![]() ![]() Much like Brady bouncing back from a loss in a Super Bowl and then winning the very next year, Chopra saw McGregor begin his climb back from defeat with that same kind of ferocity. ![]() It gives you more storytelling opportunities than just another victory. I have to say for the filmmaking, for the storytelling, losing - I don’t want to say it’s better but it’s more interesting. “I was at both of the Poirier fights, and we had a vision, and I’ve been through this before with Tom Brady where you think he’s going to win the Super Bowl and he doesn’t. You go into the fights thinking of course he’s going to win these fights. You get on the ride and it’s like ‘he’s training really hard, he’s looking really good’ and you’re listening to all the trainers telling you ‘he’s never been in better shape in his life, his mind is so right’ and all this stuff. What actually happened was McGregor falling to Poirier in back-to-back fights with the last bout ending with that devastating injury. Like all athletes competing in professional sports, McGregor faces the same possible outcomes with success or failure but Chopra admits he got drawn into the idea that he was about to witness the Irish superstar make an ascension back to greatness. “You figure stuff out in the edit room but that was just one of several dramatic things that happened. That hospital scene, which happens really at the end is so powerful and so intimate and so interesting but it’s like how did we get here? “There’s a plan, there’s an outline or a vision, and then there’s what you capture, what actually happens, what’s in the can, the stuff that’s strongest. ![]() “It’s documentary filmmaking 101,” Chopra explained. Chopra admits he never could have predicted how things would play out when he first started following McGregor after his boxing match against Floyd Mayweather and his subsequent return to the UFC in his fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov. He admits that he wasn’t necessarily the biggest fight fan but there was something utterly fascinating about McGregor that got him interested in the project. You’re like wow, this is a unique guy.”Ĭhopra, who is the co-founder of Religion of Sports and has done past documentaries such as Man in the Arena: Tom Brady and Shut Up and Dribble, which focused on LeBron James, spent the better part of the past three years developing this new documentary on McGregor. We’ve all seen his ankle snap and there’s another scene where he’s trying to convince the doctor ‘no, I’ll be fine, give me a couple of months.’ He’s already planning his comeback, his next fight. “You see that in that crazy hospital scene. He’s instantly analyzing and ready for the next fight. Losing is definitely part of the journey. ![]() “He’s like you don’t fight this much and not lose. “One of the things that’s interesting about Conor, when he loses and he’s lost a couple of fights in the past few years, everyone else freaks out - he very much doesn’t,” Gotham Chopra, director behind the new Netflix documentary McGregor Forever told MMA Fighting. Instead, he was telling his physicians about his eventual return to fighting. Conor McGregor was speaking to his doctors just hours removed from surgery after suffering a gruesome injury when his leg snapped at the end of the first round in his fight against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264.Īs recovery and rehabilitation plans were being discussed, the former two-division UFC champion wasn’t necessarily thinking about how long it would take him to stand on two legs again and he wasn’t mired in defeat after a second straight loss to Poirier. ![]()
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