Conor McGregor has packed on weight in the past few months, but “The American Gangster” Chael Sonnen is thoroughly unimpressed. Conor has clearly spent much of his broken-leg-induced downtime training with weights rather than for an MMA fight, as pictures recently uploaded to Instagram revealed.
Chael Sonnen, however, says that the Irishman’s weight may well be too high, as evident by his “extremely bloated” appearance.
Chael Sonnen Blasts Bulked-up McGregor’s “Bloated” physique
“Conor is chiseled, man. There’s clothing people that pay Conor to wear their stuff. He’s got this fantastic build. That picture of him at 190 [lbs], I can’t give those same compliments. He looked like he was extremely bloated.
And when somebody weighs 190 – that’s used to weighing 155, 175; what you have to wonder is how. How did you get this big? Why? The answer to me seems redundantly obvious.”
The answer, says Sonnen, is that McGregor has avoided MMA training due to his broken leg. As a result, all this extra weight is redundant for McGregor’s profession.
“You’re not training. You cannot train the way you need to prepare in MMA, which we’re well aware. We are well aware that Conor is not. He’s got the hurt leg and he’s not doing what he is used to.
He’s not jumping rope. He’s not running. He’s not pulling the sled. He’s not sparring. We get it. He’s having to do other exercises. But that’s always important to know because that’s what Sean’s talking about.
If you’re not doing our sport, who gives a damn what you weigh? If your calorie deficit to intake got so far out of control, that you’re bigger than you’ve ever been, that’s not a good thing.”
McGregor may have trouble returning to 155lbs from his massive 190lb physique. This wouldn’t be an issue if Conor hadn’t spent much of the past five months declaring that he was coming for the lightweight champ. Of course, McGregor is no stranger to serious weight cuts.
It’s hard to forget the emaciated, almost two-dimensional frame the Irishman cut in the lead-up to his fight with Jose Aldo, when McGregor got all the way down to 135 pounds. However, as combat athletes age, cutting huge amounts of weight for a fight becomes more difficult, and takes a greater toll on their health.
Conor McGregor might be better off fighting at welterweight, or even middleweight as his head coach John Kavanagh alluded to. Do you think Conor is too big? Let us know in the comments.
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