Countdown to UFC 229 on October 6, 2018 and End of the Conor McGregor Con

The clock is ticking and Conor McGregor knows it. Yes all men are psychics  when it  counts. Conor McGregor (who pulled an unhinged Ronda Rousey act at his weigh in yesterday) knows it  the way Chris Weidman knew it before Chris’ spectacular drubbing by Luke Rockhold at  UFC 194. But don’t wait for the vacuously sophomoric Irishman to tell that to the world because he won’t …. except through a few unintended tells. Look  and pan for them like an intrepid Forty-niner  if you wanna keep the family farm.

McGregor Myth sell-by-date: October 6, 2018 which coincides with UFC 229 and Conor McGregor’s fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov a.k.a. the Hail Mary of a Headhunter vs  the Dagestani Grinder who Wrestled Bears for gym kicks as a child. Last time we checked Conor was no bear. “Conor McGregor is every bit the old Ronda Rousey (before the Holly Holm decapitation) minus the robotic vibes.” (Incrucible.Net) Photo Copyright: Michael Reaves/Getty Images

The Sideshow Must Go On: You are gonna have to pan for them tells ‘coz McGregor ain’t gonna tell ya. Reason? The Conor McGregor Sideshow must go on. Put another way, Conor has few choices but to whistle through this graveyard that has closed in on him like a malodorous fog. He is gonna whistle through the graveyard the same way Chris Weidman did prior to UFC 194. But then, come to think of  it, Weidman was telegraphing his own drubbing all over the place and we predicted it right here. McGregor is gonna be no exception.

Strategic Concession: Beyond the sophomoric-cum-high school jinks McGregor puts on, he is perfectly capable of sober risk assessment (which is something that, with the help of Dana White, has served him rather well in the UFC to date.) That side showed up just before his fight with Eddie Alvarez when one could hear McGregor tossing out phrases that could serve him well in case of a loss. It’s possible he might pull the same maneuvers here, cognizant of how his pop-cultural doppleganger, Ronda Rousey fell and did so on  stage that was high and lifted up.

Ice-cold Tyron Woodley Throw-down to Conor McGregor: “I walk around at 202lbs. You fought featherweights in your life before.” Tyron Woodley dismissing  presumption of  a Conor McGregor Challenge, YouTube 6:48“

Which brings us to the question of of why McGregor took this fight in the first place. Well for that, look no further than the stench of fakery (and curated opponents) that has followed Conor like a hobo since day one.

OK, OK, a few opponents like Jose Aldo, Eddie Alvarez and Dos Anjos were exceptions to the lucrative rule, but upon examining them closely one could see the conniving mofo method behind McGregor’s madness …. an intuitive calculus that made him choose guys he could beat with the wholesale collusion of the UFC.

Deep Dive Analysis: Yes, Conor McGregor, with the active collusion of the UFC, ended up with opponents he felt he could physically and or mentally bully, especially at featherweight (refer to Tyron Woodley quote above). Remember the “conquistador” quip in the lead-up to the Aldo fight? Well, there is more to that quip than hyperbole. Most fighters in McGregor’s lineups were dudes whose head-spaces he could easily invade and when you threw in the linguistically-challenged Brazilians and McGregor-envisioned “cholos”, you had  the makings of a rout basically.  At 170lbs, Nate Diaz fell into an anomalous-but-beatable category though; the MGregor’s calculus being that Stockton scrapper wasn’t much beyond a punching bag that could not offset McGregor’s speed and accuracy, even with Diaz’s ballyhooed advantage in Gracie BJJ. Diaz-McGregor II proved that right beyond a shadow of doubt. But we digress as usual.

The Dagestani Grinder who Wrestled Bears for gym kicks, Khabib Nurmagomedov: The man tasked with ending the bloviated myth of Conor McGregor at UFC 229. Will Conor McGregor show up to face his worst stylistic nightmare or find a way to worm out of this one? October 6, 2018 will tell.

