​Din Thomas thinks Conor McGregor made a conscious decision to quit at UFC 329.McGregor (22-7 MMA, 10-5 UFC) appeared to have torn his ACL just 69 seconds into his rematch against Max Holloway (28-9 MMA, 24-9 UFC) in this past Saturday’s main event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. He is set to undergo surgery to repair his right knee.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementMcGregor injured his knee after the first jumping switch kick he threw and couldn’t stay up after falling down multiple times. McGregor tore his ACL in the first fight against Holloway in 2013 and fought through it to earn the unanimous decision win. Thomas said the old McGregor would have tried to power through this injury, too.”I don’t think he really even wanted to fight,” Thomas said on “Deep Waters.” “I don’t think he wanted to fight, man. I think he is, in a way, playing on this sympathy card from some people. Obviously a lot of people are making fun of him and saying this, that and the third to him, but there is a little bit of sympathy. It sucks to go out like that, but at the end of the day, he tore his knee in the first fight and still fought. In this one, to me, as soon as he tore it, he dropped down, gets up, stumbles around, then he starts looking at the ref like, ‘I can’t do this no more.'”But think of all the other greats. The spirit in the past, he fought through it, and this isn’t me making this up. This is what he told us. He told us he was going to have the greatest comeback. He told us he didn’t go nowhere. He said these things. But when it got tough, he tore his leg, he wanted out. He wanted out! What did Carlos Ulberg do? What did Thiago Santos do? He tore both of his knees against Jon Jones, he fought threw it. He didn’t look for a way out. Official tears. … That’s my point: He didn’t even try.”Thomas compared McGregor’s injury to Tom Aspinall blowing out his knee just 15 seconds into his fight against Curtis Blaydes in July 2022, but he explains why it’s not the same.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement”The only other comparison I would also make is Tom Aspinall against Curtis Blaydes the first fight, but he couldn’t walk out,” Thomas said. “They had to carry him out. They put a splint on his leg, and he couldn’t walk out, but Conor walked out on his own. All I’m saying is, for a guy who said he was going to give us something great, he didn’t deliver. He didn’t even try.”For a guy who said, ‘Greatest comeback ever, I didn’t go nowhere,’ he did not even try. Could he have fought? He didn’t even try.”This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Analyst declares Conor McGregor ‘didn’t even try’ after suffering UFC 329 injury