How will McGregor deal with the jab of Khabib?

[Massapiece]

Conor was really off. I was expecting a much more competitive fight. I bet it will be a lot more competitive in the rematch.

Keep holding onto that one shot Khabib landed. If Conor landed half the shots Khabib sid he wouldve Ko'D him

Khabib didnt land just 1 shot. He beat Conor every where. Conor didnt look off, that was par for the course. Every striker has looked like that against Khabib.

 

[YellowBanenoo]

conor disappointed me

 

[Broccoli Cake]

@Massapiece Conor is looking down and moving backwards. Watch the movements of his body carefully because he isn't getting ready to strike with his left hand, he's getting ready to react to a takedown attempt by hopping backwards.

 

[Massapiece]

That’s true. The vast majority of mma fighters don’t have very good boxing. But that still doesn’t take away from conors skill. He way he slips and counters, how he makes opponents miss by such a smalll margin, that shit is not easy. Aldo tried it many times against Stephens but if I remember correctly he didn’t land it even once. It’s a big risk to take sometimes if done at the wrong time or you’re too close.

Conor’s control of distance is amazing. Even against Floyd, early on he looked good. Floyd ended up destroying him bad, but for a guy that was supposed to get slapped up immediately, he did well. I’ll take sugar rays word over anybody else. A boxer of his caliber saying Conor did good? Tyson said it, too. They were all surprised and impressed Conor could do what he did even though he got outclassed BAD eventually. While fresh, Conor is a monster. If he put all of his time into pure boxing he could do well.

World champ? I doubt that. But dangerous for anybody. His countering is high level. People talk about Anderson’s boxing but it’s a joke compared to Conor’s. Silva without his kicks and knees isn’t shit. Notice he’s relied on his hands more than anything lately because he’s worried about his leg, notice how he doesn’t look like anything special using his hands only. Notice his most significant shots since he leg break we’re actually kicks and knees.

His hands are overrated as fuck. Conor is quite possibly the best boxer we’ve seen in mma. Certainly the most dangerous puncher we’ve seen. People will say I’m nuthugging, but I’m just being honest. Conor may be an asshole sometimes. But as a fighter he’s one of the best in the world, with some of the most effective striking/boxing we’ve seen in this sport.

Another thing - Nate’s boxing isn’t exactly bad. Its very effective. That’s what matters. It doesn’t look nice, but it works. Like Khabib’s striking. It’s ugly, but it’s effective and that’s what matters. Conor’s striking looks crisp and smooth, and it’s extremely effective. His left is like RJJ’s straight right or left hook. Roy rarely jabbed, he lead with his left hook and it almost always landed. Everybody knew what his strengths were, they knew what his best weapons were, yet they couldn’t avoid it, much like people can’t avoid Conor’s left. That’s skill right there. Conor is an exceptional striker.

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Silva is a much better striker than Conor... Nick Diaz has much better boxing than Conor as well. Nick actually knows how to work the head and body up and down with a variety of tempos. Its beautiful to watch him throw a fast hard shot mid combo and then slow the speed of his shots again. Conor is a bit over rated, hes done well against much smaller men who have to step into his strikes to get their strikes off.

 

[Massapiece]

@Massapiece Conor is looking down and moving backwards. Watch the movements of his body carefully because he isn't getting ready to strike with his left hand, he's getting ready to react to a takedown attempt by hopping backwards.

Conor never looks down, he tilts his head to brace. His eyes stay on Khabib the entire sequence. Watch it from the angle they showed on the live fight, you could see it much more clearly. His left hand tries to finish the punch.

 

[ANIM4L]

Not at all... khabib feinted a jab and conor steps back and looks to throw his patented left hand counter. He even paws with the lead hand to gauge the distance just as he did with Aldo and Alvarez. Khabib just beat him to the mark as ive stated. Conor never thought about stopping a takedown, he was thinking about landing a left on Khabibs chin.

LOL they never learn. Conor doesnt square up and drop his center of gravity to sprawl, hands arent even in position.

 

[CodeBreaker]

@Massapiece Conor is looking down and moving backwards. Watch the movements of his body carefully because he isn't getting ready to strike with his left hand, he's getting ready to react to a takedown attempt by hopping backwards.

The threat of a takedown negated his slip counter Left straights.

 

[Massapiece]

The threat of a takedown negated his slip counter Left straights.

Conor never even looks to stop a takedown... he knows Khabib is punching here, he just doesnt anticipate Khabibs speed. Here it is from the angle they showed live.
He looks for his step back counter left and gets cracked.

 

[Flokk]

How many times have we seen good strikers look terrible against good grapplers?

Conor has never faced a guy like Khabib (not even close) but Khabib has ground numerous tough strikers to paste. Conor quits before most of those guys.

