Analyzing Conor McGregor's Movement and Rhythm

and when you look at connor you you look at his movement since he started doing that and you know i'm giving the majority of his success always has to go with his fight camp and has to go with John Connor and all those guys but it's it's undeniable when you watch him fight the fight the more he does the movement stuff the more crisp he gets and now I mean look look at look at his last fight he barely gets touched his his ability to counter punch he the guys barely miss him he's his rhythm and his timing is so good now when somebody swings they just they whiff by millimeters and he's on them yeah he definitely flows seamlessly and that's always something really important as a fighter to be able to transition between various techniques and make them connect really well and gel and it's all about i guess the right technique at the right time and i mean as you highlighted being able to have the movement capabilities to um you know express that is absolutely paramount absolutely and and you know and to be able to do it and not waste any energy right and to be able to to be able to last five rounds yeah so smooth as fast so just out of interest who are some of the other fighters that that you'd watch in the UFC these days? You know, honestly, we don't watch that much. I really don't know that many of the fighters. Who's that guy that just recently won that was a real show pony? The real show, what's his name? You really liked him. I really liked him. I cannot remember his name. I would have said Conor, but we're already out of time. Yeah, I've been a big fan of Conor's for a few years now. I remember seeing him fight in Boston. I was living near Boston and John Conor got me a ticket and I was able to go and watch it And he just steamrolled past the guy who was fighting So I used to be hard out in it, man. Back in the day, I still have VHS tapes of when it first came out, and there were no fucking weight classes. So do I. Which is, you know, and I was trying to talk to Zoe about it, because she kind of got into this stuff recently. And I'm like, no, it was mania back then because you would have a 185-pound guy fighting a 660-pound sumo wrestler. That's right. UFC 1. UFC 1. I've got the video. Yeah. Taylor Tooley lost his teeth to Gerard Gourdeau. The UFC was brutal in the early days. Far too brutal. It's like fucking Kumite blood sport shit, you know? Exactly. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Is that the guy? Yeah. I don't even know how to say his name. Garbrandt? Cody Garbrandt, yeah. Yeah, that guy. No love. I fucking love that guy. You love his tats? His what? His tats. No, you know, I like... You watched him fight Cruz, I think it was. I don't like the showboating, but I do like the counter-punching and the rhythm and the timing and the crispness and the power. And the footwork. You were really impressed with his footwork. The footwork, man. I've got a buddy, my buddy Rob Pilger in Ohio. he was a golden gloves boxer now he owns a really really nice training center and you know he was telling me uh i saw him post on facebook once he goes if you walk into a boxing place and they start teaching you how to punch before they teach you footwork leave so ever since he said that i'm always watching people's footwork and his footwork and his timing was just fucking ridiculous absolutely that's where the power is generated and that's what transfers through the body and that's the thing like i'm just a big fucking ogre like when i when i get in the fights, I just grab them, put them on the ground, lay on top of them. So that's my special gift. Nothing wrong with that strategy. No. It keeps me from getting punched in the face, which I don't really care for too much. But to watch some of these guys and the complete power and control they have is phenomenal.