Spoiler...........Mcgregor vs Mendes...............

[Keith Kavanagh]

Here's the thing about grappling. You can go for things all day. You don't really pay the price if you fail other than maybe getting reversed or passed. In MMA if you go for something and fail, you eat punches. So Conor COULD have gone for a flower sweep. But had he failed, he could have also ended up with his arm stuck while eating hammer fists.

More difficult to pull off with punches involved, even more difficult when you have someone with the pressure of Chad Mendes on top of you combined with said punches.

[Brent Smith]

Has Conor ever had the reputation of having a nasty guard game? The guy weathered the storm, scrambled up when he had a chance, and got the TKO. There are plenty of brown and black belts in the UFC that are not very active off their backs, so it seems a little unfair to question his rank.

I'm only a purple belt and have never fought MMA so I'm not going to judge or act like I know what he should be doing.

BJ Penn used that exact strategy.