 

[legedema]

this thread is just so great , where are all the nuthuggers making jokes about Khabibs striking ?
shit like ''Conor will make it look so easy''

yes , it was easy for Khabib and it was a fucked up night for Conor.
time to switch sides , your boy left you all alone '' its just business''

 

[MayhemMonkey]

How did that work out?

honestly dude stop quoting me. I have zero interest in debating someone that doesnt take in information

oh and he won the striking exchanges other than khabib landing one big strike

 

[MayhemMonkey]

Funniest thing is, thats exactly what happened. Ive had noobs arguing with me since saturday night that Conor was changing levels to sprawl in this sequence... hes not about to sprawl at all, hes looking for his step back counter left but Khabib just beats him to the spot. Great call.

I argued with one too. Khabib knew his pull counter and baited the specialist. LOL

nope

 

[I WILL CUT YOU]

So... Conor should worry about Khabib's boxing now? Wow, the Khabib nuthuggers are starting to rival Conor's…..

According to a lot of these discussions, Khabib is Ali in boxing, Rickson in BJJ and Karelin in wrestling.

I was in a "discussion" the other day on here with someone saying GSP would get devastated by Khabib. Wow, just wow.

By countering it, duh.

Celtic cross, nough said

By moving his head, timing a counter from perfect distance and sparking him

LOL

People that watched Kabib fight Al an say he looked good striking....... watched a different than me. Everytime I hear how Kabib looked good striking with Al I'm like I mean yeah he didn't get beat on feet as Al was al was already beat up 2 rds of gnp an feared a td. Had Kabib struck with Al from start he loses the fight an Al isn't half the striker Conor is. Honestly Kabibs striking looks a small step above CM punk.

That said I think Kabib wins in 1 rd via gnp n goes in for a td in first 15 sec. But certainly wo t be his jab or anything g standing. He stands with Conor for a rd he gets slept.

Khalabib5000 will do nothing but swarm and swan dive for TD's against Conor. Conor tags Khalabib5000 with the left & its all over

Khabib will not have the hands or foot work to take khabib. It makes no sense to mention the jab when everyone knows the pull counter is so intergral to conners style of fighting. It is a must go bring this to the floor using dirty boxing and i think khabib will take a page out of daniel comiers book. I could be wrong.

What a time to be alive.

You guys have already hyped Khabib's grappling to no end and downplayed Conor's skills, that you already have to move on to hyping Khabibs striking. As if its a threat to fucking Conor.

rofll.......

Khabib is a fucking snail next to Mcgregor

Khabib won't even try to stand with him

Khabib will not throw one punch. He will desperation dive at Conor’s legs from the first second of the fight. Then lights out.

Lol @anyone thinking that Kaboob will try to jab. Kaboob is so afraid of Conors striking he's going to army crawl across the cage right from the bell.

That off-balance piece of shit jab looks awful. lmao

Conor's in more danger of the ceiling collapsing and knocking him out.

Conor fought Mayweather. Khabib's striking won't fuck with Conor. He's on a different level now.

You really don't want to jab with a counter punching southpaw. It's amazing how little Sherdog understands about boxing. I'm convinced most of you guys are really wrestling fans.

The way he slips and counters is the best we’ve seen in mma. To have that reaction/reflex speed after slipping shots, making them miss by such small distance and stay close enough in range to counter, especially while leading and being the aggressor is crazy. Fast motherfucker.

khabibs right cross is very very very bad.
i rarely see a worse right cross like that sloppy thing from khabib and the counter left from conor is a premium strike. conor likes to use his left when someone throws the right cross or right jab.

when khabib throws that right cross torward conor khabib will get hit hard by that precise and powerfull counter left by conor.

so khabib shouldnt use his right hand at all, lol.

conor needs to trick him to get khabib to use that right cross.

Khabib leaves his chin out and brings his hand back to his waist when he jabs. If Iaquinta had any kind of a right hand counter it would of been interesting. Conor would slip/parry Khabib's jab and hit him with a right jab counter.

Yeah his striking is honestly the worst I've ever seen of a top guy. He makes Jake Shields look like a striking wizard.

Id say its on par with Ronda, but I won't go that far, hers is obviously better.

If you want to call sloppy F level striking "unorthodox" go ahead. When he throws a strike, every single aspect of the technique is wacked. He throws shit from angles that are dangerous, to himself. He is always off balance it seems when he strikes too. This isn't going to cut it against Conor.

If Khabib even has a thought about throwing one of his "drunk while playing twister" punches, Conor is slipping it and hes getting handled by Conors combos.

The real question is does Khabib have a good enough chin for Connor. If Khabib can take damage like Diaz, Connor is toast. Connors ability to take damage will not be able to withstand even half a round of Khabib level GnP so we know Connor might not survive down there. However we did see Khabib eat a Barboza spin kick and look unfazed. So we know he does have some Chin. If he has enough for round one, he kills him.

