No Intro Needed: Official UFC 194 - Aldo vs McGregor & Weidman vs Rockhold Thread (+ Jacare/Romero)

[The Infamous]

Romero

#NoForGayJesus

 

[The Infamous]

This 4-man tournament

 

[Canon]

should be a great card

cheering for jacare and aldo

 

[THEREALBRAND]

As much as I want to say Aldo's going to dominate, Conor's size and style are making me nervous about this one



With that said I'm not getting my hopes up for the overall card until around 9 p.m on December 12th. A card with Aldo and Weidman as two of the headliners is just tempting fate

 

[LinusCaldwell]

This was interesting to me

 

[Big D Bangston]

Conor seems like a stand up dude. Still want Aldo to do work though.

 

[keepemup]

I like Aldo, but Conor's stand up game with his combination of length I fear will be too much for him. I honestly don't see this going past 3 with it likely ending in 2.

 

[The ADD]

I would imagine Connor will dry to drag him into deep water and test his cardio

 

[OfTheCross]

I like Aldo, but Conor's stand up game with his combination of length I fear will be too much for him. I honestly don't see this going past 3 with it likely ending in 2.

Conor's power worries me more than anything else.

These guys can finish each other in an instant

 

[Roid Jones]

I want to know what Aldo's mindset is, because Conor despite his antics is actually calm from what I have seen, while Aldo looks on edge. I like both dudes and don't mind who wins, but I don't want Aldo to try and prove a point and get reckless, just get the W and leave it at that.

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

#NoForGayJesus

Jesus wasn't gay

 

[OfTheCross]

I want to know what Aldo's mindset is, because Conor despite his antics is actually calm from what I have seen, while Aldo looks on edge. I like both dudes and don't mind who wins, but I don't want Aldo to try and prove a point and get reckless, just get the W and leave it at that.

You can't believe what you see in the media when you don't speak the language of Aldo. I would defer to @THEREALBRAND to give us a better idea of Aldo's mindet.

To me, it seems like he's calm and chill and ready for a right. But I don't listen to his Portuguese interviews so I dunno.

 

[OfTheCross]

The Night We Faced Aldo

Mike Brown (WEC 44): One thing that was weird: I distinctly remember noticing at the time, he would never look you in the eye. That was something he did. Now he’s starting to with Conor because of this whole thing going on because Conor’s so crazy. Conor’s getting a pulse out of him. But normally he would never look anyone in the eye. We had to do all these face-offs for promo videos where we had to step to each other, look at each other in the eye, then look at the camera. But he would never, ever look me in the eye. He would, like, look off. Look at your ear, you know? I always found that interesting.

Now when people tell me, ‘I looked a guy in the eye and I could tell I got him,’ I always think of Aldo. He didn’t look anybody in the eye. He just stared at the floor, came out and fought hard.

Brown: Jose was only [23 years old], but I don’t think I ever thought about how young he was. I actually thought he was older. Honestly. I actually remember it now, there was a rumor that people would say: ‘That’s bullshyt. He’s not even that young. He’s 28.’

Perez: With Jose Aldo, you don’t understand until you experience it....So I was used to speed, because I’d seen guys like that. But I never fought anyone with that kind of speed and confidence.

Florian: I didn’t get full feeling in my legs back for months. He was kicking the inside of my leg, which affected the nerves in my legs so much that it took about a full two months to really get feeling back. It actually [became a game]. I would swipe my hand on the inside of my leg to see if I could feel it, and I just couldn’t feel it. I literally could not feel my fingers rubbing against the skin of my leg because the nerves were dead.

Brookins: It was unbearable pain. I’d probably say easily one of the most painful moments of my life was the freaking days after the fight.

The hardest weapon in your body that you could throw, if you’re throwing it right, would be your shin. At this velocity and speed and projection and all the weight behind it in your leg, that’s easily the most damaging weapon if used correctly. And that dude (Aldo) will, like, cut your muscle. He’ll cut it to where you’ll bleed inside of your leg internally — to where, to this day, man, my knee will still swell up and have fluid in it. It still has cartilage all out of place because Jose ripped so many of the muscles in my leg. So much blood was draining into my knee after the fight that they kept having to syringe the blood out of my knee for almost two months.

Faber: He actually hit me with a jump knee, which — I didn’t feel it until later, but if you watch the fight he hit a jump knee that hit me right in the sternum. It knocked me down for a second then I stood right back up like nothing happened. But after my leg stopped hurting about four weeks after, then my sternum hurt for, like, almost two years. I’m not even sure what happened.

 

[OfTheCross]

Faber: Conor is fukking massive for that weight class. You can see when he and I are standing next to each other. I weighed 164 on [The Ultimate Fighter] and he’s fukking way bigger than I am. He’s fighting 145, so he had to be in the 170s, I would think. That’s a big motherfukker, man.

Florian: What I was hearing leading up to [UFC 189] — and I picked Chad basically because of it — was that Conor’s knee was like, ‘hanging on by a string.’ That was one of the quotes I heard, that apparently he was training with Rory MacDonald in Toronto and had hurt it pretty bad, and got rushed to get an MRI.

 

[LinusCaldwell]

I read that article yesterday morning it was really cool. Interesting to see Frankie and Swanson wanted no parts in it. The fact that no one has "pushed" Aldo is pretty fascinating he's kinda like Mayweather in that sense he just coasts