MMA Scribbles Newsletter — Issue #10 Post- #UFC264

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

— Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias”

If you watch the above image, you’ll see that McGregor’s leg, just above the ankle is clearly broken. The pre-fight press conference had a lot of folks wondering what’s going on with McGregor? His trash talk game used to be better than what we saw last week, even Dustin Poirier said it at that press conference.

Is this the end for McGregor?

He’s a young man, so probably not.

But he seems to be at a point where he can focus on evolving as a martial artist or evolving the image of the icon that McGregor has become.

He had his moments in that fight, just like the second one but the man that focused on his craft as a martial artist won both times. If the leg kicks being checked are what did it as Poirier said to Rogan in the cage after the fight that can still be credited to training and conditioning on…