UFC 264 and Conor McGregor’s Little Shop of Horrors

 

Conor McGregor’ Little Shop of Horrors, The Reality Behind the Conjured Facade May be Depressingly Simple. Behind the unmitigated fuckery, aided and abetted by Dana White and Joseph James Rogan, Conor McGregor’s “Little Shop of Horrors” was on full display at UFC 264 for those who had not seen it before. Pencils Sketch Copyright, iLikeWallPaper.Com Artist, iPhone Wallpapers 1125×2436 PIX.

UFC 264 revealed nothing that people with sight and insight didn’t already know about a pretender named Conor Anthony McGregor. Truth of the matter is that he was a genuine fake from day one, from the nickname “The Notorious” which belonged to Biggie Smalls through the tattoo (which appears to have been a blatant rip-off of John Mario John, a Canadian model’s tattoo design) to the Ali-esque penchant for predicting knock-out rounds. The bravado was false and the rhodomontade pure high school juvenilia.  McGregor’s antics never appealed to men with a more steely reserve or classic form of machismo; never! What the off-kilter McGregor persona fed on from day one were minds hatched in a social media/WWE hothouse. 

 

The “Feed Me” composite that simplifies what may be at the heart of the Conor McGregor Roscharch. Graphic Composite: 900×900 PIX

But beyond the unmitigated fuckery, what UFC 264 proved (once again) was that a string of dubious early wins were a set up for a monetized con – and arguably the worst thing to ever happen to fans who unfortunately flit between MMA and WWE. It was also the worst thing to happen to Conor McGregor. (Read stories of why this was so below and why McGregor’s early wins were all sus.)

And if you wanna save yourself a little time and energy,  look at what happened to Ronda Rousey and you’d “Cliff Note” the entire story because the twain are peas in a pod, …… or salt-encrusted nuts in a shell.

POINT: Both were brittle one trick ponies who crackED spectacularly under middling pressure. (Did we say crack!)

Middling you say? Yes, middling because the likes of Holly Holm, Chad Mendes, Nate Diaz and even the recently resurgent Dustin Poirier were not certified killers in the mould of say a Chuck Liddell, Anderson Silva, Cris Cyborg or even Amanda Nunes.

Conor McGregor and Ronda Rousey were WWE-style action figurines collusively promoted by Dana White and Joseph James Rogan. Nothing more. The lack of substance applied as much to their fighting skills as to their personas and, by extension, their storied public relations faux pas. Ronda’s mean-mugging schtick for a walk in was pure  WWE from day one and so was Conor’s octagonal strut – another thing he stole from WWE Honcho, Vince McMahon. Can’t make this stuff up. (Google Conor McGregor and “the Billi strut” and see what comes up.)

Think high risk and high reward on a 50/50 split, which basically defaults to gambling odds – and ya know what they say about the house and betting against it, right?

In Conor McGregor’s case, his marketing antics, camouflaged a relatively talentless blowhard who was just as unbalanced as Ronda Rousey in stressful situations. Both were fine as long as they were winning and absolute train-wrecks as soon as the facade began to crack. (Oooh, there’s that “CRACK” thingie again!) Their final days mirror each other to a “T” for this very reason. The twain were as incapable of confronting adversity as they were of facing real challengers in non-scripted or insulated situations . 

Challenges and defeats (no matter how momentary) were oft cues to start unravelling and UFC 264 was an emphatic case in point in Conor McGregor’s case, replete with Trump-like denial of reality.  The stream of garbled invective coming out McGregor’s mouth from the mat (after the leg break) was revelatory only to people who had not been paying attention – former opponent Khabib Normadomedov notably excepted. For McGregor, the desperate hour returned with neck-snapping whiplash and along with it, the collapse of any pretense of decency.  

Khabib Numagomedov (God bless his heart) gets a bit stumped when it comes to trying to describe Conor McGregor. Consequently he often defaults to Gothic/religio descriptors which are as odious as Papakhas on an Irish thug’s head.

