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Kick is actually a risky move as you can block it (unprotected) with your stronger body. I remember blocking a kick with my elbow and the dude screaming in pain, but it didn't break his ankle, of course. Considering how powerful Conor's kick was, I'm not really surprised.

Blocking with knee also can do damage to the opponent, but it may hurt you as well (knee injury sucks). It's just a mixture of Conor's stupidity, his bad luck, and Poirier's good luck. He will retire and fight the likes of Logan/Jake Paul.

I don't know if it's already been posted, but Crypto.com has signed a (what I think is a very large) advertising deal with the UFC.

Is there so much money involved in this combat sport that it is profitable for Crypto.com? The UFC several such large sponsorship deals?

https://www.mmafighting.com/2021/7/7/22566630/crypto-com-to-sponsor-ufc-fight-kits-in-reported-175-million-deal



But the shirt looks very nice 

He is blessed to earn that big amount, but remember everyone has their standing way of living, McGregor's standard way of living might be expensive and if he doesn't know how to handle his money, he might end up bankrupt and worst will become homeless. I've read a lot of stories about a player who made multimillion deals but indeed up with nothing, and I believe it could happen to anyone if we are not financially literate.

People retire with the age of 60 without $20M. Its definitely worth the fight fod Mcgregor. its said he had done a lot for the sport.
He wouldn't be the same fighter anymore after this.  

I wouldn't expect him to fight again. He wouldn't want to see himself end up like the old athletes who retirs with so much loss.

I guess that's what he wanted to portray in the ring, and it's very effective as he become one of the most bankable MMA fighter in recent generations. So he doesn't concern him about his reputations, it's all ego for him.

And with what we have seen on Conor, I guess every trainer now will have to sort out their regimen for their fighter on how to strengthen their shin. Just like what boxers try to with their abs to make it stronger for body punch. I saw Manny Pacquiao doing like bamboo sticks training.

I agree but I don't think that not every fighter is going to agree with doing that training because I am pretty sure it will be a grueling months for them. Plus the conditioning should be multi purpose because you condition it just to strengthen it or harden it then what's the point. By the way, has anyone seen Poirier donning a t-shirt with Crypto.com in it?

Hall is an open book to most of the modern MMA fighters. He will still be able to beat people, sure, but those have to be outside the top 10 imho. The fighting game caught up with his fighting style and he really didn't evolve to compensate. Not really room for him to go anywhere in the UFC at the moment...other organizations, maybe...

This.  I said the same thing too in the past...  There’s a method to make your shin harder and ready to do all out hard leg kicks.  Basically what they do is to cause micro fractures to happen to the bone and letting them heal to make them like they’re ‘calloused’.  So there’s a thin layer of bone on top of the bone.

How many leg breaks have we seen in a span of one year?  Three?  Gyms should train their fighters for calf kicks not aim for the knee like McGregor did.  Those are easy to check.

I am sure Poirier will get some extra money from the pay-per-view buys but that still seems like a really low purse for a fight of this magnitude. If you compare this to boxing, Canelo's opponents are getting close to $10 million.

Even if McGregor recovers quickly I don't see things going much better for him. In each loss he's had recently he's gotten his ass kicked badly and that will really diminish a fighter.

During the interview just after Dustin declared as the winner, he said Conor is a dirtbag, he meant a lot because he knows the attitude of Conor. If you'll ask me, I think Conor deserves that loss because Dustin is a great fighter, and just like what Khabib to him, he punished those who disrespect him.

Conor is the most disrespectful fighter I know, maybe even outside the sports as there are a lot of reports where he is involved in something that destroys his reputation.

haha yes really karma says it's not over yet mcgregor yes we shouldn't underestimate he is a really good fighter, he continues training from where he left off after he gets better. He got too excited, I think it was weird for me that he had such a ridiculous injury. But I don't think he will catch dustin after that, at least 1 tko against dustin.

Ryan Hall VS Ilia Topuria

I think Ryan Hall is an open book for Topuria, the fight was way easy for him and Ilia Topuria didn't need to use all of his tools for Hall, But I haven't really seen this coming that the wizard Ryan Hall has become a redundant fighter, always doing the Imanari Roll but Ilia Topuria is seeing all of the things he might do, Don't get me wrong I am on Ryan Hall at first when I have seen that he is going back to UFC because I would like to see another leg lock and how the wizard is doing it without fail, but after researching Ilia Topuria and looking on Topuria's previous matches I have seen that Topuria have plenty of things technically that Ryan Hall doesn't have, that is why Ilia Topuria have fight patiently and wisely against Hall.

Gilbert Burns VS Stephen Thompson

I also Bet that Wonderboy could win this and I thought that his takedown defense is pretty good against Burns but Gilbert Burns just pinning down Thompson so much ruining his momentum that is how Gilbert Burns has won the judges decisions.

If Conor McGregor can understand the fact that the 155 pound division is not his and willing to move down to 145 pound division where he actually dominated and Dana White has another excuse to say to hype up his next fight that he broke his leg if not he would have won  .

The next thing Conor McGregor needs to do is either challenge Nate Diaz and if that fails he needs to retire.

