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Post by trashcanman on Feb 26, 2016 21:50:44 GMT 2
 For those who don't follow combat sports, this is "The Notorious" Conor McGregor, Ireland's pride and joy, UFC champion, and certifiable looney toon. It's not often that a mixed martial artist is more entertaining outside of the cage than in it, and it's even more impressive when you're arguably the most exciting fighter in the world. Sizzle reel incoming:         Those last two are "McGOAT" first taking the belt physically from the (former) greatest pound-for-pound fighter in the world in a pre-fight press conference, and then obliterating him in THIRTEEN seconds in the cage. The Mortal Kombat effects are earned. Anyways, this dude has literally taken over the UFC. He's all anybody talks about. Ronda Rousey had to tell the world she was thinking about killing herself to try and get some attention. It barely worked. The MMA world is now all Conor all the time. As soon as he effortlessly took the Featherweight belt from an all-time great, he challenged the Lightweight champion. The LW champ just busted his foot, so he decided to bypass LW altogether and fight noted imbecile Nate Diaz at Welterweight in ten days' time. That is to say this motherfucker went up TWO FULL WEIGHTCLASSES to fight just for the fuck of it. Nobody does that. Ever. The press conference was a circus and included his opponent going full Kanye and blankly staring at the cameras and declaring "everyone in the UFC is on steroids" out of nowhere before the two engaged in a ridiculous exchange of profanity that included McGregor responding to Diaz's nationalistic bullshit by declaring that he "runs the West Coast....and the East Coast" and calling him a "cholo gangsta" who rides bikes with the elderly while throwing gang signs with one hand and making balloon animals with the other. Not even sure what that means. Good time to be alive. Oh, and he just got this tweet:  Yeah, because people in Ireland have no concept of senseless violence. I think things have officially gotten out of control. Obviously, the guy is a hero in his homeland. If nothing else, he inspired this rather tasteless billboard for a flooring company:  So is McGregor as much of an unstoppable media force in the UK at large as he is in America? He's already conquered us, but I wonder how much of a star he is back in Europe where the UFC isn't as prominent. |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Mar 2, 2016 13:16:15 GMT 2
I'd say he's more internet famous than anything. Like, I know his face but I wasn't sure of his name. Those gifs and pictures do the rounds online, and I'm sure he's known in sports circles, but he's not, like, I dunno, David Beckham where he's crossed over from what he's famous for to become known outside it. Hell of a character, though. He started a Twitter "fight" a few months back with WWE wrestler and fellow countryman Sheamus.  And it was as predictable and depressing as you'd imagine. www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/Sheamus-and-Conor-McGregor-square-off-in-bitter-Twitter-battle.htmlYeahhhh. So he does seem like a bit of a prick, but that's seemingly standard practise these days for this sort of thing. I'd rather a guy like Conor than some vanilla bore, put it that way. Speaking of UFC, what are the chances that CM Punk ever debuts.. like, ever? |
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Post by trashcanman on Mar 3, 2016 10:08:52 GMT 2
Does the upcoming video game count? Supposedly, they are bringing up some semi-scrubs to fight and whoever wins gets Punk just so they can say he fought a guy with a winning record. Good luck to him. Personally, I doubt we'll see it. he's just too old to just be getting started at this, much less compete at the highest level.
But yeah, McGregor is a perfect beast for this sport. Insane trash talk worthy of the WWE and not even capable of giving a single fuck. He talks down guys' families and lack of heritage and just never stops. Dude does not have an off switch. Even Mayweather is jealous and complaining that people only like him because he's white. No, dick, we like him because he's entertaining as fuck. He talks shit cleverly like he doesn't give a fuck and he fights the same way. He's kind of an immature douche at times, but the fact is he always brings it and is fun as hell to watch. Mayweather is a bitter shithead without an ounce of wit who fights like he's afraid to break a nail.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Mar 3, 2016 21:52:32 GMT 2
Like him only because he's white? Man, fuck Mayweather. What a clown.
I've seen clips and gifs of McGregor in action and he's on a whole other level right now. Flawless victory, right enough. I don't follow this sport at all; is he undefeated?
I honestly hope Punk doesn't fight, and admits it's too late in the day for this sort of thing. Either stay at home, count your money and bang your hot young wife or come back to WWE, where the fans still chant your name every week, and be a hero again. You see this fucking machine in this thread? You really want THAT standing across from you?
Speaking of Mayweather, did you ever see the 50 Cent video aimed at him?
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Post by trashcanman on Mar 4, 2016 23:30:48 GMT 2
Nope. I thought those two were practically butt buddies. Then again, you can't have two dudes that aggressively ignorant and arrogant around each other for too long. What happened?