The redacted truth may be that, like Donald Trump, Conor McGregor is not really evil in the Mephistophelian sense of the word but just a vacuous homunculus who engages in awfully hellish things. Yes, like Donald Trump, Mcgregor engages in acts devoid of recognizable humanity.

Both do horrible things because of the homunculus proportions of their manhood, hence the trademark bellicosity and constant need for reassurance and d*ck noodle strokin’. Both get really riled up when their inner midget is in danger of being exposed. These are grown men with temperaments of a chihuahua – certified ankle biters who unfortunately have the capability of inflicting real pain on people at the receiving end of their fuckery. But that said, their other threat is the demands they place on people around them. The Mephistophelian evil in their case is the effect rather than the cause, if that makes sense.

Case in point, the little monster born inside McGregor with his first “win” (or a semblance of it) had to be fed and fed, and fed often.  The problem was that the wins, ever since Jose Aldo, had been few and far in between when not fighting relative midgets or dudes he knew he could physically bully and beat. For the longest time McGregor fought relative nobodies or smaller dudes he knew he could physically bully after cutting weight to Skeletor proportions – but that said, McGregor nearly miscalculated with Chad Mendes.

What may be ailing McGregor lately is that  the one hundred mill he made sham-boxing Mayweather may perhaps be running low due to documented Ibiza habits, scandals and lawsuits that seem to be snapping at his heels like (yes) a vengeful chihuahua. Karma never loses.

The “evil” that Khabib Nomagomedov  sees in Conor may not be the cause of what he decries, but the effect of McGregor’s patented lack of real manhood multiplied by the aforementioned little-shop-of-horrors aspect.

My name is BNSG and this has been a free MMA tip.

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What is Brock Lesnar Actually Saying Here? (The Perplex of a Man Who Would be Champ)

I have tried to make sense of the first interview Brock Lesnar has given following the  jaw-dropping mauling by Cain Velasquez with no success. If you doubt me give it a try and see if you have better luck. The interview is right here:

http://sports.espn.go.com/extra/mma/columns/story?id=6060544

Brock Lesnar Perplex

My first reaction was to think that the man was incapable of self-assessment and self-reflection – but that is just way too easy – and I am not going for it. I think Brock is way more  in touch with what happened at UFC 121 than he is letting on. I think the truth has more to do with him being scared crapless than being clueless. So instead of laying it all out  Rashad Evans’ style (after his loss to Lyoto Machida) he is throwing everything at us in the hope that more than one thing will stick. The other word for that is obfuscation.

It’s not very complicated – and here it is (Remember you heard it here first):

1. Brock is Lesnar is not the man he once was physically. The combination of  the catastrophic illness has just left him a shadow of the image his pumped-up form projects. When you put that form toe-to-toe with the nervy and lithe form of a collegiate phenom who hacks back to a time when athleticism was hewn in retro gyms of yore and you have the makings of a rout that you saw at UFC 121. That physical decline is like staring athletic mortality in the face – and for a man as ego-driven as Brock, that is some scary shit.

2. The  relentless pounding that Lesnar endured at the hands of Shane Carwin may have softened his butter way more than he and or people realized. So in this one respect he may have been right in his assessment that taking back to back championship fights in a short period may not have been the best thing for him – but the fact of the matter may be the quality of the challengers he faced.  Shane Carwin ain’t Frank Mir and Cain Velasquez ain’t Min Soo Kim. In the former fight, Shane Carwin beat Shane Carwin. If it hadn’t been for equipment failure, Shane Carwin would have beat Brock Lesnar – no, make that knocked out Brock Lesnar quicker that Cain Velasquez mauled him. (So in that respect don’t place your bets yet on a Carwin vs Velasquez show-down: the next biggest thing in MMA!)

