Any idea how much Connor made off that fight?

I heard before fight his net worth was like 2 million.

2 million figure would be just pure speculation. Might as well make up a number yourself and you would be just as credible. Nobody would have a ballpark figure besides CM and the people who write the checks.

lol. You honestly think that was the best cowboy in the Nate Diaz match?
Aldo clearly won at least the first 3 rounds versus Edgar and "the greatest fighter in UFC history"?

Swag - there's no way to know. The UFC reports official 'show' money, and Conor officially made 500K plus 50K for a 'performance of the night' bonus. But nobody reports hard or official numbers on PPV percentages, which is where the stars make the real money. We do have rough ideas - a couple times a UFC contract has been leaked.

If we guesstimate 1M PPV buys and Conor getting $4 per PPV, that's $4M based on PPV cut. That falls in line with GSP (a former top draw for the UFC) telling the media once he made about 4-5 million per fight.

How much was the PPV in $ - i.e. to purchase it?

60 bucks

Jaysus that's spicey!!

I think the previous guesses on Conor's earnings are pretty low. He wanted to bet Dana 3 mill that he'd KO Mendes in 2 rounds or less, fwiw.

"Greatest in UFC history", yes. Who would he be competing with? The others are Anderson Silva, John Jones, and GSP. GSP turned into a boring dry humper by the end of his career, with limited striking. Anderson didn't even have the business sense to learn English and his opponents were garbage.
That only leaves John Jones.

John benefits by being in a weight class where the greatest athletes are playing another sport. Other than that I really can't knock him that much. He's pretty sick.

But how sick is Conor really? No one in the featherweight division was able to stand with him at all. He comes forward. He K's people the F out. Conor walked through the featherweight division as if he were doing the kindergarten KO challenge, all the while predicting the outcome of every fight and talking more trash than anyone in the history of sports.

He KO'd the former P4P best in 13 seconds. Aldo was only 29 years old.

Things might get tough once he moves up, but with only two others winning belts at multiple weights in UFC history, the accomplishment would put him in rarefied air.

So yea, imo, a second round or less KO over a pretty solid dry humper in Dos Anjos (who beat a pretty solid striker in Pettis) at a weight he doesn't need to fight at would be quite a feat, worthy of GOAT praise.

I highly doubt that RDA wins another match for the rest of his career, now that he can't roid himself to godmode

so anderson isn't the greatest fighter... because he didn't learn english?

ok? lol

also huge lol at 'his opponents were garbage'. What revisionist bull****. why do people talk about things they have no idea about?

Conor has the chance to be one of the better fighters in UFC history, but he's not even close right now.

We got to see GSP/Anderson/etc go through their rise, their peak, and their fall. Conor looks new and shiny because we've only seen his rise/peak so far, but the fall will come eventually. Could begin next fight or could be years from now. That's when you can judge his place in history.

Until he gets a few more fights under his belt, it's pointless to compare him to the greats yet. Anderson won 12 title fights in a row, while moving up to 205 and beating a former champion there. He was the undisputed #1 in his weightclass for 7 straight years. GSP won 12 title fights and was on top for ~6 years. Jon Jones has 9 title fight wins and has never been beaten except by the sport's rules. and so on for many other fighters.

Longevity matters. You can only be judged based on what you've done so far. If conor were to retire today and never fight again, he's not even top 10 all time for UFC fighters in terms of accomplishments.

If Conor beat Frankie+RDA I would be very comfortable with him being involved in the conversation for GOAT.

definintely

its not like silva won the LHW title during his reign or that jones beat werdum and cain, etc.



McGregor might NEED to stay at LW and defend many times for that to happen though, just cause of the harder competition and FW is kind of light on talent.

Him beating Frankie and Pettis at 145 would be pretty
Dope as well.

oooh hadnt thought about pettis at 145

unrelated ramble but is the fight 'probations' a new-ish concept? because i don't recall in the past that fighters were mandatorily being removed from active status so frequently and for so long after events

as for Conor, I personally think he should at least fight in a contenders match before getting the 155 shot. Its kind of a kick in the nuts to others nearing the top of a stronger division than the one Conor's leaving.

But should he conquer the first few + title shot/win, absolutely in the convo for best ever. Even if not for longevity, the resume of his victims sure puts a gold stamp on his own. To potentially own two division belts simultaneously at very competitive weight classes is ultra impressive

Not new, but also not a huge issue. MMAmania.com puts this disclaimer under medical suspension reports:

Here's one from UFC 84 7.5 years ago.

http://www.mmamania.com/2008/05/30/u...s-and-injuries

Yeah, if they really want to dodge the grapplers they can do a title fight vs cowboy assuming he wins or a 145 title fight vs Pettis.

The Pettis fight seems like a stretch but he's easily the biggest name of Conor's possible opponents.

I'd like to see him fight Cruz at 145.

Your post make sense, although if Conor beat the reigning LW champ its much more deserving than Silva beating a washed up Bonnar who then lost to Tito Ortiz... And this is right after walking through Aldo who is probably gonna keep crushing souls at 145 himself.

He's not there yet, but he could achieve legendary status really fast.

Herbavorus_Rex said it better than me.

Yeah, I think Conor's ceiling is basically unlimited. He could be the GOAT. Let's just wait for him to actually get there imo.

Obviously if he takes the 155 title, that's a huuuuuuuuuuge deal. Only BJ Penn and Randy Couture have done multiple division titles, and neither had particularly long/dominant reigns as champion with no losses, and neither did it while holding both. Couture was always win/lose/win/win/lose pattern for his career (to be fair, he was fighting legends in almost every fight). Penn had a decent LW run, but was obsessed with losing to top WWs and couldn't keep himself mentally motivated to dominate at LW like he should have. Conor could pass those two.

I also still think Jon Jones could come back, retake the LHW title, and move up to HW and potentially take that title. That's within the realm of possibility - HW isn't very impressive at all right now and is dominated by LOL_OLDS. That puts JJ in the GOAT discussion as well, since he's already the GOAT LHW.

Conor is running extremely good as you might say in poker.

Mendes gassed after grapple****ing him for 2 rounds and Aldo ran straight into a left that knocked him unconscious.

I want to see him fight Edgar at FW before moving to LW but do you guys see him knocking out monsters like Tony Ferguson? Ferguson took Barboza's best KICKS in the head i think he'll deal with Conor's left.

Watch Conor warming up in preparation for exactly what Aldo was going to do.

He soul read him and executed.

I want the Frankie fight first before Frankie gets too old.

Maybe he actually had spies in his camp