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He has been tapped by sambo fighters before. The last time Conor faced a sambist he ended up screaming in agony and was lucky his opponent didn't go full Palhares on him for all the shit he's talking.
While everyone observed that Conor has major holes in his grappling I think Conor now has the basic skills to survive against conventional BJJ, but he can't deal with what the more diversified grappling that Eastern European sambists like Khabib bring to the table. Like Khabib said, if sambo was easy it would be called BJJ.
Conor can set up a 300k worth camp full of BJJ experts but who can he bring to prepare himself for Khabib? Dillon Danis was accused of treason by Nate, how do you think a grappler from Caucasus would be viewed if he helped Conor to beat the local hero Khabib? Will Conor buy bear cubs and wrestle with them to imitate Khabib's movement? There's nothing he can do other than pray that he lands some lucky shot while Khabib rushes in, but unfortunately from what we have seen now Khabib has a solid chin. He's also a huge LW.
Unfortunately Conor will be protected from Khabib as long as the UFC exists, but if he had the balls to even try to clean out everyone around his weight (like GSP, Fedor, Jones and Anderson did), he would have a huge problem with Khabib. I just can't see a way he wins this fight.
While everyone observed that Conor has major holes in his grappling I think Conor now has the basic skills to survive against conventional BJJ, but he can't deal with what the more diversified grappling that Eastern European sambists like Khabib bring to the table. Like Khabib said, if sambo was easy it would be called BJJ.
Conor can set up a 300k worth camp full of BJJ experts but who can he bring to prepare himself for Khabib? Dillon Danis was accused of treason by Nate, how do you think a grappler from Caucasus would be viewed if he helped Conor to beat the local hero Khabib? Will Conor buy bear cubs and wrestle with them to imitate Khabib's movement? There's nothing he can do other than pray that he lands some lucky shot while Khabib rushes in, but unfortunately from what we have seen now Khabib has a solid chin. He's also a huge LW.
Unfortunately Conor will be protected from Khabib as long as the UFC exists, but if he had the balls to even try to clean out everyone around his weight (like GSP, Fedor, Jones and Anderson did), he would have a huge problem with Khabib. I just can't see a way he wins this fight.