Back to the fakery hobo-stank thang. It is the main reason McGregor agreed to the Nurmagomedov matchup. In Mafiesque parlance, it was time to be “a made man”. If you doubt that consider this:

1. Nurmagomedov has little to prove to McGregor. Conor, au contraire, has that fakery monkey sitting on his back and asking for bananas at inopportune times. Nurmagomedov is a world class Sambo savant and McGregor is a headhunter praying for a fortuitous Hail Mary. You do the math. McGregor’s real (as in credible) UFC record is really 5 wins and 1 loss as opposed to the curated and padded 9 wins/1 loss on McGregor’s  UFC page.  The credible 5/1 record would comprise admissible wins against Holloway, Mendes, Aldo, and Diaz and a telling loss to Diaz in their first fight preceded by strong showing by Holloway and an almost upset by Chad “Mini-me” Mendes.(McGregor’s characterization.)
2. Odds makers have little time for monkey business when it comes to their money and the odds behind it, which seem to be telling a story that cannot be drowned out by the sound and fury of Conor and the UFC hype machine. And for those who drank the green-colored Kool Aid, it has to be stunning. Sure enough the True Believers, along with Irish fans, will whittle those odds down to flinty minimums, but don’t put that down to rationality. Hopefully none of them will go all in like Harold Camping’s followers lest the Las Vegas sharks get fat off the brown blubber of believers.

Other reasons for Conor taking the Khabib fight may have to do with good ol’ moola and McGregor’s changing conception of himself. Well, for a party-hardy guy (livin’  large and sunning hi’self like lizard in Ibiza)  a hundred million dollars may actually not be that much money.

Conor McGregor Ahead of UFC 229: Whistling through the graveyard or praying in The Garden? ( the Jesus prayer of Matthew 26:39).  Take your pick while cuing “When I Remember Gethsemane by J.W.”

But Will This Fight Really Happen? Nobody really knows beyond the fact that McGregor is most probably praying the Jesus prayer of Matthew 26:39. Put another way: This fight is just not a good fight for a guy who has made a fortune off of engineered breaks, opportunism and chaos within the divisions. And concerning the latter, yes, you can thrown in the Mayweather debacle and UFC exemption that would not have been given to anyone else, money or no money.  Mcgregor-Mayweather was the most flagrant example of the tail wagging the dog.

“Conor McGregor is every bit the old Ronda Rousey (before the Holly Holm decapitation) minus the robotic vibes.” (Incrucible.Net)

Now seeing that Nurmagomedov may be the first tough fight Macgregor has not had the  luxury of pre-vetting and then choosing, Conor may very well find a way to worm out of this one. REASON? As in the case of his doppleganger, Ronda Rousey, this fight has as much potential of ending his myth (The McGregor’s Myth) as the Holly Holm fight had of ending Ronda Rousey’s. And one of the reasons this fight is gonna be big (if it indeed happens) is that  Conor McGregor is every bit the old Ronda Rousey (before the Holly Holm decapitation) minus the robotic vibes. So the reason the Nurmagomedov/Mcgregor fight is gonna be the most transfixing fight is that  it affords MMA fans a front-seat to the biggest and loudest ego deflation since Ronda’s head hit the canvas – with dude on the receiving end being under zero anesthesia.

The Recently Announced 6-Fight UFC Deal: And if ya think the recently-signed 6-fight UFC deal won’t be riddled with decline, cant and controversy, ya haven’t been paying attention. All you have to ask yourself is how well the UFC has ridden this bucking horse named Conor in the last few years. If making quick buck off raucous dilettantes (which started with Lesnar through McGregor and CM Punk) was the only object, then the UFC would be in great shape right about now. Plot Spoiler: It isn’t and that ballyhooed $7 billion valuation is pure, unadulterated bunk driven by the same hype enterprise that would have you believe that the upcoming Nurmagomedov-McGregor clash is the biggest fight in the history of the sport. Jeez! (And I don’t mean that in the liturgical sense.)

Enough of this crapshoot wrapped inside a charade! which, like most things UFC these days, just ain’t worth much journalism of the serious kind.)

BNSG on corporate charlattan patrol.

Related Links & Stories:

1. Chris Weidman and the Theater of the Promotional Absurd (Incrucible.Net)
2. Conor McGregor and the Sycophantic Press in the Echo Chamber That Is the UFC (Incrucible.Net)
3. The Conor McGregor Hype Train Exposed at UFC 189 (Incrucible.Net)
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Conor McGregor (Incrucible.Net)
5. Weak Sauce of a Press Conference, a.k.a. Scrapping the Bottom of the Promotional Barrel: Nurmagomedov/McGregor Press Conference, Thursday 09/20/19, Youtube
6. UFC Cools Down as its Challengers Heat Up (Variety Magazine, Sept. 28, 2018)
7. Conor McGregor, Jose Aldo, and the Elevation of Fluff Over Stuff (Incrucible.Net, December 12, 2015)
8.  Conor McGregor’s pre-UFC 229 interview with MacLife’s Andrew McGahon in Las Vegas, Sept. 30, 2018 .

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