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FTY said:
Honestly don't believe the fight will ever happen, (at FW), think Mendes is a harder fight for McGregor than Aldo, purely because of their styles. Out of interest why do you think CM would win?

Being ahead of by at least 4 points is getting destroyed IMO, he took Silva apart until the triangle.

Yeah ik what happened in the second fight.
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Anderson second round tko, edgy first round but took him apart in the second, knee against the cage was brutal.

I explained my reasoning why I think McGregor would beat Aldo, I think it would be a stand up fight and McGregor has the better stand up, this coming from a big Aldo fan.

I agree that Mendes is a much tougher fight style wise.
 
Phenom said:
Anderson second round tko, edgy first round but took him apart in the second, knee against the cage was brutal.

I explained my reasoning why I think McGregor would beat Aldo, I think it would be a stand up fight and McGregor has the better stand up, this coming from a big Aldo fan.

I agree that Mendes is a much tougher fight style wise.
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Sorry mate typing messed up, tried saying I know what happened in the second.

If it goes as you say and McGregor is winning on the feet, could you see Aldo trying to wrestle him like he did vs Hominick? Think he would, not sure he's at the level to close the distance with wrestling though.
 
FTY said:
Sorry mate typing messed up, tried saying I know what happened in the second.

If it goes as you say and McGregor is winning on the feet, could you see Aldo trying to wrestle him like he did vs Hominick? Think he would, not sure he's at the level to close the distance with wrestling though.
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Yeh I think Aldo will defo try and take Conor down and if he did then he's a legit black belt on the mat but again Conor fights really long so as you say it would be difficult closing the distance.
 
FTY said:
Sonnen destroyed the greatest ever for 4 1/2 rounds, McGregor won't get close to doing that to Aldo (or Mendes).


Think McGregor vs Aldo will actually be a lightweight bout now, both of them have horrific weight cuts anyway without a ban on IVs that's coming in.
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You have to remember though that Silva was only trying to sub Sonnen throughout that whole fight. Chael had been badmouthing the Noguera’s BJJ prior to the bout to hype it up, and Silva took exception to that and vowed to submit him. That’s why the fight looked like it did, and luckily for him Chael has never had the best ground and pound either.


McGregor fights at length and holds a size advantage over Mendes so I’m not sure it’ll be as easy for Mendes to take him down. Mendes is good at mixing up the TDs though, so it’s certainly a very interesting fight.


Did you see Aldo’s tweet about saying he hopes Mendes beats the ‘joker’? The more he opens his mouth the more he looks scared to fight McGregor. Dana White reckons he’s missed out on a $4m pay day by pulling out of this fight. Knowing full well no one wants to see Aldo-Mendes III, why would he want Mendes to win? Just stay quiet, or say you want to silence McGregor when healthy. For someone who complains about money so often, you’d think he’d have made more of an effort to ensure he made it to the fight. Even if that just meant wearing protection or making sure his sparing partners didn’t over step the mark.


With controversies over PED testing and the like, it does raise questions, especially considering he’s pulled out of quite a few fights in the past as well. I’ve always enjoyed watching Aldo fight but he’s hardly the pin up for sportsmanship. Was it the Korean Zombie who hurt his shoulder and Aldo kept hitting him there?


I hope McGregor beats down Mendes on Saturday and then Aldo has no choice but to face him and McGregor puts on a striking clinic. Unite the belts, fight Edgar and then move up to LW.
 
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Just read this here

http://forums.sherdog.com/forums/f2...-3025193/showpost.php?p=107164307&postcount=1

This lad has put some good work in to pull this together. A timeline of Aldo's PED test. Everyone loves a good conspiracy but this does look a bit odd.

Mike Tyson mentions in his book how easy it is to give a fake test, he used a whizzer, but with masking agents etc. these days, it can't be that hard. There was a show on once about athletes how they'd go missing for 6 months, fill their voicemail etc. so that no one could contact them and hit the juice hard and train, then benefit from the training while clean for the next 6 months competing.

I don't know if Aldo has done anything or not, but this adds to the conspiracy stories surrounding his pull outs.