Omg lol....khabib was jabbing a ortho fighter with the same height and reach as him, who was flat footed, not countering, and had a weird low stance cause he was scared of takedowns.

Boxing 101 with southpaw vs ortho, the ortho throws the jab, the paw takes a slight angle to the right and follows with a counter straight down the pipe. Conor will throw a straight, then use his sneaky lead uppercut coming from under khabibs left armpit, then a follow up straight. Its a basic counter vs ortho that Conor does VERY well, for reference see the alverez fight.

Conors got like 8" reach on khabib and counter strikes making exceptional use of his range.

Khabibs worse possible gameplan will try using that jab on Conor, lets hope for khabibs sake him outpointing Al (which he couldnt drop or hurt in 5 rounds) doesnt put it in his head he can box with Conor. His grappling is his path to victory.

Khabib throwing a jab would be the beginning of the end for Khabib, I expect Khabib to be in full blitz takedown mode, he knows his striking is amateur in comparison.

You sound like one of those guys that thinks Dillashaw has "great footwork" because he dances around like a drunk frat chick. It really is amazing how little you guys know about boxing. The only time you'll see a "great striker" step straight back from the pocket is when they're hurt. You probably also think Barboza is a "great striker" because he throws flashy kicks even though he's a terrible boxer.

That’s true. The vast majority of mma fighters don’t have very good boxing. But that still doesn’t take away from conors skill. He way he slips and counters, how he makes opponents miss by such a smalll margin, that shit is not easy. Aldo tried it many times against Stephens but if I remember correctly he didn’t land it even once. It’s a big risk to take sometimes if done at the wrong time or you’re too close.

Conor’s control of distance is amazing. Even against Floyd, early on he looked good. Floyd ended up destroying him bad, but for a guy that was supposed to get slapped up immediately, he did well. I’ll take sugar rays word over anybody else. A boxer of his caliber saying Conor did good? Tyson said it, too. They were all surprised and impressed Conor could do what he did even though he got outclassed BAD eventually. While fresh, Conor is a monster. If he put all of his time into pure boxing he could do well.

World champ? I doubt that. But dangerous for anybody. His countering is high level. People talk about Anderson’s boxing but it’s a joke compared to Conor’s. Silva without his kicks and knees isn’t shit. Notice he’s relied on his hands more than anything lately because he’s worried about his leg, notice how he doesn’t look like anything special using his hands only. Notice his most significant shots since he leg break we’re actually kicks and knees.

His hands are overrated as fuck. Conor is quite possibly the best boxer we’ve seen in mma. Certainly the most dangerous puncher we’ve seen. People will say I’m nuthugging, but I’m just being honest. Conor may be an asshole sometimes. But as a fighter he’s one of the best in the world, with some of the most effective striking/boxing we’ve seen in this sport.

Another thing - Nate’s boxing isn’t exactly bad. Its very effective. That’s what matters. It doesn’t look nice, but it works. Like Khabib’s striking. It’s ugly, but it’s effective and that’s what matters. Conor’s striking looks crisp and smooth, and it’s extremely effective. His left is like RJJ’s straight right or left hook. Roy rarely jabbed, he lead with his left hook and it almost always landed. Everybody knew what his strengths were, they knew what his best weapons were, yet they couldn’t avoid it, much like people can’t avoid Conor’s left. That’s skill right there. Conor is an exceptional striker.

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I literally laughed out loud when I read the title. LMAO. How will Conor counter teh jab? By countering it with ease. SMH. Hobbeeb should set up his TD's with leg kicks and feints. He should not be striking with him at all.

if anything khabib lets connor try to come towards him, fake a take down and lead with the uppercut....if khabibs jabs he will get countered and it will be a short night

His last fight was against maywesther.

Don’t think he’s worried about kahibs striking.

iaquinta is a real estate agent

conor is a once in a generation athlete
he will figure out that jab in 12 seconds

He'll jump to guard and avoid the facepunchy game altogether.

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[Usssssyyyy]

@Massapiece Conor is looking down and moving backwards. Watch the movements of his body carefully because he isn't getting ready to strike with his left hand, he's getting ready to react to a takedown attempt by hopping backwards.

Yeah that’s the difficult bit about facing a wrestler. You don’t know if he’s throwing that punch or going for the take down, guess wrong and you’re fucked.

 

[Jeandoozz]

Actually you are right, @Massapiece . Thanks for pointing out my mistake.

if this is sincere, my faith in humanity took 1 point up. So rare and important to be able to accept to change his mind by listening to other's arguments.

Well done sir.

 

[Alanf7]

He'll use the 4" reach advantage that he has...

And a counter left.

Khabib 70" reach
Iaquinta 70" reach
Mcgregor 74" reach


other Mcgregor opponents with a 70" reach

Lmfao retard

 

[Sjb1888]

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