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The UFC clearly wants to market Conor to the naive casuals as someone who is unbeatable around his weight. That's the main reason why they tried to paint a 155 lbs division high level gatekeeper Nate Diaz as a 200 lbs monster.
The problem is that there's a huge inconvenience to this story as there's a certain guy in this 155 division that Conor can't possibly beat no matter what. It's pretty much the same problem they had with Ronda where Cyborg was a major inconvenience to the entire story.
The first stage is denial and right now UFC is acting as if Khabib doesn't even exist. They're telling us that there are solid fights for Conor at 155 like the champ Alvarez or RDA or Cowboy or Pettis but they never even mention Khabib.
The next stage will be anger where they will have Joe Rogan subtly attacking Khabib's ethnic background just like they forced him to make those penis jokes about Cyborg.
The final stage of acceptance will happen when Khabib cleans out the division and beats everyone not named Conor (because Conor will avoid him like plague) and they'll just have to find some weak excuses like "he's probably on steroids because he's from Russia he can make 145 without them" and talk about money fights and red panty nights and why Conor should fight Amir Khan in some hybrid rules fight but trust me Conor vs Khabib fight is never going to happen.
The problem is that there's a huge inconvenience to this story as there's a certain guy in this 155 division that Conor can't possibly beat no matter what. It's pretty much the same problem they had with Ronda where Cyborg was a major inconvenience to the entire story.
The first stage is denial and right now UFC is acting as if Khabib doesn't even exist. They're telling us that there are solid fights for Conor at 155 like the champ Alvarez or RDA or Cowboy or Pettis but they never even mention Khabib.
The next stage will be anger where they will have Joe Rogan subtly attacking Khabib's ethnic background just like they forced him to make those penis jokes about Cyborg.
The final stage of acceptance will happen when Khabib cleans out the division and beats everyone not named Conor (because Conor will avoid him like plague) and they'll just have to find some weak excuses like "he's probably on steroids because he's from Russia he can make 145 without them" and talk about money fights and red panty nights and why Conor should fight Amir Khan in some hybrid rules fight but trust me Conor vs Khabib fight is never going to happen.
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