Here is information about the drug test and related fight information in a condensed form. If you have any other information and sources please provide it.

June 10
10:00 am - The drug tester arrives in Brazil by plane
01:29 pm - The drug tester attempts to contact Aldo's team to collect the sample
01:51 pm - Aldo's head coach, Andre Pederneiras, returned drug testers call, say he will attempt to locate Aldo
04:00 pm - Efforts by Aldo's coach were unsuccessful, drug tester and Pederneiras arranged for the test to be done the following day at 10:30 a.m. at Aldo's training facility.

June 11
10:30 am - Aldo arrives at his training center and meets drug tester. The process to get a urine sample starts
11:15 am - After 45 minutes of trying, Aldo has finished the urine sample. Before the drug tester can process the sample one of Aldo's trainers stops the process as the head coach was not there to witness it.
11:30 am - Pederneiras arrives at the training center, an hour after he told the drug tester to arrive, and says "I should have been here for the test" even though he is an hour late. He calls CABMMA to see if they are aware of the test.
11:31 am - As the drug tester attempts to argue his right to take the collected sample an off duty police officer who happens to be listening approaches the drug tester and asks for his passport. The off duty police officer immediately confiscates the drug testers passport. He then tells the drug tester his Visa is invalid.
11:45 am - CABMMA representative Christiano Sampaio arrived at the training facility and halts the test, claiming the test was not being conducted in accordance to Brazilian MMA procedures
12:00 pm - "Drug Free Sport", the agency the drug tester works for contacts a brazilian doping control officer to perform the test.
01:00 pm - The brazilian doping officer arrives but CABMMA representative Christiano Sampaio refuses him to test, stating that only a CABMMA collection officer would be allowed to collect the sample. At the same time Aldo's urine sample is destroyed as Aldo and the drug tester had lost contact with it.
06:00 pm - A second test was scheduled with Aldo to take place at the gym on June 12, conducted by a CABMMA doping officer and monitored by the American drug tester. The test was scheduled to take place between 8:30-9 a.m.
06:30 pm - Brazilian immigration officials arrived at the gym to review drug testers paperwork. Drug tester was fined and given eight days to leave the country, but he was approved to monitor the collection process of Aldo's sample the following day.

June 12
08:30 am - Drug tester arrives at Aldo's training center to find Aldo is not present.
11:40 am - Aldo finally arrives at training center 3 hours and 10 minutes late, he says he missed his drug test because he was trying to get a Visa.
11:49 am - Aldo finishes a urine sample, but while passing it to the CABMMA official he spills it and destroys the sample
12:29 pm - After an hour Aldo can provide another urine sample, this one he safely passes to the CABMMA official. It has now been 47 hours since a request for Aldo to give a urine sample was made.
12:30 pm - After CABMMA official hands sample to the American drug tester he poses for photo with Aldo and gets his autograph.
01:40 pm - Urine sample is shipped to the lab.

June 23
11:00 am - 10 days after the drug test whilst sparring Aldo suffers a rib injury, awaits further tests to determine if he can fight.

June 29 - One day prior to new drug testing scheme coming online Aldo pulls out from July 11 fight with McGregor. According to his doctor Aldo asks for and is granted a therapeutic use exemption from Nevada for corticosteroids and other usually banned substances to heal his rib.

July 1 - UFC's new USADA partnered drug testing scheme begins operation. Until Aldo's TUE's have expired he will receive no testing.

July 7 - Aldo's urine test he finally completed on June 12 comes back clean.

[sources]
http://espn.go.com/blog/mma/post/_/i...est-last-month
http://www.mmamania.com/2015/7/7/890...conor-mcgregor
http://fansided.com/2015/06/23/ufc-1...onor-mcgregor/
http://espn.go.com/mma/story/_/id/13...conor-mcgregor
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finally found this. anyone know anywere in town be showing
the Mcgregor fight? got back from match then buzzin just need a conor win now
love that man lol
 
Why would anyone want Conor to lose unless you were a big Mendez fan if there was such a thing.

Conor loses this and the FW division is dead. A win tonight and if Aldo ever makes weight that would be massive!
 
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