McGregor lost to a couple submissions really early in his career, but that's normal for a striker who hadn't built up a lot of experience yet. He's undefeated in the UFC. He almost lost once, but even while taking a beating the dude kept on talking shit. Blood was flying out of his mouth and everything. Just a total badass. There was this moment at the start of the 2nd round where he just looked at the other dude across the cage with his face all bloody and this psychotic smile and made this "come get some" gesture that I wish I could find a gif of. At the weigh in with Diaz yesterday, he actually punched the other guy's fist. Punched him. In the fist. Who does that?
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Mar 5, 2016 17:23:26 GMT 2
You know, since this thread I've been seeing this guy everywhere. Trend setting Trashcanman. I just watched a video where he and another guy were being interviewed by a woman about their upcoming match. He started talking about how much money he had and he laughed at the other guys fee. If this was wrestling he would just be playing the asshole, but as this is real life he sounded like a total prick. An entertaining prick, granted, but I'd still love to see him get his head knocked off. Speaking of pricks, yeah the 50 Cent/Mayweather "beef" lasted a couple of weeks and resulted in this compilation of pretty funny videos. youtu.be/iD8Q0lvJZvIIt didn't go anywhere from there and Mayweather for once kept silent. "What he say fuck meeee for?" Has become a bit of a catchphrase in the Curmudgeon household. |
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Post by trashcanman on Mar 6, 2016 0:03:06 GMT 2
My opinion of Fiddy just hit a major spike.
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Post by trashcanman on Mar 6, 2016 10:29:44 GMT 2
Welp, McGregor just ate some shit tonight. Turns out you can't just fight 30 pounds heavier than usual at the drop of a hat and expect to maintain your cardio. Diaz employed the Homer Simpson technique of getting the shit beat out of him for a round and some change until Conor ran out of energy and then he popped him hard and somehow got him to take him down. Now, if you've ever watched a Nate Diaz fight, you know his classic win is eating everything his opponent has, then kicking their ass until they take him down and then submit them. I literally cannot believe this dude fell into that trap. Still, being the first guy in the UFC to even attempt to go up two weight classes just for shits and giggles earns him much props from me. Maybe now he'll be a little more humble and start acting like a champion.
A lot of guys pop into the UFC, start murdering everyone with crazy ass skills, and look unbeatable until somebody takes their best shot, tires them out some, wrecks their shit, and they quit and are never seen as that great. But the difference here is that McGregor already had that fight and he persevered and won it where so many don't. I'm pretty sure that back down closer to his normal weight, he's still going to have a hell of a run.
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Post by trashcanman on Mar 10, 2016 20:36:00 GMT 2
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Mar 11, 2016 2:41:15 GMT 2
I'd heard it was a decent fight but I didn't know it was guys falling 20 feet through the floor good. Wish I'd caught that one.
I think that's my main problem with actual legit fighting. In wrestling you get a three hour PPV and you know you're going to be there for three hours, good or bad. Boxing and UFC in particular, because it's, well, real, you're lucky if you get three rounds now. I was going to watch this fight but it meant staying up till 6am. In the end I was too tired so I was going to watch it the next day (until Mrs C's first words that morning were when she's flicking through her phone on Facebook and says "wow, I can't believe McGregor got beat." So much for that. But it was only two rounds! What is that, two minutes? Just hype and hype and expectation and hype and then it's over in seconds. It's like losing your virginity all over again.
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Post by trashcanman on Mar 11, 2016 20:27:31 GMT 2
You have no idea how insane the UFC message boards are right now. There are no other topics being discussed. None. It's all McGregor got beat all the time. Rounds are 5 minutes each, but it's not really like boxing where you are literally paying for one fight. You get some half a dozen main card fights, which are routinely more exciting than the main event. Earlier in the night Ronda Rousey's nemesis scored a massive underdog victory with a final round submission to beat the girl who took Ronda out and finally won the UFC women's belt, setting up a third match with Rousey and coaxing her out of almost-retirement, which is the sort of thing that the WWE might script. It just got overshadowed.
Worst case scenario isn't a quick and exciting end, though (although that can be horribly disappointing, a la McGregor/Aldo). The worst is when all of the fights go to a decision and the fighters are boring as fuck, doing stuff like pushing each other up against the fence for minutes on end or taking each other down and just laying there to score points instead of you know, fighting. I've literally fallen asleep before.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Mar 15, 2016 2:06:51 GMT 2
Boxing can have that problem as well. 12 rounds of guys pretty much just holding onto one another can be such a fucking chore.
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Post by trashcanman on Mar 15, 2016 6:09:04 GMT 2
That's a big part of MMA's success. The vast majority of fights are 3 five minute rounds so at least if it sucks, its over in 15 minutes. Plus, it's a lot easier to finish people because you can submit them and if you knock someone down you can finish them instead of having to wait for a slooooooow 10 count. Tends to make things more action packed.
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