Khabib has never beaten a champion

You actually have a point. He didn't beat the champ to get his belt, but it takes 2 to tango, and if the champ isn't interested the show must go on. Hopefully they fight so we can stop hearing about it.

I gotta say though, if Conor doesn't get a quick ko or learn how to wrestle really well, he's fucked. Conor has a chance, but it really is a small window of opportunity.
 
By "people who know what they're talking about" you mean casuals right?

If people actually bothered to analyze their styles they'd realize that Conor has had trouble against power double takedowns and grapplers who maintain a position without advancing, and defends well against clinch based takedowns and grapplers who try and transition on the ground for submissions or positions.

Khabib is the latter type of grappler, not the former.

If anything, it's these "hardcore" fans who don't seem to know what they're talking about. Khabib might still beat Conor, but his style doesn't matchup near as well as Sherdoggers seem to think it does.
 
RDA became champion literally a year after losing to Khabib.
The only reason he was given that chance in the first place was because Khabib was hurt.
 
Anyone not named Conor. Conor is the favorite among people who know what they're talking about. And that's not fighters -- fighters get hit in the head for a living.

Man...I'm a Conor fan but c'mon..it's posts like these that give the rest of us a bad name. Saying fighters don't know what they're talking about is plain dumb. They do it for a living. They know the techniques and intricacies of fighting that most of us will never comprehend.

That's like saying an MLB starting pitcher doesn't know how to throw a fastball and someone on an online forum knows how to do it perfectly.

Like c'mon.
 
Nate Diaz took McGregor down from the clinch, and he has the worst wrestling in the top 25.
 
If people actually bothered to analyze their styles they'd realize that Conor has had trouble against power double takedowns and grapplers who maintain a position without advancing, and defends well against clinch based takedowns and grapplers who try and transition on the ground for submissions or positions.
Based on what?

His best display of TDD was against Eddie who is the former and frankly is just sub par in the clinch. And one of the primary reason why Mendes lost is because he didn't advance guard. Staying in the same position cost him that fight. In contrast, Nate won because he changed positions rapidly and attacked from many positions. I cannot think of anyone who tried to take him down on the fence except maybe Nate, who is shitty at TDs.
 
What the fuck? Seriously? Fucking casuals...

Why dont you call your Irish hero up and ask him why he chose to give up his title rather than have to fight Khabib (or Tony).

Let me school you dummy-
Conor barely has a 1-1 record against the #6 ranked guy in the division, Nate.
The same Nate who wants no part of Khabib & has turned down the fight at least 3 times.

Conor knows Khabib(and Tony) are devastating matchups for him.

The only way we'll see Conor fight Khabib is if Conor is coked up with 20 friends and a hand truck.
He don't want that beating and he's made that clear for over a year now.

Khabib has made it clear he will fight anyone, and always has.
It's not his fault no one wants to fight him.
 
To be a real champ, you have to beat the champ. Conor has done this many times. Khabib has never beaten anyone ranked #1 in any division.
McGregor wasn't willing to fight and hasn't fought in close to two years. What was Khabib to do, sit around and wait? Sorry but no thanks. Khabib fights, McGregor posts on social media. When McGregor is ready to compete, he knows where to find Khabib.
 
Mighty Mouse still hasn’t beat a UFC champ in his career, what a chump.
 
To be a real champ, you have to beat the champ. Conor has done this many times. Khabib has never beaten anyone ranked #1 in any division.

You can bitch about it how much you want, but champ is who has the belt and that is Khabib. If you dont show up to your job, after some time there will be other person to do it and doesnt really matter if its real, fake or selfclaimed.
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Based on what?

He's only been taken down like 6/26 times IIRC in the UFC. Of those 6 successful takedowns 5 were from a level change in the middle, and only 1 against the cage (after 24:30 minutes of fighting and 6 successfully defended ones too).

Conor is much better at defending clinch and cage based takedowns.

His best display of TDD was against Eddie who is the former and frankly is just sub par in the clinch

Eddie went for takedowns in the clinch and was stuffed just like I said Conor is best at, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.

And one of the primary reason why Mendes lost is because he didn't advance guard. Staying in the same position cost him that fight.

Uhhh what? Going for a guillotine instead of sitting there is literally what led to the end of the fight as Conor used it to escape back to his feet and then KO'd Mendes seconds later lol.

Mendes had his best success sitting in Conor's guard raining down punches. Chad still got elbowed badly by Conor so he didn't entirely do great, but it's when he tried to advance position or go for submissions that Conor repeatedly got back to his feet.

In contrast, Nate won because he changed positions rapidly and attacked from many positions.

Nate went for a guillotine he himself said should've tapped Conor and Conor instead escaped it. He then countered the escape into full mount during Conor's escape. Conor rolled and Diaz managed to roll with it to take his back. It's then literally the impact from a punch by Diaz as he maintained position on Conor's back that created the space necessary to get his arm under the neck and get the choke. It's not that Conor did anything wrong there, it's that Diaz showed why he is a 2nd degree black belt with the most submissions in LW history.

Conor is good at scrambles and transitions. He's not so good when his opponent loads up in their chosen position.

Khabib isn't the blueprint perfect grappler to matchup with Conor's grappling deficiencies like Sherdoggers seem to think he is (or more likely parrot he is). His best shot at taking down Conor is a shot and Khabib instead gets most of his takedowns by chainwrestling. His best shot at beating up Conor on the ground is by achieving a position and maintaining it and Khabib instead tries to advance or get submissions. Doesn't mean that might make any difference at all though but it is worth acknowledging.
 
Anyone not named Conor. Conor is the favorite among people who know what they're talking about. And that's not fighters -- fighters get hit in the head for a living.

khabib is the favorite vs conor if you had bothered to check.

My buddy just picks the most muscular guy every time and he's almost always right. like 90%. Way more so than all these analysts who supposedly know what they're talking about. They don't know shit

umm no.
 
but he beat the great darrel horcher. Show some respct.
 
Khabib still fought when he missed weight and rescheduled against Tony the first chance he got. Khabib has never shied away from a challenge at 155.

Since Khabib has been ranked every champ other than Tony has refused to fight him. Conor ran from the sport, RDA declined a rematch, Eddie ducked him to fight a FW, Pettis demanded more money than he knew they'd give him, and Melendez refused to show up.

And you must be joking or stupid if you think Lee was EVER in a position to fight Khabib. He only entered the top 10 after Khabib was recovering from 209 and he immediately got choked out by Tony. Lee was an ant asking to fight an elephant.

Khabib fought when he made weight because his opponent still took the fight

Had he weighed in for the Tony fight instead of no showing that fight would have happened to

Conor “ran from the sport” to get paid a fuck load more money to fight someone else. Same thing you, me, and any other human being would have done

From the time RDA won the belt to the time he lost it Khabib fought 1 time and it was vs Darrell Horcher not sure why you think RDA declined a rematch Khabib just wasn’t active

Eddie fought Conor instead of him because he got paid a fuck load more than he would have against Khabib and Khabib had only fought once in the past 2 years at that time, against Darrell Horcher
 
To keep being the champ you must beat the contenders. Conor has never done that.
 
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