I've been wrong a lot about fights and my appraisal about fighters but honestly man Conor is thte biggest fraud in MMA history. He is not a uniquely talented athlete. He's legit nothing special. Made his name against smaller fighters at 145. Dude is nothing special.
I simultaneously agree and disagree.
Much as I dislike his (now exposed) fake tough guy persona and his insufferable fans, McGregor is a great fighter with some outstanding abilities. At the same time, he was also flawed and lacking in certain areas, which other great, or in Nate's case, good fighters have managed to exploit.
McGregor versus Alvarez was him at his very best, and against Khabib, he didn't fight at that level. His reactions were just a little bit slower, which might have been his lifestyle catching up to him, but then again, that's also well within the performance he displayed against Mendes or the first fight against Nate.
I would have been all over Khabib except for my own concern about his plethora of injuries, kidney failure, weight-cutting struggles, and a few flaws of his own made -150 a little too uncertain for my tastes.
But again, props for calling this one almost exactly.