Conor's persona is largely based on never, ever, and for good measure, ever, getting a fight cancelled once the UFC has announced that he's gonna be on a card. The kind of injuries that lead, say, Aldo, Werdum, Dos Anjos, Khabib, Pettis and others to pull out are the kind he places ice over and he's good to go. It's a core part of his appeal to the UFC crowd. Now we don't know for sure what state of mind Conor is in and in the fight world nothing is guaranteed 100 % but it's rather likely that Conor is relying on keeping his current image alive. Which means no pullouts as long as he can walk properly to the Octagon.
I've also noted before that while I generally avoid Infowars Illuminate type of crazy talk, here we have a Conor Khabib fight in Vegas. I would imagine there's highly influential bookers and promoters behind the scenes who have massive financial incentives with a Conor Khabib fight in Vegas. And i would imagine they would have ways to get around USADA drug rules, allowing for more effective recovery for possible injuries and easier weight cutting, connections that can thwart the regulations, including payoffs if needed, and other such measures. This is a once in a lifetime event that's gonna make some important people massive profits and it's hard to believe they'd just rollover for excessive regulations and let injuries ruin this.
Regardless, in this card there are three main figures: Conor, Tony and Khabib. If all three make it to the Octagon, it's something to do backflips over. What most fans are most likely praying to some sort of divine presence for (even if they are in the Dawkins/Hitchens category of non believers) is that two out of those three make it to UFC 229. If it's Conor and Khabib, the fight goes as planned. If it's Conor and Tony, then we get to see Conor against the most effective LW striker he hasn't yet faced. If it's Tony and Khabib, it would be unfortunate but at least we'd finally get to see a major lw fight that's been cancelled 5 times before. The major issue is that there is no lw fighter who can provide anything as remotely interesting as those 3 fights. The only one in the same galaxy in terms of how interesting it could be is Conor Pettis to see if maybe Pettis could pull of the biggest miracle upset ever.
All this said, there's clearly no way it's just you who has reservations about this fight being intact.
I've also noted before that while I generally avoid Infowars Illuminate type of crazy talk, here we have a Conor Khabib fight in Vegas. I would imagine there's highly influential bookers and promoters behind the scenes who have massive financial incentives with a Conor Khabib fight in Vegas. And i would imagine they would have ways to get around USADA drug rules, allowing for more effective recovery for possible injuries and easier weight cutting, connections that can thwart the regulations, including payoffs if needed, and other such measures. This is a once in a lifetime event that's gonna make some important people massive profits and it's hard to believe they'd just rollover for excessive regulations and let injuries ruin this.
Regardless, in this card there are three main figures: Conor, Tony and Khabib. If all three make it to the Octagon, it's something to do backflips over. What most fans are most likely praying to some sort of divine presence for (even if they are in the Dawkins/Hitchens category of non believers) is that two out of those three make it to UFC 229. If it's Conor and Khabib, the fight goes as planned. If it's Conor and Tony, then we get to see Conor against the most effective LW striker he hasn't yet faced. If it's Tony and Khabib, it would be unfortunate but at least we'd finally get to see a major lw fight that's been cancelled 5 times before. The major issue is that there is no lw fighter who can provide anything as remotely interesting as those 3 fights. The only one in the same galaxy in terms of how interesting it could be is Conor Pettis to see if maybe Pettis could pull of the biggest miracle upset ever.
All this said, there's clearly no way it's just you who has reservations about this fight being intact.
