8 times now xD seems pretty flawed <| sep |> People cite the Mendes fight as proof that Edgar can take him down no problem . But they ignore the fact that Conor fought completely different in that fight than he did in the Alvarez one . In the Mendes fight he started with a flying knee which is as dumb as you can get when fighting a great wrestler . No flying knees against Eddie . In the chad fight he spent a lot of time standing in front of Chad trading punches , laughing , talking , taunting and all that bullshit . He would take 2 punches in order to throw one hard one . He kicked a lot . Everyone knows throwing kicks is an easy way to get taken down by a high quality wrestler . He didn ' t care . He fought like a crazy man . In the Eddie fight there was none of that . He used his length and kept his distance . No wild and stupid stuff . He did not let Eddie come near him before hitting him . In fact , and everyone has forgotten about this , he knocked Eddie down on his back for the second time without it being a counter . He just measured distance and knocked Eddie down on his back . Take a look was smaller than Aldo and couldn ' t hit him . Why do you think he will be able to get close to Conor who will tower over him in the cage ? He isn ' t the same fighter he was like 56 years ago when he was destroying legends like BJ . That ' s not an insult but reality . People point out that Edgar has fought bigger guys before in Maynard and Benson . But in those 4 fights he ' s 121 , hardly a compelling argument . It ' s not controversial to say that if Stephens can drop Edgar than Conor can . It ' s also not super controversial to say that McGregor is a lot better striker than Stephens . So frankly no pun intended I don ' t see what Edgar ' s path to victory is .