’s cardio wasn’t as it should have been, but there was certainly no complacency. We didn’t train any differently for the fight. I believe it was more a case of there being a strategy error i.e. trying to stop a bigger man who’s known for having a strong chin with every single punch.

When you’re landing punches on any opponent, it gets tiring. There’s no two ways about that. With a strategy adjustment, the fight is going to play out in a similar manner to that first round, but this time it will continue throughout the contest. I do believe Conor is the more skilful fighter and the first round was evidence of that. But we cannot make the same mistake by trying to remove his head with every single punch.

It was a fight that was set up on short notice and it didn’t go our way, but there are certainly no regrets about going ahead with it when turning it down would have been very understandable. The entire process has been a tremendous learning experience.

If Conor had gone through his entire career without pitting his skillset against that type of opponent, there would have been no window for learning. The Jose Aldo fight in December was iconic, it was beautiful to watch and all that, but we didn’t really take away a whole lot from it.

With this one, I feel we’ve yielded months of lesson plans. It has really reignited the fire in both Conor and myself. We’re excited about training for it and we’ve made some good plans which involve some adjustments, including spending a little bit more time out in Las Vegas. We’ll make some minor changes to the training to get used to that particular opponent and we won’t be overly-reliant on Conor’s left hand to secure the result.

That was Conor’s 22nd professional fight but I probably learned more about him from it than I had in his entire career to date. We had no excuses whatsoever for the loss. Second best on the night, simple as that. It’s gone. Learn from it and move on to the next one.

Cardio easier to fix than a skill problem? We'll see. It will be interesting.