Two best?
99% sure a couple months back we all watched Conor get circles shit talked around him, despite his written lines, by a guy who has been mumbling with gravel in his mouth for ten years....
I love Nate but he is not exactly Tony Robbins on the mic, and Conor had nothing for him.
Conor did dominate the shit talk against his last opponent before that, you know, the one who doesn't speak english....
I think Conor's pageantry and flamboyance is mistaken for orator skills, he is also brutally repetitive when he talks
Agreed. I think in many ways Conor's perpetual hype surrounding his verbal skills, is just that, hype that never had a solid foundation to it. He has just ripped off Floyd's 'money' persona and not really added anything else of note. He has been successfully marketed by Zuffa like no person ever before, including crazy Ronda. Zuffa were forcing him down people's throats before many hardcores had even heard of him. His Irish novelty gives him an extra edge, where even the accent makes the fairly mundane and repetitive things he says sound funny to idiots.
I'm not arguing that he and the Zuffa marketing team have captured the imaginations of people, but that has nothing to do with assessing his actual verbal ability, both in terms of psychological warfare and humor.
He's not awful and certainly he got under Aldo's skin. He pulls out a good rehearsed one-liner like 'balloon animals' every now and then as well. But to compare that to Chael's at times genuinely hilarious rehearsed material, or Chael's less impressive but still effective improvisation and Cruz's improvised wit and ability to mentally dissect anyone who challenges him is laughable. Even Rampage Jackson with his awful 'breaf stanks' routine still had a memorable moment with the note from his mom to Igor, so you would expect Conor to land a hit every now and then if that is all he tries to do.
