Aldo just tweeted

See ya at #UFC200, @TheNotoriousMMA. Your fairy tale is over. You got nowhere to run now. Time to a rematch, pussy

Well, it just shows you have to respect the other weight class no matter who you are.

We might more understand why no super fight ever came up between gsp/silva or silva/jones.
They know the domination in their weight class might not follow up in other division.

But i knew anyway conor would never pass RDA, vs Diaz i thought he had a chance tho, has long he stayed off the mat ( remember Mendes when connor was on the ground...).

Back to 145 and dominate, no big deal.
All the great did lost 1 fight anyway (except jones but vs cormier it might)

Conor saying he is gonna go back to 145, said his power didn't translate as much at 170 and he had to be more efficient with shots.

GSP DID NOT call it but he seemed thinking Diaz had a shot at conor !
at 1m55 and further in the interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvNFGBWj95I

There are people who post here who are more in tune with MMA than me. Do people still think McGregor will get another shot at lightweight? I mean he can talk about him not using his energy as efficiently as Diaz and hitting glove etc but the facts are that Diaz came in with no camp, took punches that win fights for McGregor at featherweight and took him down pretty easily and submitted him. Can McGregor ever get strong enough to fight at lightweight and fight people who come into the fight after a full camp?

imo just means if Conor want another shot at the lightweight for the belt, he will need to prove he deserve it by winning couple of fights, like anybody.

ps: the only way he could happen otherwise imo is if a rematch would happen and conor would destroy nate, tho i am not sure people would pay for a rematch before conor beat up frankie and aldo again.

Btw i think it was a success, conor probably bring couple of new viewers to a UFC event, they saw a great fight even tho he lost.
Maybe some of the new viewers got hooked, so it is good for the sport.

connor prob fights aldo or frankie at 200, then whichever of those two he didn't fight after that, and if he beats those two he can fight the 155 champ like a year from now

STOCKTON 209 MOTHER ****ER. I WAS TOLD BY AN EDF MOD TO COME HERE TO SAY THAT EVEN THOUGH MY PHONE NUMBER BEGINS IN 209

fwiw i thought the line was pretty good here and that conor would have won relatively easily if he hadn't gotten so aggro. watching the first round all i could thikn of was that conor was leading more than counter striking and that he was throwing everything at 98%. i had never seen that from him before (though obviously a lot of his fights ended pretty early). the talent disparity was relatively clear to me but it certainly wasn't so stark that you can't get caught if you act a fool. if conor plans for a 5 rounder better and shows a little more patience he probably gets a W.

anyway, **** that guy, but comments in defeat were excellent.

He fought Nate with no camp and 9 days notice. He wasn't acting a fool, he met someone who can take his left. You are mistaking pretty for talent IMO. He got out boxed and has nothing at all on the ground. There is no way to defend him as a more talented mixed martial artist.

Yeah but can he hang for 5 rounds at LW? I keep thinking what if he'd fought dos Anjos or a full camped up Diaz. Diaz practically went from lazing about to fighting McGregor. Precision's not gonna help you that much when every punch you take is a potential KO. Diaz rocked him(well semi rocked him) with a jab for god's sake. McGregor's power punches are standard punches for LW and it showed considering Diaz's face looked worse than McGregors and he never really looked in trouble KO wise. I guess there were potential flash KO's from CM(didn't happen though) but Diaz never really looked unsteady on his feet.

Both Diaz bros seem to cut really easily.

Probably had ****ty cornermen early in their careers. Also probably got into tons of fights as kids.

Lol instatapping from a choke

What a dumb game plan too.

This is amazing

Lol Dublin

Back on the dole

So I guess this fight can be summed up as "good big > good little"?

What are the best analytical sports odds blogs that share good value picks?

Conor could've won if he wasn't trying to KO a granite chin to prove a point.

aldo is such a ****ing buffoon

How? He's dead to rights if it goes to the ground and on the feet Nate was going to wear him down and then open him up. He may or may not have KO'ed Conor, but it seems like Nate was the favorite there.

Agree with the common wisdom. Conor fought a great first round, and those lefts and uppercuts he landed would have severely damaged or stopped basically every fighter at 145. He's used to those lefts ending the fight. Instead he got a guy from a heavier division, who didn't have to cut weight, and is notorious for taking lots of punishment.

When you jump weight classes, especially at the lower weights, your power might not translate. That's really the key to what we saw tonight. Conor landed blows that are fight winners at 145, but not at 170ish. And when Nate wobbled him, Conor did a decent job of surviving on the feet but couldn't survive on the ground.

How much did Nate weigh in at? Seems like nonsense to me that someone who weighs 170 while not cutting is that much harder to knock out than someone who weighs in at 145 while cutting 20 pounds.

Nate just has a really strong chin and it was a really dumb gameplan to go so hard for the first round finish. I highly doubt it has anything to do with what they each weighed.

169 I believe.

Nate talks about weight not being an issue:

Another point too i think.
The hits ( even jab like we saw) coming from heavier guy does more damage as well.
If you are not used to it, gl for taking it...

Nate was 169, Conor 168.

There is a thought going around that the brain doesn't properly rehydrate in the 24 hours from weigh-in to fight, idea being that if guys didn't cut (like these two didn't) they could withstand more punishment.

So for this fight, little of column A, little of column B.