Michael Chandler comes to Conor McGregor’s defense regarding UFC 329 conspiracy theories

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Michael Chandler comes to Conor McGregor’s defense regarding UFC 329 conspiracy theories

Almost immediately after the main event of UFC 329 ended 69 seconds after Conor McGregor injured his knee, conspiracy theories began to circulate on the Internet. The Irishman appeared to be injured in the opening seconds of the first round of his rematch with former featherweight champion and BMF title holder Max Holloway.

McGregor landed badly after jumping in the air with a kick from the bell in the first round. He fell on the canvas. Seconds later he fell again while throwing a kick. After falling for the third time after throwing a punch, the fight was finally stopped.

These plots ranged from McGregor entering the fight representing “The Notorious” lying. On Thursday, Michael Chandler defended McGregor against online allegations.

“There’s a lot of speculation going on out there. A lot of people are disappointed with how the fight went,” Chandler said in an Instagram video posted Monday. “A lot of conspiracy theories going on out there. I understand that people are upset. I understand that people are upset about this big comeback that everyone wanted to see, the big return that everyone wanted to be excited about. We miss the fact that we are in the opposite game when we push our bodies to the limits, many times we throw them or take too much power.

“A guy like Conor, who comes out in the first three seconds, jumps across the cage, turns his body, throws a kick, weird ground, leg ropes, then throws another kick, leg tied, throws a punch, leg ropes. And everybody’s trying to figure out, ‘Hey, Conor was hurt before everybody showed up to fight, did Condwink just show up to fight? He doesn’t care who he hurts in this process?’

“I would be totally surprised, like the most surprised person in the world, if Conor just showed up with a paycheck, plugged in, and said, ‘I don’t care. I’ll give you guys one minute, shave my head into a mohawk, show up, make introductions, and just bow out after one minute.’

“”Say what you want about Conor. Conor’s faults have been well documented, Conor’s shortcomings have been well documented over the past 15 years in this sport, but one thing is missing, he is not a quitter. One thing is not a bamboozler. He’ll make you look left when he’s actually doing something right here and there to build fights and build stories and make you think and feel something, but he’s not the type of guy that’s going to show up in a fight injured and bow out within a minute,” Chandler said.

“The UFC is not the type of organization that’s going to have conversations behind closed doors and say, ‘Hey, it’s all good, we’re going to get everybody tuned into this Paramount broadcast, and then you’re going to be out for a minute.’ That’s just not what they do. It’s not the way the business works, but I understand the speculation, and I understand the conspiracy theories, and I understand that everybody is drawing straws right now, looking to check on the Internet, showing us going down, going back, looking at a bunch of different angles of how Connor tripped over his shoes or was going into some rehab clinic at the hospital, or was walking through the hospital.”

Many people have been speculating as to why McGregor would use such a dangerous, low percentage move to start a fight. For Chandler, who has trained to face McGregor and also trained against him at Ultimate Fighter, the answer is simple.

“I’ve had a lot of people say, ‘Man, why did Conor do that? He came out like an idiot, jumped across the cage, threw a kick.’ “Conor always does that,” Chandler said. “Every single fight, when I was training to fight him, I expected within the first five minutes some kind of spinning wheel kick, some kind of flying knee, some kind of flying Superman punch. He did a Superman punch against Cowboy Cerrone within the first five seconds. He’s done a lot of fights (where) he’s done it within the first five seconds, starting to spin the wheel back. foot, immediately throwing something crazy to make the guy think and remember that, ‘Hey, you’re in the octagon with Conor McGregor, and Conor McGregor is a great guy.’ That’s what he tried to establish in the beginning.

“All that doubt and fear that you brought into this thing because I threw a lot of venom at you in pre-fight interviews, now you’re stuck in the octagon with me, and now here comes the crazy stuff. Conor always starts fights like that. So to those who say, ‘Why would he do that?’ Well, he did it because he always does that.”