[Crean]

7 pages of posts on a boxing forum and nobody has pointed out the nuances of the fact that a fighter cannot simply utilise a regular boxing stance in an MMA fight, hence why the striking doesn't appease boxing fans. They haven't worked out why the guy can't simply stand in the pocket with his hands up and throw a combination.

 

[Crean]

Cuz they all suck and boxing stances are super hard?

Apparently that's what some people would have you believe.

 

[Crean]

The top dogs right now are the ones who came from a single discipline, Conor and Joanna. It's been a trend, at least the gyms I've walked into is that they spend the 2 hours in the gym doing everything but not excelling at it

McGrgeor never came from a single discipline. Not in any different way to every other MMA fighter anyway.

Very few MMA fighters actually came from a pure MMA background. They didn't walk into an MMA gym at 12 years old or whatever. The vast majority anyway.

 

[Crean]

The vast majority of fighters I've met came into the sport in the 20s late teens

So what is your point?

Are you saying the top dogs came from a single discipline or are you saying the vast majority came from single disciplines?

 

[Crean]

Conor barely had any boxing experience, particularly from a competition point of view.

He entered a boxing gym at age 12 and had quit by 15. He was not an underage star, he didn't enter any competition of note. He was not on the radar at irish underage level by a long shot.

 

[Crean]

Kind of a shame. the more he gets into it better his hands look. that left looks like it's from hell as well

Yeah, maybe it is a shame. His coach at the time, a well known boxing coach from a great boxing family in Ireland said that at the time McGregor had a ridiculous appetite for work for such a young guy. He was disappointed when he told him he couldn't come down to the gym as regularly cos he was doing the MMA stuff. He thinks with the drive and work ethic he would of probably eventually made olympic level, but hard to tell seeing as though he walked out at 15.

 

[Crean]

Anyway, just thought I should point it out that mcgregor doesn't really come from a boxing background. Many pundits and commentators who should know better just splurge out that he came from a hardcore boxing background and that he was an accomplished boxer at some point. But, he simply wasn't. Not to say he couldn't be, but he left before that had the chance to happen.