McGegor really picked a part Dos Anjos in the press conference for UFC 197 with very little effort
Felt bad for Holm's and Tate, no where close to the level that Conor is at and looked like armatures in his shadow. They did very well and represented themselves excellent but on the same stage as as Conor it really took away from them. Would have been much better having their own press conference
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^ I think that Sage just plain gave up. Easy for me to say, but that seemed shocking that he tapped because that choke didn't seem like it was really sunk in. Like I say, easy for me watching on TV and not being elbowed however many times before that, but that seemed pretty weak. He'll bounce back though. 8 fights in and only 19 years of age, so he has a long future.
That was Sage's third fight since October for him inside the UFC, that's unheard of. Too much too soon probably. Kid has loads of skill and potential but panicked in that choke.
If Sage Northcutt didn't look like himself at UFC on FOX 18, he didn't feel like himself either. Northcutt, the 19-year-old prospect who suffered the first loss of his professional career on Saturday night in Newark when he tapped to an arm-triangle choke at the hands of Bryan Barberena, revealed Monday on The MMA Hour that he was forced to overcome a sudden bout with strep throat late during fight week.
"Two days before my fight, I had a real bad relapse of the strep throat and I had to go to the emergency ready clinic," Northcutt explained. "The UFC had to take me, then [a doctor] with the UFC had to write a prescription for more antibiotics, stuff like that. So I really couldn't explain how I felt out there. I felt really horrible."
Northcutt said the battle with strep throat was his third over the past four months, and his symptoms worsened as fight night drew closer.
"I've never felt like that ever before," Northcutt said. "Not just the breathing. It felt like I couldn't concentrate. I wasn't my normal self. I was having a real hard time hearing. Like, you can imagine if you fly on an airplane and your ears get stuffed up where they have to pop? It felt like that but times two or three, where I couldn't even hear my coaches, what they were saying. Even face-to-face, I couldn't hear anything.
"Coming up in the week for the UFC, I always try to keep a smile on my face and act like there's nothing going on, so that way no one would know that I was even sick or anything like that. The UFC knew I was sick because I had to go to the emergency clinic. But really, I was just laying down in bed and sleeping the whole time coming into the event, besides going out and doing the media that I got do to and had to do for the UFC."
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