The Daniel Cormier Show - DC REACTS to BRUTAL Conor McGregor injury vs. Max Holloway, CRAZY Paddy Pimblett win

Max Holloway defeated Conor McGregor by TKO in the first round at UFC 329 in one of the BIGGEST LETDOWNS in UFC history, after Conor suffered what is likely a torn ACL. DC reacts to McGregor's devastating injury and if he will ever bounce back to compete in the UFC again. Cormier also gives his take on Paddy Pimblett's INSANE SUBMISSION WIN over Benoit Saint-Denis by a darce choke and what this means for his superstardom. And don't miss DC talk Gable Stevenson's KO win in his debut, the wild ending between King Green and McKinney, what's next for Max, and so much more! #Volume

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All right, King Green versus Terrece McKinney, that fight is
ending in the first round. I don't I'm not telling
you who wins, but I believe that is a one
round fight. Then when you get to the Cole main event,
you got Patty Pimlet and Ben was Sandni.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I don't know who wins.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
But I do believe that whoever wins this fight is
gonna be over around and a half. So in the
later parts of the fight, someone's going to finish this fight.
And in the main event, Connor McGregor versus Max Holloway too,
I'm choosing that one by decision.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
So again, McKinney versus.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Green, one round, over around and a half for the
co main event, but we will get a finished I
don't know what type of finished.

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And in the main event.

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We just finished UFC three twenty nine and uh, obviously
anybody knows that we had the ultimate letdown. Connor McGregor

(02:41):
was finished by Max Holloway by TKO in a minute
of nine seconds due to injury. Then come here due
to injury. It was not good. What did you think
about the fight? He real sad, aren't you? My man

(03:01):
was let down. I think that everybody had the same feeling.
You can go hip hop. I think everybody had the
same feeling as Dan. I think when there's expectation, you
can be let down in levels that you don't know
that that you can really reach. And I think today
was one of those moments where we were let down

(03:22):
at a level that we didn't think we can get
let down. At the fight starts, Connor does this running
jumping kick. As he lands, you could see his nego
torn aco and he tries to throw a few more times.
But there's no fighting on one leg, especially against a

(03:45):
guy like Max Holloway. It's just impossible. It will not work.
There's a number of things that I want to discuss
in regards to this injury. One, Yeah, I think we
need to be careful when we judge because there have
been times where people have done crazy things to start

(04:08):
fights and they've worked, and we praised the athlete as
if there's some genius.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
So that was one of those times that it didn't work.
I remember for Richie over Doom.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Just run across the afghon and superkick and Travis Brown
like he was on the game Double Dragon. Clearly, George
Masvedal did it to Ben Ascrit and we all.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Praised him for that. I think we need to be
careful when we have.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
A big opinion on something that happens, because sure everybody's
mad it went sideways, but had Connor landed that everybody
would praise.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Him for what he did.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Secondly, I can tell you as a person that has
spent time in the octagon in big fights, that then
you get inside of a fight is crazy. You can
watch this thing at home, you can do other sports,

(05:11):
but there's no feeling like walking through a crowd of
twenty thousand people into an octagon where you are locked
in there with another human being that wants to take
you out. There is nothing like that. I believe that
mixed martial arts, boxing combat sports provides an arena that

(05:36):
is unmatched by anything else in the world because of
how dire the consequences are to every action you make
inside of the ocata. It can also be a situation
where you are so filled with energy that you are
propelled to do something that may not be beneficient. I
believe that also played a part in Coma Bregor's action

(05:57):
today to start to fight. Remember, I have felt energy,
but I have never felt energy like Connor McGregor. Even
when John Jones and I fought. The energy in the
building does not match the energy in a building when
Connor fights.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's just the truth.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
I want to be honest with myself and be honest
with you, so that energy, after being away from for
five years may tell you do something great.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
People expected. It ultimately led to the injury.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Hats off to Max Holloway because Max recognized he was hurt.
He was the one that told the referee to stop
the fight because he could see that Connor's knee was blown.
He's a stund man, and this dude was ready and
prepared to win this fight and make things right between
him and Connor McGregor. You know what, Max is one

(06:49):
of my good friends. I'm happy that he ultimately got
a victory. I know though, that he will not be
satisfied with that because Max Holloway wont to compete tonight.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
He did not get that opportunity.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
UFC three nine was more disappointing to me than tom
Asminal cyro Gun because at least in that fight, we
saw them get after it a little bit and we
gain an idea of what a fight between those two
guys look like. Tonight, we did not get that with
Condor McGregor and Max Holloway. Hopefully Condor's not hurt too
bad and hopefully Max gets an opportunity to compete very soon.

