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Quote: Conor McGregor Is Stuck At 170 Because He Got On Steroids

In the aftermath of the blockbuster UFC 196 event from Las Vegas, Nevada, featherweight champion the “Notorious” Conor McGregor sited fatigue and inefficient use of energy as the catalyst in his shocking submission loss to late replacement Nate Diaz. McGregor, competing two weight classes above his usual home at 145-pounds, appeared to have tired himself

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In the aftermath of the blockbuster UFC 196 event from Las Vegas, Nevada, featherweight champion the “Notorious” Conor McGregor sited fatigue and inefficient use of energy as the catalyst in his shocking submission loss to late replacement Nate Diaz.

McGregor, competing two weight classes above his usual home at 145-pounds, appeared to have tired himself out by throwing heavy leather early on in the bout.

Diaz’s teammate, Joe Schilling, recently spoke on the matter, saying that any professional would have known better than to use McGregor’s perceived method:

 “You have 12 days’ notice to fight five, five-minute rounds. There is no way that any consumate professional is going to go out there and blow his wad in the first round – unless you’re Conor McGregor and you go out there and blow your wad in the first round,” he told The MMA Underground‘s Jonathan Shrager.

Continuing on, the world class kickboxer confirmed that Diaz’s game plan, which of course ended up being successful, was nearly the polar opposite to that of the Irishman’s:

“So, Nate’s game plan was to go out there, not get knocked-out, but not waste any energy, and pick up as the rounds went on, because you have to go five rounds. You look at Nick and Nate’s style of fighting – they don’t ever do that well in the first round. They set a pace and then they drown you in it and then by the third, fourth round, guys are shooting for takedowns because they can’t stand getting hit anymore.”

Diaz was able to exploit what many had felt had been McGregor’s weakness all along: the ground game. With the two now set to headline July 9’s monumental UFC 200, Schilling feels as if the rematch will be more of the same, although Diaz will be in even better shape this time around:

“I think that’s exactly what happened in the fight, and I think going into another fight thinking that Nate’s not going to be in better shape and come out with an even harder pace in the first round,” he continued.

“I think it’s going to be the same fight. I think it’s so obvious the wholes in Conor’s game, they were all over the place. I think the skillset that Nate has is far superior to Conor’s and Nate having a full training camp is just way different.”

Despite McGregor typical competing at featherweight, and Diaz being a natural 155 pounder, the rematch will once again take place at welterweight, a sign Schilling uses to accuse McGregor of being on steroids, an accusation Diaz has already made:

“If we’re going to talk about weight-gains and why he would want to stay at that weight class I don’t think it’s going to be that different when Nate talks about how you’re on steroids,” he began.

“Now, you can’t get back down to that weight class, you’re stuck at that weight division because you got on steroids, but we’ll wait for Nate to say that, not me.”

This isn’t the first time the “Notorious” one has been called out for possibly cheating, but his UFC 196 drug tests did indeed come back clean.

Do you hold any truth to these statements, and how do you see UFC 200 playing out?

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Jose Aldo Makes Shocking Accusation About Conor McGregor

After suffering a devastating 13 second defeat to Conor McGregor at December 2015’s UFC 194, Jose Aldo claimed that he would only accept a rematch with McGregor, or a fight for the title. Aldo has since changed his tune a bit, accepting a bout with former foe Frankie Edgar for the interim 145-pound strap at

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After suffering a devastating 13 second defeat to Conor McGregor at December 2015’s UFC 194, Jose Aldo claimed that he would only accept a rematch with McGregor, or a fight for the title.

Aldo has since changed his tune a bit, accepting a bout with former foe Frankie Edgar for the interim 145-pound strap at July 9’s UFC 200. McGregor, who has temporarily abandoned the division he owns a title in, will rematch Nate Diaz in the evening’s main event.

The Irishman previously faced off with Diaz, who accepted the bout on short notice, at March 5’s UFC 196, shockingly losing by way of submission.

“Scarface” claims that he was offered the short notice bout, but that the promotion knew he wasn’t ready at the time. The former divisional kingpin also accused McGregor of using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs):

“The fight was not at featherweight. Why would I rematch him in a different weight class with no belt?” Aldo told the assembled media as translated by MMA Fighting. “Now, to make this fight at 155, where he was full of juice in his body, where he hides and nobody tests him, only when he gets to Las Vegas, a week before the fight, and then it’s way easier for you to clean the body and fight. They offered the fight knowing that I wasn’t trained at all.”

As far as whether or not Aldo will eventually secure his rematch with the “Notorious” one, UFC President Dana White has confirmed that no matter what, McGregor will meet the winner of Aldo vs. Edgar after July.

Aldo too feels as if the Irishman will come back down in weight:

“He will come back,” Aldo said. “I don’t know if right after this fight, but he will. I don’t see how he gets too far even at lightweight. He won’t do well at lightweight either.”

We are now just over three months out from UFC 200 where Aldo feels like a fully prepared Diaz will once again come out on top:

“Nate wins again,” he said. “He’s used to this weight. It’s really hard to move up in weight and continue winning. It’s going to be different now that Nate will be more prepared. He can do his thing, anything he wants, from start to end. He can slap him, anything, because he will win. It can be faster this time. Nate will prepare, will have enough time, and it can be faster this time.”

