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Short notice Chad easily took Conor down, Khabib had to work very hard to do the same.
Chad was busy on the ground, landing numerous vicious elbows. Khabib was inactive and happy to just smother him.
Chad hit Conor with 4 or 5 bombs, Khabib landed one shot on an off balance Conor.
Chad almost finished Conor while Conor was still fresh. Khabib never threatened to finish Conor until Conor was exhausted.
Chad fought an active and peak Conor. Khabib fought a balloon footed Conor trying to shake 2 years of ring rust.
Chad didn't lose a round to Conor. Khabib did.
Chad > Khabib?
Not even close.
Chad got a few takedowns but he expended a lot of energy doing it. He landed strikes but overall didn't do much, Conor was rolling with the punches and shaking his head taunting. Conor was being held down and roughed up but wasn't in serious trouble. Conor was actually calling to the ref to stand it up at one point - which was really a successful tactic to aggravate Chad into creating an opening - he wasn't in real danger or getting hurt if he was talking shit from his back...
Khabib didn't smother Conor, he completely mauled Conor while talking shit to him... in the 2nd round he had Conor in serious trouble - then he clowned him in the 3rd round by trading jabs and slapping him, before going back to mauling and finishing him in 4th...
Also Conor actually picked apart and finished Mendes brutally... while he barely landed anything on Khabib at all... what kind of comparison is this?