(07:27):
The question now becomes, does Condor McGregor have it in
him to come back? That is a big ass, guys.
It's a big of us to ask Connor McGregor if
his knee is blown out, to go through another year
of rehab, another year of the sacrifices, the pain that
it takes to work yourself back to a professional mixed

(07:49):
martial artist, especially when you have the money that Conda
McGregor has. That's a big ass And if you ask
me truthfully, I am more likely to tell you that
it's not gonna happen than it will happen. He's very

(08:10):
unique and I think the whole week showed that he's
the biggest thought that we have, and the whole week
showed that. I just wonder if he even does try
to come back once again, do people even buy into
it again and say they want to see Connor McGregor
go at it one more time. It really sucks because

(08:33):
the card itself was insane. Patty Pimlet had a sick performance.
Submitted Ben was something in the first exchange insane dar
show Spider Monkey wrapped all around his body.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Put Ben was something need to sleep.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
The energy that Patty brought, honestly is something that begs
the UFC insanely happy, makes the fans.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
That they love that kid. Guys.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
People were going crazy in here as Patty Pimlin walked
out and as Patty Pimlet left the octagon. He's a
stud and he deserves a big fight after what he
did tonight. Mario Bautista got a great victory tonight over
Corey Sanagan sucks Corus and Hagen got hurt in the fight.
Brandon Royval had a sick win over Lonnie Kavanaugh. The

(09:27):
pressure that he fought with in order to wear down
this young stud in Kavanaugh and get a victory was insane.
This dude, Royval relied on all of his experience to
allow him to come back into this fight and get
the job done.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
King Green beat Terrence McKinney. YO.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
I think that might have been one of the craziest
comebacks I've ever seen my entire life. He won about
thirty seconds of that whole fight, and the only thirty
seconds he won was the final thirty seconds, and he
got the victory. Robert Winaker successfully moved up to two
five and knocked out Nakeitha Kriloff.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Gable Steveson had an amazing debut.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
It felt like we watched the guy that at some
point will compete for UFC championships and going and watching
some of his post fight stuff and seeing him go
Bow Nickel, going at Josh Hokit. It tells me that
he will have options for fights because people are talking

(10:34):
about him, and the more that he does well, the
more people start to talk on him and have an
opinion on what he should or should not do. Tonight,
what was most impressive by Gabel was he didn't even
wrest He struggled the guy and he knocked him out cold.
Adrian Yanyez put Cody garber At to sleep. Luke Riley

(10:56):
had a sick performance tonight. Gets Kay Kamaka Wong Tong
beat Tracy Cortes Damian Pinas his dude's got some real power.
He knocked out a real kickboxer and says our Almeida
Sarry Boschwatz stayed undefeated. Gondra, what a beautiful left hook knockout.

(11:18):
This dude remind me of Joe Frasier. Level change bang
Nasty Nasty by Gondre and Ales. Alessandro Costa had a
submission to start to night. Tonight showed that a great
night of fights can be overshadowed by a disappointing main event.
But let's not lose sight of what we saw tonight,

(11:41):
a whole bunch of elite athletes putting on performances of
their lives.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
It was amazing.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
My total wireless performance at the night has to go
to Patty Pimblin in the biggest spot of his life.
While the Justin GeTe fight for in Trim title was big,
this was bigger. He put Ben was Sanzanita sleep. It
was tremendous to and for that he is going to
be my total wireless Fighter of the night. Congratulations to
Patty Pevalin and all the other winners on the car tonight,

(12:08):
including the one and only blessed Max Holloway. Until next time,
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at DC's got a YouTube channel and I'm taking you behind.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
The scenes like this at the UFC.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
And don't forget, I'm gonna go talk to Max Holloway's
team and see what they thought about the stoppage.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Until next time, Peace,