Quote (Shadowoffury @ Mar 16 2015 05:26pm)

lol... Conor hasn't lost in like 4 years. Aldo hasn't lost in 10.

Also, Chad Mendes, Frankie Edgar and KZ were all 100% confident in winning imo, the fact that they aren't as vocal as Conor doesn't mean they were any less confident. Mike Brown def thought he'd walk through Aldo, and I think Urijah was pretty confident. Mark Hominick even. Aldo has never been an Anderson Silva/Fedor-type champion where everyone in the division feels like they aren't even playing the same game as him, so pretty much everyone who has fought him has been pretty confident imo.

Aldo is a great grappler himself also, which is why he's been able to dominate all those wrestlers. And when he's not getting his way on the feet he goes in and brings his opponent down. Guy is a blackbelt in both BJJ and Luta Livre, which most people fail to take into account... His grappling is on another level compared to Mcgregor and everyone mcgregor has faced so far. The only way that's not going to play a part in this fight is if it ends in the first round.

Quote (d3yek @ Mar 16 2015 05:00pm)

in my opinion. in which ever way this fight goes im saying it now it will not go to the ground. both men have too much pride in standing up and knocking each other out to even think of a take down. aldo wont shoot and id be less surprised if conor does but yeah

stand up war. ko or UD for someone. it wont be close

Quote (Shadowoffury @ Mar 16 2015 01:26pm)

lol... Conor hasn't lost in like 4 years. Aldo hasn't lost in 10.

Also, Chad Mendes, Frankie Edgar and KZ were all 100% confident in winning imo, the fact that they aren't as vocal as Conor doesn't mean they were any less confident. Mike Brown def thought he'd walk through Aldo, and I think Urijah was pretty confident. Mark Hominick even. Aldo has never been an Anderson Silva/Fedor-type champion where everyone in the division feels like they aren't even playing the same game as him, so pretty much everyone who has fought him has been pretty confident imo.

Aldo is a great grappler himself also, which is why he's been able to dominate all those wrestlers. And when he's not getting his way on the feet he goes in and brings his opponent down. Guy is a blackbelt in both BJJ and Luta Livre, which most people fail to take into account... His grappling is on another level compared to Mcgregor and everyone mcgregor has faced so far. The only way that's not going to play a part in this fight is if it ends in the first round.

Quote (MVPx @ Mar 16 2015 09:35pm)

the only person you mentioned that i think thought he could really win is frankie.

mike brown and urijah rofl, they had no shot and deep in their heart they knew it.

its not going to play a part in the fight because conors gonna control the distance and hes much longer... hes what 2" taller and 4" reach advantage i think? idk why everyone just thinks getting mcgregor to the ground and holding him down is so easy. no ones been able to do it yet.

i hate how everyone says "aldo is a blackbelt in bjj!" ya thats great, he hasnt submitted anyone in a decade. he doesnt use it. idk how people think hes just magically going to turn it on and be demian maia. it's going to be a standing fight, maybe some clinch work.. but to assume that 60% of this fight will be on the ground is lolable.

Quote (MVPx @ Mar 16 2015 09:35pm)

the only person you mentioned that i think thought he could really win is frankie.

mike brown and urijah rofl, they had no shot and deep in their heart they knew it.

its not going to play a part in the fight because conors gonna control the distance and hes much longer... hes what 2" taller and 4" reach advantage i think? idk why everyone just thinks getting mcgregor to the ground and holding him down is so easy. no ones been able to do it yet.

i hate how everyone says "aldo is a blackbelt in bjj!" ya thats great, he hasnt submitted anyone in a decade. he doesnt use it. idk how people think hes just magically going to turn it on and be demian maia. it's going to be a standing fight, maybe some clinch work.. but to assume that 60% of this fight will be on the ground is lolable.

Quote (Shadowoffury @ Mar 17 2015 05:47am)

No one's been able to do it... except the two guys who submitted him, you mean, right?

Lol aldo hasn't submitted anyone in a long time because he's been fighting wrestlers tho, his goal has been to stay on the feet in basically every fight he's been in for the last 10 years... He isn't one-dimensional, he doesnt have to out-grapple grapplers, but that doesn't mean his 2 black belts in grappling arts under some of the greatest teachers in the world are useless :blink: did you even watch the mark hominick fight?

I didn't say that 60% of the fight would be on the ground btw, but to assume that a guy with 2 black belts in grappling won't use those skills against a guy who has only ever lost by submission--if the fight isn't going his way on the feet--is ' lolable' imo. And submission isn't the only way to use bjj to your advantage... He has used it a lot in other ways, obviously.

It's not magically turning it on either, the guy still trains bjj and luta livre all the time, just because you haven't seen him submit anyone in ten years doesn't mean he hasn't done it, guy has prob executed thousands of submissions on better grapplers than conor in that time...

Quote (MVPx @ Mar 18 2015 03:04pm)

to even compare hominick to mcgregor is a joke.

the fight isnt going to the ground, period. conor controls distance too well and aldo is a fighter that grinds on people like RDA did to Pettis for example, he just cant do that. His cardio is questionable at best and he's going to want to keep the fight where he's most comfortable, the feet.

aldo is gonna fight like barao vs dillashaw..... granted, dillashaws a wrestler, but barao didnt even try to take it to the ground because thats not what he does, even tho hes a blackbelt.

fighters dont turn from fighting on their feet 95% of the time, to all the sudden in the biggest fight of their career completely changing what has gotten them to the top. he is not going to take conor down.

dont be bitter cause theres a new king.

Quote (lxxgatmanxxl @ Mar 18 2015 05:06pm)

he will take conor down and he will do it with relative ease, i don't tink. i know

e/ thanks in advance for the fg