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Originally Posted by WaKtickets
Anyone else not crazy about idea of a Mcgregor- Diaz 3? Much rather see him fight Lee/ Ferguson / Khabib
I agree, I understand that he wants to 'win' the rivalry, for now he redeemed himself by making it 1-1 but Diaz still has the finish and Conor has a close dec so I can get why he wants to do it. Still, i'd rather see him fight the contenders. I'm fine with it if it's for the belt so long as he's defending a minimum of twice a year and ideally 3+ times, if he fights Diaz first he needs to fight the Ferguson/Lee winner by mid 2018 at least and ideally Khabib after that.
If he's fought Diaz, Ferg/Lee winner and Khabib by the end of 2018 i'll be pretty happy. If I could only see two fights it would be Ferguson (or Lee if he steals his spot) and Khabib though. If Conor just does what he did in the 2nd fight but drills cardio and TDD all camp and now has slightly better boxing as a result of training for Floyd he should just win pretty easily against Diaz.
I'd bet Conor pretty confidently against Ferguson as I think he can wreck him standing, Khabib's the most interesting clash of styles (although the fight probably won't be that good as I expect Conor will either KO him quickly or Khabib will take him down, beat him up and submit him on the ground if he can land takedowns at will)
Apparently rumours of the Diaz 3 fight at 219 aren't true but I mean it's not like you can trust anything Dana White says, so we'll have to just wait and see. If Ferguson was smart he'll talk a lot of **** about Conor running from him and being a ***** and so on if he beats Lee next weekend.
TAM with Ludwig was totally different to TAM without Ludwig, a lot of their fighters (most notably TJ and Mendes but others too) improved their striking drastically under him. Even Castillo went on a decent run when he was his striking coach. After leaving, the entire team has stagnated basically and nobody seems to be improving anymore. If I wanted to train to be an MMA fighter i'd snap train at Elevation over TAM. In fact i'd train at virtually any of the top camps over TAM.
Last edited by SwoopAE; 09-26-2017 at 06:01 AM.