Aldo's single advantage in the standup department against McGregor is speed. Conor has the edge in terms of timing and power. Maybe Aldo cracks him good n quick early on but that's doubtful considering Conor has shown to have a granite chin. Conor has also shown enough to make me believe that he can conserve his striking power into the later rounds and put Aldo away. If Aldo decides to stand with with Conor that's his fate and it should be obvious if you have been watching his recent fights in the past half decade and not strictly his catalog fights from the WEC days like OP. He's going to blow his wad trying to prove a point, (instead of win) arguably the same thing DC did against Jones. Conor waits for him to gas, 'stabbing' Aldo's tank with teeps along the way just like he did Chad and then like a deer in headlights very similar to Brandao and Mendes and Siever, Jose falls against the cage. We've seen it before, won't matter that it's Aldo this time, regardless of how many of his WEC fights you watched to convince yourself otherwise.
I've seen talk about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of Aldo's kicks over and over and how Aldo won't be able to do damage to southpaw Conor, citing the Florian fight as an example of what is In store. Then in Aldo's defense is the insistence that the hesitation to throw kicks was more of the result of a combination of being left stanced AND the threat of Florian's takedown which Conor doesn't posess obv and therefore nulls that argument. Something else to consider is the fact that Jose has broken his foot on TKZ's leg checks and similarly Conor has broken an opponent's foot with his checks. The man has decent leg check ability. I could also see the fight ending in injury with Conor's hand raised.
If Aldo is being smart and not letting his pride get in the way, he's posting training footage of him cracking bags with punches and kicks while devoting the majority of his prep sharpening his ground game and his jitz. Even then, controlling Conor on the mat considering his size and aforementioned strength will be hard.
I've seen talk about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of Aldo's kicks over and over and how Aldo won't be able to do damage to southpaw Conor, citing the Florian fight as an example of what is In store. Then in Aldo's defense is the insistence that the hesitation to throw kicks was more of the result of a combination of being left stanced AND the threat of Florian's takedown which Conor doesn't posess obv and therefore nulls that argument. Something else to consider is the fact that Jose has broken his foot on TKZ's leg checks and similarly Conor has broken an opponent's foot with his checks. The man has decent leg check ability. I could also see the fight ending in injury with Conor's hand raised.
If Aldo is being smart and not letting his pride get in the way, he's posting training footage of him cracking bags with punches and kicks while devoting the majority of his prep sharpening his ground game and his jitz. Even then, controlling Conor on the mat considering his size and aforementioned strength will be hard.
