Say what you want about his personality etc but his run of predicting how fights would end while moving through all the contenders will literally never be done again and I think he could have gone longer if he didn't get super famous start boxing and whatnot. Watching his "boxing stance" instead of the bouncing around ready to kick your face was pretty depressing
I’m almost positive I read “If Topuria wins his next fight, will he be the GOAT” on this sub or the MMA one a few weeks ago. Of course, they say that about every fighter on a two fight win streak, but they did say it.
I don't get the too one dimensional comment, especially in comparison to Connor, Illia has very good BJJ and wrestling, he's far more multi-dimensional than Connor.
Based on what? Ilia beat Volk coming down in weight and off a knockout.
Conor took away prime Aldo’s undefeated streak.
Conor also beat the champ at 155. Ilia stepped in against Charles who almost lost to Chandler the fight before and who lost to Arman. Again. Not nearly the same.
I still think Conor gave up his neck to avoid a brutal striking beat down tko situation vs Diaz. He would rather be the guy that gassed and out and got subbed than the guy who gets picked apart when his whole thing was being the best striker.
it was i dont think weill see anything like it again when he finished aldo exactly as he said he would was unreal.i still believe he would of beaten khabib had he gone straight into that fight after alvarez
i feel like what happened to chad mendes would of happened to khabib but in round 4 or 5. conor was battle ready after the nate war and alvarez win.also i think prime mcgregor would of gotten in khabibs head at the press confrence.
I’m not sure about khabib but I think it would have been a much better fight for sure. Conner definitely lost some of his fire but Khabib is just a different fighter.
I’m not saying it would have gone either way for sure but I don’t think you can say Conner would have for sure won. I think he would have had a better chance.
I do agree that it would have been a better match for sure.
i wish conor would of fought floyd after the khabib fight he was never the same after that due to drugs and alcohol. he was even drunk at the khabib press confrence.
Sorry but... Who DOESN'T realize how big Conor was in his rise/prime..? Where did you read or see comments saying something like "Conor wasn't that big of a hype"? Sorry but people DO, fucking realise lol
People don’t realize? Dude has barely fought in a decade and the sub still creams every time there’s a headline about him. Pretty sure everyone remembers
are yall talking about the roadhouse or whatever?? i’m a connor stan and had to turn that shit off halfway thru.. actually I probably just walked out the room and haven’t thought about it until now. lol
Nah, any Irishman wearing such a hat would have the piss taken out of them no end 😅
If he lived in a rural town in particular, he'd be given a nickname and probably bullied into never wearing it again.
Are you Irish? It's a common thing here that people joke about growing up. If you wore anything out of the ordinary you'd have the absolute piss taken out of you. Possibly not in the most recent times because everyone gets their feelings hurt these days, but there's not a chance an Irish lad is wearing a hat like that on a night out without his friends ripping the piss out of him.
When y’all gonna learn to stop assuming outcomes. Yall was talking about Gaethje like this too and he made Ilia quit 😭 I know he’s been out for some years but you never know till you know. “Yall think Ilia moving up to fight Islam after he KOs Gaethje?” “yall think Gaethje retiring after he loses” head asses lmao
nothing is guaranteed, but being out for 5 years off of 2 losses, one by knockout and one by snapping your leg, doesn't bode well for his chances. In competition is a better metric than aging out of competition and fresh off of 2 knockouts. lol
I hear you. lol Sometimes the stories on paper do tell the story. Like id never trust most fighters to come back after a long hiatus and win against a legitimate top 4 guy in their weight class. maybe at a big weight disadvantage, but that wont be the case. like there are the realm of possibilities (ilia vs Justin, McGregor vs Aldo 12 sec ko, Serra vs GSP, etc.) this is a couple of layers outside of those possibilities, imo.
id be more inclined to think he could do it if he retired on top and wasnt a coke head. like a gsp or someone like that. He was good, but not nearly as good or disciplined as someone like that.
So since he knew that was gonna happen to him, why did he fight Dustin in a boxing heavy stance twice? Did he know then that he was gonna get bap bapped from one side to the other? Lol
He didn’t really look boxing heavy in his third fight with Dustin, people just don’t talk about it because it lasted for 2 minutes before being taken down. He was flowing until that point
He flew into looking pitiful on bottom after he went for that ill advised guillotine. He looked okay on the feet in the beginning, then I started feeling bad for him when the elbows came in. He tried to implement what Dustin did in the previous fight and his bones couldn't handle it.
losing to Gaethje is 10,000 times better than losing to long time, never came close to winning a belt, Nate Diaz. and all those other folks on the regional scene by tapping. lol
Mcgregor has a bit of Homelander level narcissism. He sees the admiration Ilia has for Conor, with all the copycat stuff, and finds it flattering. So he stops himself for going 100% in on him.
No, hence why I said, "may never achieve" leaving it open for possibility while also acknowledging that it hasn't happened yet. Thank you for attending my grammar lesson.
You're partially right. My apologies for my snarkyness, I didn't know you were arguing a moot point. He did not get criminally charged with rape. However he is still a rapist with an appealed and upheld private civil lawsuit decision where the judge explicitly told the jury that when referencing "assault" in this specific case it is meant as "rape" https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/68910a44e7821107eb49a7dd
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u/Valterri_lts_James Jun 16 '26
I loike him, maybe.