Georges St-Pierre weighed in on Conor McGregor’s legacy and his next moves. He believes the Irishman should fight someone with a style different from Dustin Poirier’s. Someone like Nate Diaz.
GSP talked to Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour about his opinion on McGregor’s fall from grace and the future of the biggest star in MMA.
GSP: McGregor Should Ignore Poirier, fight Diaz
“If he comes back, if I’m his manager, I don’t want my client to come back to fight the same guy again for the fourth time. Because now it seems like Dustin has his number. He needs to perhaps take another fight.
I think he should come back and maybe fight Nate Diaz or someone else that has a different style than Dustin Poirier. Because styles make fights and I have the feeling that now Dustin Poirier probably has his number right now.
Conor’s been out for a long time. He needs to get back in there to spend more time in the Octagon, in order to find his own self, the way he moves, and his ability. It seems like he might have lost some of his ability, due to his inactivity.”
McGregor lost both Poirier fights this year via TKO, albeit via a broken leg in the second bout. While Conor screamed repeatedly that their rivalry isn’t over, the 2-1 record in Poirier’s favor – and the fact that both of Poirier’s wins against McGregor came this year – suggests that perhaps Conor McGregor has lost his edge.
GSP isn’t alone in suggesting that McGregor isn’t the same fighter he once was. When McGregor knocked Eddie Alvarez out in 2016, he seemed untouchable. He was the UFC’s first two-division champion. In the five years since, McGregor has fought only four times, including the two losses to Poirier this year. His record since 2016 is abysmal: only one win in four fights.
Plenty of excuses and explanations have been offered as to his fall from success, but it’s hard to argue against the detrimental effect of time away from the Octagon. While any opponent with enough of a profile to fight Conor kept fighting regularly, McGregor took up boxing, losing to Floyd Mayweather, and a variety of business ventures. Five years later, the ring rust caught up to him.
Today, Conor McGregor nurses a broken leg and a bruised ego, with a long road to recovery ahead of him. We may well have seen the last of the McGregor of old, so perhaps a superfight against his old arch-nemesis Nate Diaz is the right way for Conor McGregor to go out.
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