Look dude, no offense meant at all but Khabib and Mendez are not the same and i wouldn't classify Khabib as just "a wrestler". Mendez has a brilliant double leg Khabib doesn't, Mendez has much better stand up and has great power, power enough to hurt people on the feet, Khabib doesn't (i have yet to see it). Also Alvarez is bigger than McGregor (not taller but bigger frame) and i would say is very comparable in strength to Khabib. On the ground Khabib is fantastic but everywhere else he is very weak and tbh if i was a betting man i'd bet that McGregor's ground game is far better than Khabib's stand-up. He stands there throwing slow sloppy punches that don't carry much power all the while his chin is up in the air. He has that same chin up nonsense that Ferguson has which is begging to be tagged and my guess is it will, repeatedly.
thats why i said conors only chance is by tagging kahbib with a hard clean strike, whether by leg or hand, enough to wobble or drop him and then go for the finish.
If kahbib gets ahold of conor and gets him to the ground, conor is going to have a hard time getting up. Kahbib has the strength, size and mass to hold him on his back, and conor wastes all his energy trying to get to his feet with kahbibs relentless pace, he's going to gas and the fight will end with kahbib winning.
Look what happened when conor gassed against diaz, and got taken down easily by nate and choked out, he had no td defense, no ground game to counter nates, and conor will not have a good enough ground game to submit kahbib nor will he be able to stop kahbib from staying on top, if conor gets tired from being on his back, kahbib is going to gnp him out because he won't defend or win a 5 round decision, once conor has no stamina his punches won't do sh!t to kahbib....conor only wins this fight if he catches kahbib in round 1 or round 2.
Don't forget conor has only fought at lw once, and won early....who knows with a 2 year lay off, if he can even go 3 rounds at 5 min, needless to say 5 rounds with a guy who easily takes his opponents down and mauls them to the point they can't do squat, conor has only a stand up chance, all his other aspects of mma are completely useless against kahbib, he has no td defense, no wrestling, no submission skills, and doesn't know what to do when he's on his back, if kahbib gets him down conor will have a long night fighting where he's least comfortable, conor is only winning this fight in the stand up....all kahbib has to do is be able to eat the first shot the conor counters when he goes for his TD, if that punch doesn't stun or wobble him and he's able to get the TD successfully without visually being affected by the punch on the way in, conor is screwed.
And were not comparing the styles or differences between mendez and kahbibs wrestling, not sure why you brought that up it means nothing to me. The point is kahbib is stronger, heavier, bigger, and his style of TD's and grappling has been no match to anyone, its not about who has the better double or single, plain and simple Kahbibs ground game is light years ahead of mendez, go watch all there fights from both fighters and then come back and tell me which one is mauling there opponents, and putting them on there back having them not being able to do anything much to get back up. I mean if you want to judge on single and double td's, go watch an olympic wrestling match this is mma and in terms of comparing who's ground game is better, kahbib wins hands down.
