I feel like Conor at times get hyped a little more than he deserves. But when you go back and watch that fight he is nothing less than spectacular. He makes a top 5-10 of all time lw look like he had never been in the cage before!
Eddie didnt belong in the cage with him. I was expecting a war. I thought Conor would win but that he would get put on his heels in the first couple rounds. Nope. Total demolition.
Eddie was shook in there, never seen him look so lost against anyone, after that first knockdown he was just mentally defeated. Crazy how terrible Conor made him look, Eddie is an elite fighter and Conor made him look like his little brother.
Eddie definitely looked shook by the magnitude of the event and build up once they got under the lights but can't take anything away from mcgregor cause he dealt with it and performed.
As I watched that fight, I knew Eddie lies his ass off about his height. 5'9" my ass. More like 5'6". Conor practically towered over him and the reach difference was very significant. Dude should be a featherweight if he can get down there.
eddie is not a technician by any means. hes not a high level striker nor a college wrestler.
hes a tough guy with some all around decent skills but gets by on heart and grit, and against other guys with similar skills he can look good and grind out a win but hes never really had some amazing performance other then dog fight wars.
he caught an extremely dehydrated rda with a lucky punch and capitalized off of it by going bezerk while he was dazed until the ref stopped it. he couldnt even get rda down with 600 punches. and i feel like if they fought 9 more times rda would win everyone. so its not like he was a great light weight champion. conor got lucky it was eddie that night, he really does have the luck of the irish or something cuz the cards always fall in his favor. conor is an amazing mma striker cuz he is a master of timing and range which few other mma fighters are so with a average skilled fighter like eddie he was able to look like he had super powers and was the greatest fighter of all time.
i feel like most matchups at lw fall in his favor and that includes tony and khabib but khabib is a specialist that will not go out like eddie. people think eddie is a wrestler but hes not, khabib is a wrestler and will be the first real wrestler besides mendes that conor faces and im sure the world will be excited to see how conor looks. but on the flip, if khabib chooses to stand for a bit with conor he will look like eddie but lucky for him he can switch to his relentless chain wrestling at any moment as long as hes still awake and that is not good for conor.