Khabib was hit cleanly by both Johnson and Horcher

[Mr Wings]

 

[KevinLee]

If he isn't coming back, why is he currently training?

Not to fight Khabib lol. He would get tossed around and murdered in 1 round.

Now imagine Khabib on top of Conor.

 

[iloveufc123]

I can see Conor laying him out if he lands clean, talk all the shit you want but you can't deny his power.

Khabib is tough as they come though, all he needs to do is get past the first round and it's his fight.

 

[welcometohavoc]

Yea I know, I wasn't trying to say Khabib and Eddie are equal grappling wise at all. Just that Conor can handle himself decently defending takedowns. Some posters act like he is a helpless child in that department.

Also, a grapplers takedown attempts can get less dominant real quick when they eat some serious leather going in

I mean Chad Mendes was taking him down at will before he gassed from short campitis.

 

[legedema]

How can Conor win when he is running away ?

 

[HelloJapan]

If he isn't coming back, why is he currently training?

He's a narcissistic athlete...they "train" all the time.

 

[brucelee619]

Both southpaws with a fraction of the punching skill Conor has. Conor is probably veen better after training boxing for a few months.

And Conors TDD is pretty good early in the fight. He shrugged Eddie off like he was nothing. Edson stopped a few of Khabibs takedowns.

This fight is easy work for Conor. Khabib moves forward aggressively and gets clipped hard. Panics and tries to set up his takedowns from range but gets picked apart and finished in the first.

If Conor was really avoiding Khabib he would have fought Tony. Instead he wants Khabib to win and knock off Tony who is a more dangerous fighter

Pillow fist Nate rocked Conor n made him tap before he even got a full squeeze so don’t think your boy has improved much

 

[Russ82]

Not to fight Khabib lol. He would get tossed around and murdered in 1 round.

Now imagine Khabib on top of Conor.

Chad was on steroids and Conor had a fucked knee + took that fight on short notice. And Chad sets up his takedowns differently - he has one of the best double legs in the game. Khabib gets the takedown from the clinch usually.

 

[GreatSaintGuillotine]

Chad was on steroids and Conor had a fucked knee + took that fight on short notice. And Chad sets up his takedowns differently - he has one of the best double legs in the game. Khabib gets the takedown from the clinch usually.

Chad never popped for roids and even if he was using he'd have had no time to cycle on 2 weeks notice.

 

[GreatSaintGuillotine]

Horcher was a late replacement. Khabib had been training to fight an orthodox fighter with a much longer range. Getting hit (with nothing of note) by a very different fighter then you prepared for is normal. Conor was consistently getting hit by Mendes despite him being worse on the feet than Aldo with a much shorter reach.

MJ is a very good striker with great hand speed. He landed better than anyone else did but still had no luck landing anything of note outside of the first minute of the first round.

Conor could very well find a chance to counter and deal some good damage but putting Khabib out early is a tall order. Conor ends up in the clinch a lot and Khabib will be by far the best chain wrestler he'll have ever faced. It could go either way but Khabib's chances of winning are better than Conor's.

 

[Black Blood]

Khabib has shown to be hit-able. But nothing has really made him back off. I mean, he was really eating those strikes by Barboza. To me he kinda looked like he accepted that he'd get hit and he'd just work with/through it.

Conor is really going to have to crack him with something. Not saying he can't...

 

[GreatSaintGuillotine]

Khabib has shown to be hit-able. But nothing has really made him back off. I mean, he was really eating those strikes by Barboza. To me he kinda looked like he accepted that he'd get hit and he'd just work with/through it.

Conor is really going to have to crack him with something. Not saying he can't...

He took most of the big shots on his arms and gloves. He's not much of the dodgy sort (well that's half true, he's oddly good at dodging looping shots) but he is really good at soaking power out of most shots. He very rarely eats full force clean shots.

Conor could find an opening but putting him out is no small task. Still, with the ideal counter anything can happen.

 

[Fullmount Triangle]

Michael Johnson hit Nate Diaz as well, diaz submitted conor like 2 months afyerwards. It turns out that not everyone is the same.

