Can Conor McGregor beat Nate Diaz and Save UFC 202?
Aug 18, 2016 Comments
(Sponsored Content) -- You can resort to a trusted sportsbook to
lay some money on the main event at UFC
202, but can UFC have trust in to save the company (speaking
strictly in creative terms; after being sold for about a gazillion
dollars, the company hardly needs any saving)? However, can Conor
save us from ever-changing cards? Can he save us from Brock
Lesnar’s feet of clay? Can he save us from Mark Hunt’s
whining? But more importantly, can he save face and defeat Nate Diaz?
Not only did McGregor lose his first fight (as a UFC fighter; he had previously lost to Artemij Sitenkov at Cage of Truth 3 in 2008, and to Joseph Duffy at Cage Warriors 39: The Uprising in 2010), to Diaz at UFC 196 on March 5th, 2016, but he lost a lot of his mystique as well. Why? Pretty much because Diaz only had eight days to prepare for McGregor. To be fair, though, McGregor had as much time to prepare for Diaz – though at least he knew he was going to fight on that date (so he deserves props for not pulling out). In this day and age of UFC Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping, it’s becoming a wise move to put your money on the underdog at your trusted sportsbook, so preparation – or lack thereof – may or may not have play as important a role as one might think.
Notwithstanding that, McGregor’s procedure in the lead-up to the rematch seems to have been a result of an abundance of caution. By his own admission, he has spent some $300,000 on his training camp – including Nate Diaz (not literal) clones so as to make 100% sure beyond the shadow of a doubt that he will not be caught with his guard down again. Other than that, the Irishman wants everything to be exactly as it was on that fateful evening; down to fighting at the same weight that neither is used to.
McGregor even expects Diaz to pull a Homer Simpson like last time (his analogy, not mine). In other words, Diaz will just stand there absorbing punishment until McGregor gets too tired to fight back – which is where the full training camp will come in handy; Conor is confident that this time he will have the stamina to dance with Diaz the entire five-minute five rounds. Make no mistake, though; he still believes he will finish Diaz in the second – which may not be smartest thing to say; as Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás once said, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And Conor can’t afford to lose again; perhaps UFC itself cannot afford it either (not to mention fans who will bet on McGregor at their trusted sportsbook).
Not only did McGregor lose his first fight (as a UFC fighter; he had previously lost to Artemij Sitenkov at Cage of Truth 3 in 2008, and to Joseph Duffy at Cage Warriors 39: The Uprising in 2010), to Diaz at UFC 196 on March 5th, 2016, but he lost a lot of his mystique as well. Why? Pretty much because Diaz only had eight days to prepare for McGregor. To be fair, though, McGregor had as much time to prepare for Diaz – though at least he knew he was going to fight on that date (so he deserves props for not pulling out). In this day and age of UFC Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping, it’s becoming a wise move to put your money on the underdog at your trusted sportsbook, so preparation – or lack thereof – may or may not have play as important a role as one might think.
Notwithstanding that, McGregor’s procedure in the lead-up to the rematch seems to have been a result of an abundance of caution. By his own admission, he has spent some $300,000 on his training camp – including Nate Diaz (not literal) clones so as to make 100% sure beyond the shadow of a doubt that he will not be caught with his guard down again. Other than that, the Irishman wants everything to be exactly as it was on that fateful evening; down to fighting at the same weight that neither is used to.
McGregor even expects Diaz to pull a Homer Simpson like last time (his analogy, not mine). In other words, Diaz will just stand there absorbing punishment until McGregor gets too tired to fight back – which is where the full training camp will come in handy; Conor is confident that this time he will have the stamina to dance with Diaz the entire five-minute five rounds. Make no mistake, though; he still believes he will finish Diaz in the second – which may not be smartest thing to say; as Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás once said, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And Conor can’t afford to lose again; perhaps UFC itself cannot afford it either (not to mention fans who will bet on McGregor at their trusted sportsbook).
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