so basically to summarize:
1) Mcgregor only beat Max Holloway cause he was an up and comer fighter. Holloway would beat Mcgregor if they fought today.
2) Mcgregor only beat Mendes cause Mendes took the fight on two weeks notice
3) Mcgregor only beat Aldo because Aldo was projecting downwards anyway
4) Mcgregor only beat Alvarez cause he was the worst 155 champ in the history of the ufc
5) Mcgregor should have lost the second fight to Diaz
Gotcha, waiting for the so called credit you give Mcgregor.
That's not what i said at all. McGregor vs Holloway may go the same way again but ANYONE who follows MMA knows Holloway is far different now than he was at 21, the Swanson fights are obvious evidence. 21 is CRAZY young in MMA. It's the same reason I don't consider McGregors loss to Duffy all that relevant. Beating Holloway at that time, and not in a landslide by any means, wasn't a top notch win. Holloway had to beat everyone in the top 7 other than Mendes (counldn't fight suspended) and Edgar (timing didn't work out in terms of #1 contender status) in Lamas, Swanson, Pettis, Stephens, Oliviera before a title shot. McGregor didn't have to fight a single one of those guys before getting a shot against Aldo and then Mendes for the interim.
I'd take McGregor to beat Mendes again but that's not the point. He got an interim title shot against a guy with two weeks notice after beating Denis ****ing Siver. There is literally no precedence in the history of modern MMA of guy fighting a washed up journey man and getting a title shot. Even Poirer and Brandano are well below the elites and at the time Holloway was still a nobody. He had beaten NOBODY of note and got a title shot. NOBODY. When talking about styles look how Mendes was able to push Aldo to the brink but gets KO'd by Edgar who couldn't push Aldo nearly as much, that's why a guy is supposed to prove himself against multiple top end guys. Styles make fights.
Aldo was projecting downwards but it's still a massive victory, in fact it's why i called him a GREAT FIGHTER. But the facts are clear Aldo had just been in a devastating bout and barely came out ahead and that was after multiple fights in which he wasn't the same dominate fighter. In the history of MMA Aldo has reigned atop his division longer than anyone else and that's because it's crazy hard to fight the best of the best that long, the body doesn't hold up. Hell even McGregor said "the chin doesn't recover". Everyone knew Aldo was getting vulnerable. Still a massive victory but it's crazy that he didn't get a rematch.
I never said Alvarez was the worst champ in the history of the division, although a VERY strong argument can be made that he is. Go to an MMA forum and discuss you won't find a single person who thinks Alvarez is close to Ferguson or Khabib, this wasn't even a debate while Alvarez was champ. He got a good shot in on Dos Anjos who before that looked like the better fighter, it happens all the time. In fact both Ferguson and Khabib looked more dominant against Dos Anjos in dismantling him. Alvarez is a quality win but he's not the best of the division, in fact his 3 fight win streak before facing McGregor included two split decision victories against Pettis and Melendez, both of whom have 4 losses in their last 5 fights, and that was preceded by a loss to Cerrone. Pettis is a great example of an excellent striker who looked all world until he had to fight a lot of great opponents, was figured out and stylistically unable to adapt to different fighters.
I didn't say he should have lost the second fight i said the decision was heavily debatable and essentially a coin flip. It wasn't a dominate or unanimous victory and for a guy who is supposedly some kind of GOAT candidate he really should have been able to dominate a guy people like Dos Anjos destroyed.
I actually watch all the fights and follow the sport, it's pretty clear that McGregor hasn't "beaten everybody" but rather has a few impressive victories against favourable stylistic matchups. A great fighter sure but he's proven far less than many others in the sport and arguably within his division. It's a fact, doesn't mean he may not have beaten all those guys but you can't just assume he would have either.