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The tricky thing in predicting this fight is we really won't till how Conor will look defensively in defending the takedown and getting up/defending vs Khabibs top control until fight night. Conor has known about this fight for several months at the least and he knew he would likely face Khabib at some point so it's safe to say majority of this year he's been working extensively on that. Now that's just talking about this year alone and that likely is not enough time to really overcome a fighter as high level as KHabib.
However, I think there is more to it than that because he knew he needed to keep the fight up vs Nate and he did defending the takedowns very well.....he knew that Eddie will try and take him down and Eddie went 0 for 3 and Conor had no issues in keeping the fight standing. So with that said, Conor has been working on his tdd and defensive grappling for more than two years now for those two fights, in addition to this year.
We havent seen much of Conor on the ground in his last two fights because he's done a great job of keeping the fight up. Its pretty clear the camp for Diaz 2 and Eddie he put in a lot of time. So its not just this camp for Khabib, its the past two fight camps that also has to be taken into account. I think Conor will do better than people expect in keeping the fight up. Some are talking about the Medes fight, that was over two years ago, I think we're gonna see a different Conor in that aspect with all that time, I think we already did vs Eddie.
However, I think there is more to it than that because he knew he needed to keep the fight up vs Nate and he did defending the takedowns very well.....he knew that Eddie will try and take him down and Eddie went 0 for 3 and Conor had no issues in keeping the fight standing. So with that said, Conor has been working on his tdd and defensive grappling for more than two years now for those two fights, in addition to this year.
We havent seen much of Conor on the ground in his last two fights because he's done a great job of keeping the fight up. Its pretty clear the camp for Diaz 2 and Eddie he put in a lot of time. So its not just this camp for Khabib, its the past two fight camps that also has to be taken into account. I think Conor will do better than people expect in keeping the fight up. Some are talking about the Medes fight, that was over two years ago, I think we're gonna see a different Conor in that aspect with all that time, I think we already did vs Eddie.