It was a great prediction by Conor McGregor, his mystic Mac prediction still works but this time the opposite happened 

McGregor predicted that Poirier will go out in a stretcher but it's the other way around, the fight could have been excited if not for that accident, I thought Poirier will submit on McGregor neck choke but he is really goods at jiujitsu that he easily escape it, I don't see a fourth fight here Poirier wins the trilogy, he really matured and he turns to be a great fighter after that first McGregor fight, I also agree that he will have a better paycheck next time than the one he got from this fight.

And someone is very happy that Conor lost:

$50k bet and win $35k.



https://twitter.com/ESPNRingside/status/1414117002516393985

I don't think that Conor's career will be over, for sure he will come back and probably get an easy fight first. But he is already on the downside of his career, might be just fighting for the money because he is still the cash cow win or lose.

Well, that wasn't a great night for me as a fan with Ryan Hall getting knocked out, Wonderboy being pretty much dominated, and Conor breaking his ankle. I'll still support the three on their next fights, and I'm hoping that Ryan Hall can get a lot more fights than he has been, I don't agree with the narrative that fighters are scared to fight him though, he is pretty one dimensional, although very good at what he does.

Wonderboy didn't do overly bad, but once it hit the mat Burns pretty much dominated. I didn't like the back of the head strikes towards the end of the third round, and I feel that could have potentially been a point deducted as there were a lot of heavy, heavy shots to the bank of the head.

Conor was doing okay up until he wasn't. I felt like he was dominating the stand up, and it really did look like he came to hurt Poirer this time around. Poirer taking it to the ground was wise, and while he was on top, he was getting lit up himself on the ground, so I thought it was fairly even. Poirer took some big elbows, and also gave some big elbows. Okay, he did win the round, but they had both taken damage up to this point, and Conor wasn't out of it. The last exchange, before fighters missed fractionally, and either of them landed there, and it could have been goodnight either way, its just unfortunate that Conor snapped his ankle.

I get the animosity towards Conor, but if I wasn't a fan of him, which I do love his fighting style, and I can't just ignore he probably is one of the most exciting fighters to enter the UFC, I'd at least want to see him get convincingly beaten by Poirer via a knockout or a submission. Its just a shame it happened that way, I saw a few comments that Poirier was close to knocking him out at the end of the round, but for those that didn't watch the replay, they both missed their shots in that exchange, the only reason Conor went down, and stayed down was due to his ankle.

Both were in it up until that point, and I felt like we had a war coming. I can't write Conor off, that fight was competitive, and it could have gone either way. It looked like a few times that Poirier got hurt while on top due to the elbows, and Conor was narrowly escaping those big elbows coming down on him, well at least partially.

Tired today though, man its always annoying staying up all night, getting all excited, and feeling those pre fight nerves, and it ends like that.

As long as there are still people who want to watch his fight and as long as he can still fight, then will surely come back. It doesn't matter if he wins or loses a fight, he would still make big money after all. The injury he suffered was caused by him, so probably it's not that serious but it needs to be operated.

For now, we have proven that Dustin Poirier is the greater fighter as he won the trilogy, and for sure he will be more popular and will get good fights, with that, his value will increase, and will receive a good paycheck next time.

Well, it seems that is it for Conor. I mean, at least when it comes to being a champ ever again. Don't know if he0s even eyeing that spot or not, but if he is content on fighting somewhere around the top 10, then by all means, but anything besides that, nope. What did him in was probably the combination of things, he was somewhat inactive from 2016 - 2021 (4 fights) and his style got figured out. Nothing wrong with that, the game evolves. I still liked how he incorporated kicks and yes, it was a freak accident, but it's hard to believe the result would be any different hadn't it happen. Still enjoyed every fight he has been in and I think he gave the sport a boost in popularity in otherwise wouldn't have, seeing 99% of the roster has the personality of a coffee mug.

As for being inactive and getting figured out, well, Ryan Hall, welcome to 2021. You had your chance but kept mainly inactive enough to let the world catch up to leg locks and your style of fighting. We can all thank the Danaher Death Squad for that.

Might be true. McGregor is one of the UFC's top five most-viewed PPV fights so it makes sense that he will receive more and the gap is really large. And I agree with some analysts that without McGregor, Poirier wouldn’t even be making 1m a fight.

Anyways, no official source about how much exactly they made. Maybe in the following days, related information about it will be released.

I just go with the flow on who I think is going to win but, good job in going on with the bonus and just giving my side on what I think with what may happen and who's going to win,

the Maia Fight was pretty tough they keep on exchanging blows and that cut that Jessica Eye looks really bad, and it really looks like an eye, but apart from that fight I never expect Kunitskaya to lose.

Conor McGregor VS Dustin Poirier

My take on this fight, I really think that Conor McGregor does well in throwing that kicks but still, it is not enough Poirier is able to pressure McGregor so heavily that Conor had needed a breather from their fight, and from that takedown of Dustin, Conor had a hold on to Dustin Gloves and Poirier had talked to the ref. but Herb Dean had a controversial call there and allow Conor to cheat so that injury of McGregor might be a karma kick in, Although I have bet on Poirier I think the fight could go on a different route if wasn't for that injury still not a good way to win but that is what happens and feel sorry for McGregor yes he deserve losing to Poirier but not like this.