{"id":374392,"date":"2021-01-26T09:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T17:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=374392"},"modified":"2021-01-26T09:27:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T17:27:18","slug":"michael-bisping-shares-thoughts-on-why-conor-mcgregor-lost-at-ufc-257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/michael-bisping-shares-thoughts-on-why-conor-mcgregor-lost-at-ufc-257\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping shares his thoughts on why Conor McGregor lost at UFC 257"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping has shared his thoughts on why Conor McGregor lost to Dustin Poirier.<\/p>\n

McGregor and Poirier met in the main event of UFC 257 this past weekend. The bout was a rematch of a 2014 fight that McGregor won by first-round knockout.<\/p>\n

This time around, however, Poirier softened McGregor up with leg kicks and ultimately stopped him with strikes in round two.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the UFC 257 post-fight show on ESPN, Bisping offered his take on what went wrong for McGregor at UFC 257. He believes it was, in part, a question of conditioning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I saw here was Conor\u2019s lack of conditioning once again rearing its ugly head,\u201d Bisping said (via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cI hate to say it. Dustin Poirier had the perfect game plan \u2014 go in clinch, try and take him down \u2014 and he did that perfectly. At the start of the fight, Conor looked sharp. He looked like the usual Conor. Landing the left hand, looking confident, going forward, but then when you make somebody wrestler that isn\u2019t used to it, that has a history of getting tired, that\u2019s what we saw. We saw the facial expression change. We saw the confidence change and then as the tide started to turn, Dustin Poirier saw the opening, put him to sleep. Just a tremendous night for Dustin Poirier.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the stakes were high and Dustin was having success, he was leaving openings that in the past I feel McGregor would have taken advantage of there. But as I said, he was starting to get a little tired and we saw what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

After losing to Poirier, McGregor was quick to blame his performance on his inactivity, as he’s competed in just three mixed martial arts contests since 2014.<\/p>\n

Bisping, however, believes that so-called “ring rust” is purely a mental hurdle.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorges St-Pierre<\/a> came off the couch after three and a half years and choked me out unconscious,\u201d Bisping said. \u201cA lot of people say that ring rust is a mental thing and it is. It\u2019s a mental thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Conor was staying in the gym and doing everything he said, it wouldn\u2019t be a factor,” Bisping added. “The reality is tonight he went out there and he got beat by Dustin Poirier. There\u2019s no shame in that.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day you get ready, two people enter the cage, Dustin was the better man tonight,\u201d Bisping concluded. \u201cYou can look for excuses. You can try and dissect it. The ultimate answer tonight the better man won the fight.”<\/p>\n

What do you think of this analysis from Michael Bisping? Do you think Conor McGregor was foiled by a deficit in the conditioning department?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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