Aug 15, 2016

Just going off the interviews and behind the scenes stuff I've seen of him. I'm excited for the fight.

 

Aug 15, 2016

He does seem prepared, but stylistically how does he win? With Diaz's pure physicality, his ground game and his ability to box and stick Connor with 1-2s, I think Connor might be f----- here. Does he have a good gameplan to negate Diaz's strengths? Connor will land on him for sure and bust him up again, but sooner or later I feel like Diaz will break him down. Just not a good style for Connor IMO.

 

Aug 15, 2016

Right I get you but just saying your confidence is misguided because stylistically this is a very difficult fight for Conor. The reason Nate has a bunch of losses on his record is because he's fought guys in the past that won't just stand and strike with him. Let alone for 5 rounds (Nate being a cardio machine and all). And that's pretty much Conor's only option here. He rarely uses leg kicks either and they're Nate's kryptonite. Not really sure why he didn't use them in the first fight (I think he threw like one oblique kick tho) but he might just not be comfortable integrating them into his style.

Nate is also gonna be more confident now as he just beat Conor on two weeks notice. The mental advantage isn't as powerful (probably in Nate's favour in fact).

Not saying I know what's gonna happen or anything. I mean Conor is definitely coming into this very focused. He's 100% coming to get that win back and has most likely done everything he could to do so in preparation (like actually training specifically for Nate Diaz). Just not sure it's gonna matter. If Conor wins it'll likely be a knockout in the first or second. But yeah man don't underestimate Diaz lol. I said this the first time round.

 

Aug 15, 2016

I think Nate wins again. He's just bigger and the overall better fighter. Only way Conor wins is by knockout.

 

Aug 15, 2016

Great, great breakdown of the fight by Dan Hardy. Particularly of the BJJ. The breakdowns he's doing are just getting better and better.

Also got to see when Nate knocked out Gray Maynard again in this video. That s--- was some video game s--- lol

 

Aug 15, 2016

Really excited to see Nate not look surprised at all after he f---s up Conor. I actually became a bit of a Conor fan after his loss cause he was very humble. I understand why he carries himself the way he dose and thats the reason why his star has risen so quickly, but i just cant stand some of the antics.

 

Aug 15, 2016

 

Aug 16, 2016

I dont see connor going 5 with nate

 

Aug 16, 2016

Glover seems like a super like-able dude, don't know how he's gonna do against AJ though. Hard to believe that guy used to fight at 170.

 

Aug 16, 2016

Honestly after seeing Conor and his coach on the MMA hour I'm starting to think he might actually do it. I'm at like 63% Diaz and 37% Conor haha. They're pretty adamant that his cardio is much, much better coming into this fight. They've prepared much better in general and he seems very focused. They better pray Diaz doesn't get top control on the ground tho.

Also, just wanna post this classic... This is Conor mimicking how the Aldo fight is gonna go down hours before he went out and did it. Honestly f---ing incredible.

 

Aug 16, 2016

So hyped for this, got an 8th of danks I picked up that I'm not touching till the weekend and then gonna watch this at the bar like I did for 201. This place is pretty cool cuz it's not hard to find a good spot at the bar(although 202 will be slightly tougher, but it's a HUGE place) plus it's easy to walk 10 feet out to my car whenever I want to smoke a bowl real quick lol.

 

Aug 16, 2016

This bar that opened up a few months ago right down the road from my apartment is going to start showing UFC PPVs starting with this one, gonna check it out

 

Aug 16, 2016

Nice, don't have to worry about driving or anything if it's that close. Plus maybe they'll have some specials or something since they just opened up and are probably looking to draw people in.

 

Aug 17, 2016

each one of these gets me more and more hyped

 

Aug 17, 2016

Agreed.

Find it a little weird that they're including Cowboy and not Story in them though.

Just realized the 202 pre fight press conference is today. Can't wait.

 

Aug 17, 2016

@Koolo can this get featured a little nearer Saturday by any chance? Gonna be a very big event and break sales records. The biggest in UFC history. Twitter even made their own hashtags for it haha. Would be cool to get some more people involved in this community.

 

Aug 17, 2016

Sure

 

Aug 17, 2016

Conor McGregor (-130) vs Nate Diaz (+110)

Not really gonna make a prediction for this. Heart says Conor early, head says Nate in the 3rd or 4th (TKO or sub, Conor's choice if he wants to s---t on Nate again). I want to believe in Conor's confidence and maybe he will fight a little smarter, knowing he can't take out Nate like he did all those other guys at FW. But we also have the fact that Nate will have had a full camp.

Conor's KO over Ivan Buchinger at Cage Warriors 51 that got him into the UFC



Infamous Aldo KO



Nate's triangle over Kurt Pellegrino, flexing and flipping the birds..