3. In UFC 121, Brock Lesnar’s stand-up chops, or lack thereof , were sorely exposed by a man who is his athletic foil – Cain Velasquez. But note this children: that is not the main reason Brock went down in a cloud of California dust. Randy Couture had good stand-up, but against a still-strong Lesnar, the stand-up had zilch effect. Which brings us back on short order to point #1. Scary shit for the man who would be champ.

Finally the fact that Brock claims that (up until the time of the ESPN interview – which is a good three months after UFC 121 – that he had not seen the footage of his own mauling makes zero sense to me.  Why would a fighter of his stature not want to see where he slipped up? Why would he go a-huntin’ and doing everything else without figuring out what went wrong?

No, a lot of things don’t add up here. Either Brock Lesnar is lying or,  as aforementioned,  he knows exactly what went wrong hence the absence of urgency concerning checking out the fight video.

More on this later children.

BNSG on the MMA tip.

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UFC 123 against Lyoto Machida will prove whether Quinton Rampage Jackson is coming out of mental retirement

And the same can be said of Machida, depending on how he wins UFC 123 – if he wins it. His Papi, Yoshizo Machida,  thinks he should have retired after his disastrous showing against Shogun Rua.

Time used to be that Lyoto Machida versus Quinton Jackson actually mattered as a clash of styles, the struggle of  the  insider versus the outsider,  ol’ time slugger vs Mr. Miyagi’s Daniel-san and  Brazil versus the good ol’ U.S. of A. – you get the drift.  Dana White and Joe Silva didn’t quite see it that way – or so it seems. They blinked and that  moment passed in the night of  UFC 104 when Shogun proved that he was the shits. He proved that the new-fangled Karate Kid (read that Machida) could not launch game-ending kicks from a crane pose.

The monumental moment sculpted in time and circumstance was gone forever. In its place?  The brouhaha of Shogun being robbed of his rightful title the first time around and  Dana White/Rampage Jackson catfight around the remake of the  “A-Team” – a scuffle in which both came out with PR black eyes.  The Shogun frenzy was in full force.  Machida was old news.  And so was Rampage Jackson, especially after his out-of-body smothering by Rashad Evans at  UFC 114. Evans wrangled a win after a snoozer of a grope-fest – and nobody cared. Not one. Rampage Jackson, the  body slamming terror of Pride was apparently done.  Mentally that is.

Mental Hiatus: UFC's Quinton Rampage Jackson as Mr. T. Will UFC 123 mark the return of the former Pride terror?

Now as if pouring sludge on dying embers, comes UFC 123 with Machida versus Rampage as if anybody who is anybody cared. Well, let’s put this in perspective. Fans kind of care but in the same way that “Deal or No Deal” contestants tell Howie Mandel what box they would have chosen if they had not taken the money and run. You get the drift? It’s exactly like that. Fans kind of want to see what would have happened back at UFC  104 had Dana White kept his promise to match Rampage vs Machida on the heels of Machida’s climactic knockout of Rashad Evans at  UFC  98.

UFC's Lyoto the Dragon Machida as the video game martial arts hero Ryu: Will UFC 123 mark his return from Shogun induced ignominy?

Quick and Dirty Analysis: Rampage has never done well against mixed martial artists who can chop his base through vicious kicks. If Machida can chop Rampage’s base without being slugged to death, he will probably win this fight. Ditto if he can bring it to the ground and submit the Pride vet who has never been known for ground chops. The flip side of this is that Machida has never been known to take a punch like a man and keep his wits about him. The overhand loopy-de-loop strike from Shogun in the last fight  had him singing lullabies in the micro-second Shogun’s fist connected with his dome. If Rampage can close in on Machida and slug him out Carwin style – he will be the winner tonight. And with the Machida mystique dead and buried, Rampage may just muster enough cojones to rough up the former Brazilian wunderkind. To sum everything up basically, flip a coin. Flip a coin.

My woo-woo prediction though is that the night belongs to Machida. I see him win in the first or second round. Just a hunch. Just a hunch.

I am BNSG on the MMA tip.

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