Obviously, you enjoy the sport and are satisfied with how you spent your disposable income and free time, so what I'm about to day doesn't matter. However, if you'll allow me to play devil's advocate-- again, I know almost nothing about MMA--
With regards to the sport we saw two champs fall, three with Ronda not too long ago. This shakes things up.
Sports dynasties falling is good, totally agree there. However, as I understand it, the Hispanic gentleman was champion 10 years running, and he loses the championship in 10 seconds? This makes the whole process seem like a farce... it's probably not...
As for this particular fight... That man was a champ for over ten years. A long contest displaying various skills would of course be enjoyable, but we got a historical moment instead!
I understand that those "historical moments" might be cool for MMA nerds, but for me, and outsider, if I'm gonna pay for entertainment, I want to be entertained.
The implications are huge. And that said, it was a great showing of discipline and skill from Conor. Calculating. Pull Aldo into the trap. Very different from charging out and unleashing. Saw his shot and took it like lightning.
Uhh, what? The other stuff I said is trivial and objective and probably total BS. However, that stuff about making this Conor guy out to be a brilliant fighter because he hit a dude who fell? Come on.
First of all, what's this trap you speak of? You mean to tell me the white guy made the Hispanic guy fall down? Looked like Aldo did some charging and the 10-year champ failed to not fall down. Conor, to his credit, did the classic 'wait till my opponent falls down' move. He "saw his shot," lol, you mean after the other guy fell? I think any opposing fighter would know to go for the ole 'hit em when they're down' play.
Conor has one of the biggest personalities in the world of sports, and he showed he had the skill to back it up, in fantastic fashion.
By hitting a man who had just tripped over himself? Not a lot of skill required there. I mean, I probably couldn't do it, but I'm not a fighter.
He called it, that he would take him down in round one! He said it would be his left.
So it was fixed? ...I mean, it probably wasn't...