Ahead of UFC 200, MMA fans got a strange treat as the UFC reached out to King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge, and Ren and Stimpy’s John Kricfalusi, for a one-off cartoon video featuring their characters Hank Hill and George Liquor discussing the upcoming UFC 200 card, main evented by Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier 2.
It was really weird. It was really fun. It was really amusing. And it’s really, really funny in retrospect, given how things have shaken out for Jones since then.
The UFC 200 ad featuring Hank Hill shooting on Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier was really special, looking back on it.
The problem with it was that it was really, really, really random. When did Hank Hill become an MMA fan? Who even is George Liquor? Why did the UFC completely bury Daniel Cormier in the video by basically calling him a fatass? It was enjoyable…but none of it made any sense!
Enter Conor McGregor. In this world where combat sports promoters are drawing indecipherable links to prominent cartoon characters, the UFC featherweight champion is here to give us a simile for the ages.
Conor McGregor drew a hilarious, and somewhat accurate, comparison between Nate Diaz and a famous cartoon character. Photo by Sherdog.
According to McGregor, Diaz is the real-life version of The Simpsons’ Homer Simpson. That’s what he told reporters at a recent media event, at least! Here’s the quote:
“You ever see that episode of The Simpsons where Homer starts boxing? He’s competing, he’s just sitting in the ring and getting the head slapped off him. Boom, boom, boom. And then just the guy can’t punch him no more. And then Homer tips him and the guy falls over. That was similar. That’s the way Nate was in that fight. He was like Homer Simpson. He just took the shots until I couldn’t hit him no more. He’s gonna be no different this fight. He’s gonna just take the shots and hope that I can’t hit him no more. Only, I’m gonna be still there poking him in the face. So, I look forward to it.”
McGregor is referencing one of the all-time greatest episodes of The Simpsons! Mad cred, yo. Screen grab by IGN.
McGregor is pointing to season 8, episode 3 of The Simpsons, entitled “The Homer They Fall” where Homer visits the doctor only to discover that his skull has an extra layer of fluid inside the cranium that makes him impervious to concussions. From there, he becomes a successful boxer based on his ability to absorb punishment and winds up in a match with Drederick Tatum (a caricature of the troubled mid-1990s Mike Tyson).
The long and short of that analogy is that McGregor is basically saying that his loss to Diaz at UFC 196 was due to a lack of cardio and too much offensive output early in the fight. Is that true, though?
Diaz was pretty badly bloodied by McGregor in their first fight. But was that proof of a beatdown?
Well, not really. While McGregor did bust Diaz up quite a bit, he also absorbed plenty of punishment himself. It most certainly wasn’t a Homer Simpson-like fight, as Diaz got in plenty of his own offense, even if McGregor did take the first round.
We’ll see how the second fight goes this weekend, though!
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