Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-07-11, great fight between Conor McGregor and Chad Mendes: it is close to get four stars (UFC Performance of the Night).Chad Mendes entered this fight with a professional mma record of 17-2-0 (53% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.4 featherweight in the world. The only man who stopped him twice was the #1 Ufc fw champion Jose Aldo: in 2012 (=Aldo vs Mendes) and in 2014 (=Aldo vs Mendes 2). After the second loss he came back to win beating Ricardo Lamas (=Mendes vs Lamas).
His opponent, Conor McGregor, has the same record of 17-2-0 (but with 94% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.6 in the same weight class. He suffered his last defeat in 2010 when he faced Joseph Duffy, but since then he has collected 13 consecutive victories (five in the Ufc) beating Dennis Siver in his last bout (=McGregor vs Siver). McGregor vs Mendes, main event of Ufc 189, is valid for the Ufc interim featherweight title (Mendes replaces Jose Aldo who has forced to withdraw from the bout due to an injury). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Event: UFC 189: Mendes vs Mcgregor
Date: 2015-07-11
Where: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Division: featherweight (145 lbs, 66 kg)
Title: interim UFC Featherweight Championship
UFC 189 fight card (main and best fights):
Chad Mendes vs Conor McGregor
Robbie Lawler vs Rory MacDonald 2
Dennis Bermudez vs Jeremy Stephens
Gunnar Nelson vs Brandon Thatch
Brad Pickett vs Thomas Almeida
Matt Brown vs Tim Means
Mendes’ next fight: Frankie Edgar vs Chad Mendes
McGregor’s next fight: Jose Aldo vs Conor McGregor
Official video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alvsnk3PDTg
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Before the fight I was thinking McGregor didn’t deserve the title shot because he had never faced a top10 fighter but in this bout he shows he is a great warrior with also a good defense on the ground. Let’s see the super-fight against Jose Aldo!!!
All the best fights, I’m sorry but if you think this is a better fight than Lawler vs MacDonald then I don’t know what to tell you other than get your eyesight checked. Lawler vs MacDonald is in the top 5 greatest MMA fights of all time.
Hi “dazy juno”, we have seen both fights two or three times and we think that the first two rounds of Lawler vs MacDonald 2 were pretty boring (two stars), the third one was good just for the last 30 seconds, while the fourth and the finish were close to get four stars. So the average of all the rounds is not very high while in the fight McGregor vs Mendes we have seen two very entertaining rounds out of two and this is why we have chosen this bout as the best of the week.
Anyway…you know that every user can rate the fights in a different way and we are happy to see that sometimes a lot of fans rated other bouts in a different way, because we don’t have only our mma ranking, but there is also the users’ mma ranking in which we will add the fight Lawler vs MacDonald 2 as one of the best of the year!
Thanks for the comment and for your rating!
Premature stoppage first of all! Chad was covered up and could’ve sustained for the remaining 3 seconds of the round. The ref did not need to intervene. Secondly Chad had two weeks to train lets not throw that out. A full training camp is significant to a fight no matter who you are. Even so chad was imposing his will but gassed out. They need to have a rematch.
Ref’s job is not to say ‘oh there’s only a few seconds left, I’ll let him get beaten up a little more so he can make it into the next round’. Doesn’t matter if there’s a single second left, if a guy is hurt and not fighting back OR defending himself intelligently (Chad turtled, and that’s not an intelligent defence – ref’s have to step in when that happens), the ref’s job is to stop the fight. LOL at “the ref did not need to intervene” hahahaha you have NO IDEA what the ref’s job is.
In my 72 years, I’ve seen a lot of fights and I have been in more than my share. But, the punishment Connor took and then come back to knock out Mendes, is one for the books of all time great fighting. It was non-stop fierce combat.