HUHUHUHUH DIS GUI GOT HIT IN A FITE SO CONLAND XOULD HIT HOM 2

How do you know? Have you seen him fight? Ive never seen him fight

 

[KevinLee]

Chad was on steroids and Conor had a fucked knee + took that fight on short notice. And Chad sets up his takedowns differently - he has one of the best double legs in the game. Khabib gets the takedown from the clinch usually.

Khabib can take people down in all ways. You dont think Khabib can shoot a double leg lol ? Conor would be flying through the air. Khabib would eat him alive.

Conor dont want any of this.

 

[Merman]

Connie McPillowfists hit an old retired Floyd M. and never even backed him up. Diaz laughed everytime McRunner hit him causing Connie to run away the whole fight. A much smaller out of shape Mendes completely dominated McTapper until the no training caught up.
Connie has about a 10% punchers chance.

 

[Superzorro]

It's a lot more interesting than autistic Conor haters lead on. Pretty damn close to 50/50 imo.

Khabib is in HUGE danger of getting knocked out every second it's standing. And Conors TDD is way better than people give him credit for. But Khabib is a freaking animal..

A lot of people here pretend that the majority of posters werent saying Eddie was going to easily grapplefuck Conor and look what happened..

Yeah, you're right. Most Khabib fans think that it's going to be a close fight, and that Khabib won't maul Conor. If you can't remember the millions of other threads, just look at all of the posts in this thread.

 

[Superzorro]

Not to fight Khabib lol. He would get tossed around and murdered in 1 round.

Now imagine Khabib on top of Conor.

Chad was on steroids and Conor had a fucked knee + took that fight on short notice. And Chad sets up his takedowns differently - he has one of the best double legs in the game. Khabib gets the takedown from the clinch usually.

Khabib can take people down in all ways. You dont think Khabib can shoot a double leg lol ? Conor would be flying through the air. Khabib would eat him alive.

Conor dont want any of this.

None of these gifs show Khabib shooting in like Chad Mendes does. Khabib doesn't shoot from afar often. And there's no reason to think that he has any better penetration in his shots than someone like Kevin Lee or Eddie Alvarez.

The problem with this, though, is that Conor has never avoided the clinch in any one of his twenty odd fights. Even Eddie got him to the cage once. Khabib is considerably better at cutting off the cage and tying his opponents up than Eddie. Conor will get put against the cage, where Khabib will likely slam him. In my eyes, it's an inevitability.

 

[Irishwhiskey119]

For Nate who he has a pick em chance against. He's not coming back for the elite LW. He's been running for two years from them.

He has an easier chance of winning vs Khabib and Tony.

 

[in the liver]

Both southpaws with a fraction of the punching skill Conor has. Conor is probably veen better after training boxing for a few months.

And Conors TDD is pretty good early in the fight. He shrugged Eddie off like he was nothing. Edson stopped a few of Khabibs takedowns.

This fight is easy work for Conor. Khabib moves forward aggressively and gets clipped hard. Panics and tries to set up his takedowns from range but gets picked apart and finished in the first.

If Conor was really avoiding Khabib he would have fought Tony. Instead he wants Khabib to win and knock off Tony who is a more dangerous fighter

It took less than 5 seconds for mendes to put conor on his back. 5 seconds where the fight had to start and the fighters had to close the distance between each other, and Conor was on his back inside 5 seconds like an extremely efficient prostitute

 

[Sunken]

Both southpaws with a fraction of the punching skill Conor has. Conor is probably veen better after training boxing for a few months.

And Conors TDD is pretty good early in the fight. He shrugged Eddie off like he was nothing. Edson stopped a few of Khabibs takedowns.

This fight is easy work for Conor. Khabib moves forward aggressively and gets clipped hard. Panics and tries to set up his takedowns from range but gets picked apart and finished in the first.

If Conor was really avoiding Khabib he would have fought Tony. Instead he wants Khabib to win and knock off Tony who is a more dangerous fighter

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