I read something recently and it got me thinking about greatness in another way. Not as it exists in the present, or as it will exist in the future, but the ways in which we came to contextualize greatness.
Month: October 2018
Begrudging Greatness: Conor McGregor and the Total Package
No one, truly in earnest, has ever put together the whole package in MMA. There have been truly great fighters, there have been fighters who had compelling personalities, and there have been fighters who could talk mountains and mountains of shit, but Conor is the first who has a chance to do it all, and if he beats Khabib on Saturday, he'll probably have done it.
