However, the final part of the Mayweather plan is one McGregor will need to adhere to if his juggernaut is to keep rolling.
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BJJ icon Eddie Bravo makes his predictions for UFC 194’s main event between Conor McGregor and Jose Aldo. Originally scheduled for July, the bout was cancelled less than two weeks prior after Aldo cited a rib injury and at the time, there were conflicting reports about the extent of the Feather weight champion’s injury.
The Province’s E. Spencer Kyte and Danny Austin of the Calgary Sun are in Las Vegas for this week’s festivities. Aldo though, may have heard that a few times along the way throughout his career.
MMAWeekly.com will have UFC 194: Aldo vs. McGregor Full Results and Live Fight Analytics during Saturday’s event, beginning with the first bout at 6:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. PT.
That’s the kind of rhetoric we’ve come accustomed to when listening to Conor McGregor speak about his upcoming opponent Jose Aldo.
“Got delayed at JFK because every time the flight attendant tried to read out the safety procedures on board the aircraft this drunk Irish fella kept singing Ole Ole Ole & Oggy oggy oggy”, passenger Damien Coyne wrote on Facebook. Conor once said “if one of us goes to war, we all go to war” and that is certainly how it feels in Ireland right now. Just out of experience alone, I’m going to side with Souza. When I look in from the outside at other competitors, I don’t see the comfort. It’s been overshadowed by the Aldo-McGregor fight, and while that’s understandable, it’s also likely this will be the most competitive middleweight title fight in years. “I think people want to see the stand-up punching”.
Less than a month after the baddest woman on the planet, Ronda Rousey, relinquished her bantamweight belt with a shock defeat to Holly Holm at UFC 193 in Melbourne, McGregor has forecast another champion will fall. This is still a guy who can excitedly cruise against top competition. The last time he did so was against Chad Mendes, and he didn’t just beat Mendes, he survived a wrestling barrage and beat the dude at his own game.
“I grew a big beard, he grew a big beard”. Aldo has brilliant muay thai skills, the best takedown defence percentage in the UFC at 91 per cent and an allegedly brilliant ground game, although he hasn’t scored a submission victory in 10 years. That’s Aldo. Keeping it simple while McGregor made calm dance, rather than the puffed out chest and bristling energy of previous fights. McGregor via third round TKO.
However those questions are answered will determine the outcome.
While doing his utmost to grab the UFC’s attention, he constantly fought the best guys around instead of following the lead of other fighters by padding his record.
Las Vegas has also seen McGregor get upstaged in the cage. Here are the three main reasons. If immortality isn’t what you’re selling with McGregor – he’s already lost – is he still valuable from a promotional standpoint? It seemed freaky, it may well have repercussions for the fight, but who knows? His trash talk, unlike so many MMA fighters before him, doesn’t feel as forced.
Jose Aldo will look to retain his featherweight title on Saturday night.
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“Then we eventually get going, about 25 mins into a 5 and a half hour flight, these other two Irish lads start kicking off at each other”.
