Joe Reflects on Conor McGregor's Jose Aldo KO, Reacts to His Muscle Gain

Connor Aldo, same thing. Like, it's like right to left, just straight across while he's coming forward. Makes his head spin. The fact that Aldo was so hell-bent on destroying Connor, he just was hell-bent, and Connor took advantage of that. Smart timing. I remember that. It was like, here we go, big fight. And then it was like, what? It's over immediately? Smart. It's like when Nate slapped somebody and then... It was genius. But this was a powerful punch. Look at that. Boom. Bang. Bang. First of all, you got to realize it's perfectly placed. Yeah, it's the placement. Accuracy's impeccable. Second of all, some people can just crack. And if you look at Connor's build, there's a lot of guys built like that that can fucking crack. I want to see it in slow motion still. He's got real wide shoulders. He's real fast. And he's got big hands. Like, all those things together. He's just got that freakish punch. There's just people that just have that kind of punch, man. Oh. I mean, that's just genius. Left leg gets hit afterwards, too. Yeah, he had a little bit of a cut over his right eyebrow. From that punch? From all those one hooky legs. Fall-down punch. Look how genius this is. Look at this. Bam. That's so genius. All the ones that came out with one punch. He was like, what are you faking punch? You know what's even more genius? He worked on the exact thing, and he mimicked what he was going to do in the green room. There's video of him. Of who? Connor. Connor pretending to be Aldo, and then him showing what he's going to do in counter. He does the exact move in the green room, knowing, in the dressing room, knowing that that's going to be the fight. Reminds me of Masvidal Askren. Right. Exactly. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Same thing. He practiced that step off to the side. Jesus. He was like, I'm trash. I mean, that really is when you factor in that it like it gave his career a total. Look on the left. That's Connor pretending to be Aldo, and this is him. Look, see? He's literally saying how it's going to go down. He's walking how Aldo does and both of them. I'm going to see both sides. Wait, let me see. Okay. Look at this. I mean, it's literally what he did. He practiced it. He predicted it was happening. He knew Aldo's movements. He had it timed down, and he's like much more light on the foot, and as Aldo moves forward, he times it perfectly. Bam. Look at that. Yeah, with the right. Dude, that left hand. Left hand. That left hand is a missile too. Damn. That left hand's a missile. Damn, that isn't the best screen on that. He's one of the most spectacular punchers in the history of the sport. He has some punch KO victories. Who? Connor. His one when he beat Eddie Alvarez. Show that. You want to see fucking genius striking with the hands? It's genius shit. Like, you can see Eddie Alvarez just got bewildered by it. I mean, the combinations he hit him with, while just subtly avoiding Alvarez's punches, genius shit. Genius. Dude, he was... I used to love rooting against him. He was such a good heel too. Cheer for Diaz. Oh, fuck that guy. He's the best heel ever. He got everybody into it. Yeah, he's the best heel ever. Fuck. We were like, fuck, I hope you get your comeuppance. I just never would. Dude, I'm telling you, when you watch this combination, it's fucking... Watch this. It's really sidekick to the body. I mean, he's hitting him with all kinds of shit, and he's so light on his feet. Like, this is prime Connor, in my opinion. Just so light on his feet. Look at these combinations. Watch this. Just getting just out of the way. Like, Eddie can't touch him. He hit him there though. But it's Connor just looking for the opening. But not enough to hurt him. Boom, that was it. That's one. Clips him. Needed the body. You know, people get all wrapped up in all the personality and the flash and the money and the Rolls Royces and everything. That motherfucker could fight. He could fight. And guys have beat him, but you got to be like an elite of the elite. You got to be like a Khabib or a Poirier. You got to be top of the food chain to beat him. Go towards the end of this. Yeah, I just want to see that. I just wanted the final combo. This is what I wanted. Because the finish of this fight is legendary. It's like in highlight reels all over the place. Look at that combo. Look at that combo. Show me that again. Watch this. Look at this. He just slides in on him. Boom, boom, boom. I mean, come on. He just slides just out of the way the punch lands four, four. The roof of those punches perfectly placed. Let me see one more time. Oh, his good combo. Look at this. Look at it. He actually touches his chin. He doesn't even flinch. One, two, three. The accuracy. Full punches. Four. And just swarms on him. And perfect placement, right? There's no extra windup that would have made a mess. Look at this. Bing, bing, bing, bang. Look at me. That's fucking... That's amazing. Oh my God. He goes from fine to cut up. Bro, that's an amazing combination. That's an amazing combination. What happened to him? Got fucking fights, man. Fights happened to him. And then also a shit ton of money. And then also some time out of the game while he was doing the Floyd Mayweather thing. You know, he trained for quite a while for Floyd Mayweather, which I'm sure Justin is doing boxing. If you're going to play, you know, you're going to train for a giant $100 million fight, you're most likely not going to do any MMA sparring or anything. You probably just did that for a while. And then you get that money. What's that Marvin Hagler quote about it's hard to get up at five in the morning and go running when you're sleeping in silk sheets? I think that's him now. He's super jacked. You saw it. It's got to take it. Wait. It took a very long time. It's going to take it. Wait. Take a visit. That's Connor. Yeah. Right now. Oh, dude, he looks like he's about to go WWF. Yeah. He looks like a bodybuilder. Well, that's 70s. It's a weird picture. Honestly, I mean, he's definitely jacked. But if looks to me like he's the middle of lifting. And if you if you see a guy's body in the middle of lifting, it's a little deceptive because everything see that's what he looks like now. He's still jacked. He still looks great. But when you're when you lift weights like as you do it, like those bodybuilders that go on stage before those big Mr. Olympia things, they all get pumped. Limpioid. That's a good start for it. Look at him. He looks good though. Whoa. He looks so old now. He looks different. Yeah. He's got that crazy beard. That beard's crazy. But he looks fit. Is he tucking up his shorts to let it come out? He's got a hog, I bet. Bet he's got a hog. He's got shorts. He looks like he's walking around on that shin. I wonder like what percentage healed it is. You got to feel like if a bone breaks in half like that and then you get like a metal plate to hold it in place and all these screws and shit. That's got to take a while.