The more I think about this fight, the more I think Khabib is going to lay a beat down on Tony. Which is hard to imagine since Tony is such a tough fucker. But, his TDD isn’t great. Yes, he has incredible chokes, but he’s going to need to land one while being dumped to the ground. It’s hard to know which way Khabib is going to twist and turn your body to take you down.
Also, I know Tony’s ground game off his back is legit. He’s not some scrub. But there’s very few, not just now, but in MMA’s history, that have the insane top control that Khabib does (the most recent like him I think is Askren and nobody really got up when Ben got them down). He’s a tireless worker and he just smashes shit when he’s on top. Tony will need to hope one of the elbows from bottom slice up Khabib and change the fight but, this one might end up bad for Tony. It might be a worse beatdown than Cain vs JDS 2/3 just because Tony is such a tough guy that he may not ever give up. But that may not be to his benefit here.