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Coach: ‘Little Guy’ Conor McGregor Is On Some Substance

As of this very moment, nothing has been confirmed regarding the potentially massive Nate Diaz vs. Conor McGregor rematch which has been rumored for July 9’s UFC 200 from Las Vegas, Nevada. The two met earlier this month at UFC 196 with Diaz accepting the bout on just 10 days notice, and the “Notorious” one

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As of this very moment, nothing has been confirmed regarding the potentially massive Nate Diaz vs. Conor McGregor rematch which has been rumored for July 9’s UFC 200 from Las Vegas, Nevada.

The two met earlier this month at UFC 196 with Diaz accepting the bout on just 10 days notice, and the “Notorious” one fighting two whole weight classes above his usual home at 145-pounds.

Despite the odd circumstances, many had expected the Irish hype machine to score yet another knockout finish, but the Stockton native shocked the world, scoring a second round submission victory.

Richard Perez, a coach of Diaz, recently spoke on the possible rematch, saying that if Diaz is given a full training camp, McGregor simply doesn’t stand a chance:

“Well there’s no signed contract,” Perez told Submission Radio about the status of the rematch. “(Nate) just said they told him that he might be fighting again, 170 (against) McGregor. So I said, okay. So he’s planning on coming into the gym next week and start working out.”

“When he’s in good shape and he has no injury, he dominates. He dominates easy,” he said. “He stops people or he beats them. You know, they don’t have a chance. And McGregor had a full camp training, and he even moved up weight to get stronger. Nathan was out, enjoying himself, going to Cabo. You know, he’s eating and drinking and having fun, and they call him.”

“So if it took him two weeks to dominate a guy that’s undefeated, that’s the golden boy, what do you think is going to happen in three months training?” he said. “McGregor’s never seen Nathan in really good shape, he’s seen him only half-ass. This is nothing. He wasn’t really in tip-top shape at all.”

Not only is Perez confident that McGregor will once again be knocked off, but he’s also been a bit skeptical of the Irishman’s triumphant move up in weight.

Perez feels as if McGregor may be on some type of ‘substance’, claiming that fighters don’t bulk up so quickly without holding onto some fat:

“Like I told you at the beginning, I said I’m not the one that really knows, but just by watching a guy to come up from 145 to 170, you’re gonna have some fat on you. Believe me, you’re going to have to have some fat somewhere. Around your waist, somewhere. He didn’t have any fat at all. He was solid muscle. So how are you going to build that much in two weeks and be solid muscle?”

“He was supposed to fight at 155, but he was already overweight. I know he was. When he found out that (Rafael dos Anjos) hurt his ankle, he called Nathan out at 170. So that tells me right there that he couldn’t get down to weight because something’s making him build up.”

“Like I said, I’m not the one who really knows about him, but to me, I feel like he’s gotta be on some kind of substance, you know, to get built up,” he said. “Cause he’s a little guy, and a little guy can’t get real bulky that quick.”

Do you see any truth in Perez’s bold accusations?

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Nate Diaz’ Coach ‘Knows’ Conor McGregor Is On Steroids

Last week after the dust settled on lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos’ withdrawal from his UFC 196 bout against Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz stepped in to replace him, the promotion put on an impromptu press conference in Torrance, California, and the result will almost certainly go down as one of the most memorable trash

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Last week after the dust settled on lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos’ withdrawal from his UFC 196 bout against Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz stepped in to replace him, the promotion put on an impromptu press conference in Torrance, California, and the result will almost certainly go down as one of the most memorable trash talk battles in UFC history.

McGregor predictably flung silver-tongued insults at Diaz from angles, some of which centered on his supposed thug persona and contradictory teaching tendencies. Diaz, however, chose to be more quiet, letting the brevity of his fewer words resonant stronger.

Perhaps the most heated reaction from either fighter came when Diaz accused the now bulked-up McGregor, who will go from 145 pounds all the way up to 170 for this fight, of being on steroids. His response made Diaz’ boxing coach Richard Perez believe that ‘The Notorious’ has something to hide, a stance he detailed during a recent interview with Submission Radio:

“Oh I sure do believe that, heck yeah. Some guys, they get busted – and to be honest with you, I know McGregor has got to be on some kind of steroids, he’s pretty big. And then all of a sudden [he’s] jumping to 170? Yeah there’s no way, cause I mean, he was supposed to be fighting at 155. So if you think about it, he was focusing on training at 155. He only had two weeks to go. And all of a sudden he’s gonna jump to 170? So no, there’s something going on. But still, I mean, we’re still gonna fight and that’s all there is to it.”

Expanding upon his reasons for his opinion, Perez said that McGregor’s reaction tipped his hand, as a competitor who was truly not on steroids would have laughed off the words rather than get defensive:

“When Nathan mentioned it to him he got defensive, he got angry. If somebody would have told me that I was fighting and he told me, you know, steroids, I would laugh and say, ‘yeah give me some more steroids, heck yeah, ah ha sure’. But he got defensive and mad, you know, “I’m not on steroids, I’m not on steroids”. You know, he was like trying to defend himself. So that, just his actions and the way he talked is…there’s something behind that.”

There’s no question whatsoever that McGregor has been packing on the pounds after draining himself to the point of exhaustion for his bouts at 145 pounds, but a most have attributed that to his move up a weight class to face dos Anjos.

A move up two full weight classes is understandably concerning to the MMA community as a whole, however. With performance-enhancing drugs one of the hottest topics in the UFC, do you believe Perez’ words hold weight, or he is simply hyping the already massive bout even further?

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