Aug 21, 2016

I had the time of my life enjoying that fight. Amazing fight, no matter who the winner was..


That being said, how do you feel? Were the judges right? Was Conor the winner? Personally, I probably would have given Nate the W, but it was an amazing, and EXTREMELY close fight after the 5 rounds ended. How did you score it? Nate or Conor?

 

Aug 21, 2016

All in all, in retrospect, from a marketing standpoint, 1-1 is a much better outcome and conor v nate 3 is an amazing matchup, and I can't wait to see round 3, and really I don't see anything wrong with conor winning, I just think nate barely edged him out in the latter part of the fight, and I think the 5th round takedown clinched it

 

Aug 21, 2016

 

Aug 21, 2016

Nate winner, but who wants to make a trilogy off 2-0? More b--- for your buck when it's 1-1. I don't really care to see a third one to be honest. Fight was ok, Conor got tired early and instead of Nate being Nate and finishing him and doing combos he one punched it and went on cruise control. 1 mill first fight then 2 mill this one? Yeah I'd cruise control for that 4 mill 3rd fight to.

 

Aug 21, 2016

thats all good, and i 100% feel like giving conor the W is justified, it was a seriously close fight. I just wanted to know different posters personal thoughts on how they scored it from home.

 

Aug 21, 2016

to be fair, i honestly expected a draw.

 

Aug 21, 2016

for selfish reasons im glad it was 1-1 and im looking forward SO MUCH to round 3 but really if im being honest with myself and how its scored i'd put it as 2-2 and 1 being contendable, and personally i'd edge the contestable round to nate. so f---ing close though, there's really no wrong answers.

 

Aug 21, 2016

Yeah I thought it was gonna be a draw as well tbh

It was such a close and great fight I would've been ok with the result either way

 

Aug 21, 2016

i'm glad i didn't put money on nate though


when holly v ronda was happening, I was going to bet $200 on Holly when I saw the bets favored ronda, but talked myself out of it. I would have won (profit) over 1k if I made that bet. I had the same gut feeling when I saw conor was the favorite tonight, and if I had checked the odds yesterday I probably would have put over a thousand on nate. So glad that I didn't check the odds until the card started, at that point i figured it was too late and I didn't want to go through the fuckery that I usually have to go through when betting on UFC.

 

Aug 21, 2016

I think Nates face lost the most.

 

Aug 21, 2016

Conor dropped him 3 times in the first 2 rounds. I don't know how anyone could have had it tied going into the 3rd. I gave it Conor 1, 2 and 4 with round 1 being very close to a 10-8 round.

 

Aug 21, 2016

Conor dominated the first round. Round two was close, but him dropping Nate twice in that round earned him the W that round. Nate dominated Conor in the third, more so than Conor did in the first, but neither was enough for a 10-8 IMO. Fourth round was very close, but I have slight edge in Conor's favor, and final round Nate took, but Conor's takedown defense and survival tactics were nice, and he was landing so many big shots. It was a brilliant fight, and though I don't truly care for Nate to be Conor's "rival" (only happened because he lost the first fight), I would enjoy a third meeting. Great card overall though, for sure

 

Aug 21, 2016

I had it going
1: CM
2: ND
3: ND
4: CM
5: ND

But then thinking it over, Conor beat the f--- out of him for 3:30 minutes of the 2nd round but Diaz finished it out strong so I forgot about Conor's dominance the in the beginning.

Could have gone either way and I wouldn't be mad

 

Aug 21, 2016

Watched it back and yes he edged it

 

Aug 21, 2016

I think it'd be hard to argue Nate winning the 1st, 2nd or 4th round. Like others have said too, the 1st round was close to being a 10-8 round.