Nate finishing McGregor the first time



Anthony Johnson (-210) vs Glover Teixeira (+190)

Awesome fight, Glover is a tough MFer with great boxing and BJJ and Rumble hits like an absolute truck. Glover has gotten rocked in fights with Maldonado and Bader, if he gets hit with similar shots from Rumble he'll get KO'd. I like Rumble early and think the longer the fight goes the better off Glover is, for potentially getting him down and submitting him. My pick is Rumble by 1st round KO...


Rumble vs Tommy Speer in 2008



vs Chad Reiner



vs Lil Nog



The Chaos that was Teixeira vs Bader



Glover vs Rashad (get sad every time i see this)



Donald Cerrone (-165) vs Rick Story (+145)

Cerrone has looked awesome since his move to 170 and Story has been a bit unlucky with the judges and injuries. You can make the case that he beat Pyle and Gastelum and could be on a 7-fight win streak. Gotta go with Cowboy by decision, think Story is too tough to be finished.

Cerrone vs Martins



vs Jim Miller



Hyun Gyu Lim (-270) vs Mike Perry (+230)

Don't know a whole lot about about Mike Perry other then all of his 6 wins have come by KO. Ace Lim is one of the biggest WW's on the roster and throws brutal knees. His fight with Saffiedine in Singapore was an absolute classic and i've been a fan of his since he came into the UFC with the back to back knee KO's. Gotta go with Lim early. Perry is a late replacement, not sure what kind of shape he is in.

Lim vs Guimaraes



Lim vs Krauss



Tim Means (-440) vs Sabah Homasi (+350)

Tim Means is one of my favorite WW's to watch, brutal elbows and kicks and has great hands. Homasi is game, but Means is on another level. Pick= Means 1st round KO.

Means vs Howard



vs Dhiego Lima



Retiring Pete Spratt, might have been to the back of the head but w/e.



Cody Garbrandt (-600) vs Takeya Mizugaki (+450)

BW division is all of a sudden one of my favorite divisions. Dillashaw, Assuncao, Dodson, Lineker, Garbrandt, Almeida, J. Rivera, Wineland & Mayday all throw down. Anyways Garbrandt's arrow is pointing up and Miz's down. Mizugaki is a true vet and i've been a fan since his awesome fight with Miguel Torres in the WEC. He has taken a lot of shots though and Garbrandt throws heat. I got Cody in the 1st by KO.

Garbrandt vs Brimage



vs Almeida



Raquel Pennington (-260) vs Elizabeth Phillips (+220)

Meh fight, Raquel usually brings it but she deserved a bigger fight then this. Got her by decision, don't care to go into more details lol.

Pennington chokes Ashlee Evans-Smith out cold with 1 second left in the 1st round



You might remember Phillips from this...and only this



Artem Lobov (-115) vs Chris Avila (+105)

Conor's training partner vs Nate's. Both are in the UFC because of who they train with, although Artem did go through the TUF house. Don't really GAF about this one either or who wins.

Artem vs James Jenkins on TUF



vs Gritz on TUF



Randa Markos (-140) vs Cortney Casey (+120)

Not really a fan of Randa in or out of the cage (horrible personality shined through in TUF) so im hoping Casey takes the W.

Randa submitting Felice Herrig in the TUF house



Casey's GNP elbows against Cristina Stanciu las month in Sioux Falls.



Neil Magny (-140) vs Lorenz Larkin (+120)

Larkin is explosive as f--- and Magny is very durable but i think if Lorenz keeps the fight on the feet he can stop Neil. Taking Larkin by TKO in the 2nd.

Lorenz vs Santiago Ponzinibbio



vs John Howard



Magny vs De Lima



Colby Covington (-345) vs Max Griffiin (+285)

Covington is a grinder and Griffin is making his debut. Don't care but I guess Colby by decision.

Marvin Vettori (-170) vs Alberto Uda (+150)

Vettori is a 22 year old Italian WW. His last 5 fights have come in Venator, in his last fight he submitted UFC vet Igor Araujo and in the fight before that he KO'd long time Cage Warriors vet Jack Mason. Uda is making his WW debut, not sure how he'll look as he was a stick figure at 185. You might remember him from being on the wrong side of Jake Collier's spinning kick's to the body. Up until that point he was winning the fight though. Still gonna take Vettori by KO in the 2nd

 

Aug 17, 2016

Leaning more towards Nate as this gets closer for some reason, really tough call though. Still gonna stick with my Conor prediction but definitely having doubts.

Only thing I'm not looking forward to on Saturday is the weather, its supposed to be 100 degrees out here, can't stand the d--- heat lol. Oh well I'll be in an air conditioned bar for most of it.

 

Aug 17, 2016

I think it's gonna be a war. Both guys are going to be better than the 1st fight. Conor seems to have had an epiphany when it comes to training (thanks to Nate), and Nate will actually have a full camp instead of coming in on 10 days notice.

I'm gonna go with Nate, but won't be surprised with ANY outcome, outside of maybe Conor submitting him.