You could make a better argument that Khabib ducked Cerrone like 5 times. How many times were they scheduled to fight and he pulled out? I'm not saying he wasn't legit hurt, I'm just saying that Khabib has been so inactive and injured that it's ridiculous to claim anyone has been ducking him, much less 5 times.
Yeah I'm sure Khabib is scared shitless of Cerrone<45>
3 years from when Khabib first went into his injury-prone retirement, Dana's words ring true again:
When Khabib is gone, RDA gets a title shot, Nate fights Conor, but when he returns Eddie wants nothing to do with Khabib. Conor wins the title, and takes his own vacation
However, years before this Nate-Conor beef, Nate was expected to face Khabib. But time and time again, he's been avoiding him.
As word got around Ferguson wanted a pay-raise just to fight Khabib, and a possible Aldo-Khabib bout was also shot down,
rumors began flying of a possible Nate-Khabib match up.
Even though it was just a rumor, Nate responded in a heartbeat, this time demanding $20 million just to step in to the cage again. It seems Nate will say anything to avoid Khabib. In retrospect, Khabib's offer to pay Ferguson 200k becomes reasonable when Nate's demand is freaking nuts.
But this begs the question, why did Nate avoid Khabib? Their beef goes back much further than his beef with Conor, and the two have gotten physical outside of the cage just in 2015. On two occasions, Khabib and Nate's crews went at it in Vegas.
You would think someone like Nate would throw hands, in the face of such tension, but he ran like a chicken.
