Conor McGregor förlorade under UFC 196 sin första match i organisationen, då han ströps ut av Nate Diaz i andra ronden. Många har undrat hur detta kommer påverka Conors status, och en som inte tror förlusten skadar särskilt mycket är Chael Sonnen.
Detta hade Sonnen att säga, via ”MMAFighting”:
Guys don’t take all that big of a hit. You have a little downtime then you get back on a media tour, create some interest, and you move forward from there. That’s just boxing and MMA. Mike Tyson lost to Buster Douglas in the biggest upset in history and went on to have the biggest box office success that sport’s ever seen.
The bottom line is, this is a business. You have to know what you’re doing and guys simply don’t. They get bad advice or they don’t get any advice at all. I watch these mistakes being made left and right and it’s just not true. Will Conor take a hit? Yeah, sure. Conor is an A+ right now if you want to put this in school terms. He’s an A+. He might fall to an A, he might fall to an A-, but he’s still going to be an A. He will be an A-level star and an A-level draw and it’s going to do big numbers.
Everybody’s got a window, but Conor is most definitely still within his window and he took on a task that was pretty insurmountable. It’s never been attempted before, let alone done successfully … and he went out there, he fought well, he sold well, he worked his ass off, and he came in second. So what?
I’ve had private conversations with Conor where he said stuff and I’ve walked away from the conversation thinking, there’s a guy who gets it. There’s a young man who’s years ahead of his time and understands what this is all about. So I don’t think Conor is going to fall off the deep end. Now, I don’t like his spending habits, but he’s a grown man and can do what he wants.
Härnäst kommer vi att få se McGregor gå match vid UFC 200, och det ryktas om att han kommer möta Nate i ett returmöte.
