So outside Tony&McGregor who should Khabib fight next ?

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...for the belt at LW

Tony is out for a long time and Conor is fighting Mayweather again. Whos the next in line at LW ?

Poirier ( if he beats Gaethje )
Wick ( on a win streak )
Alvarez ( a bit soon after his last TS imo )
Hernandez ( on a streak and beat Dariush )
Felder ( on a Nice streak )
Lee ( if he beats Barboza )

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Lee if he beats Barboza decisively. He´s a bad match up for Khabib imo. Strong as an Ox with better striking and very good grappling as well. He might be the Tibau 2.0.
 
Poirier if he wins Saturday. Or Max/Ortega winner. Khabib said MSG so if Max/Ortega goes down at 226 they would have 4 months until MSG.
 
Lee if he beats Barboza decisively. He´s a bad match up for Khabib imo. Strong as an Ox with better striking and very good grappling as well. He might be the Tibau 2.0.

Its Lee, if he can get past Barboza. However, I think Lee is overrated. The guy isn't explosive on the feet, and people give him so much credit over his ground fighting. He's good, no doubt. But he has an average gas tank, and Khabib seems to have a better one. I think that is the deciding factor here.

The other one worth it is Gaethje. I saw Vick on that list... that guy is good, but no one is tuning in to watch that guy fight.
 
Wouldn't mind seeing the winner of Poirier / Gaethje, or Kevin Lee.
 
Its Lee, if he can get past Barboza. However, I think Lee is overrated. The guy isn't explosive on the feet, and people give him so much credit over his ground fighting. He's good, no doubt. But he has an average gas tank, and Khabib seems to have a better one. I think that is the deciding factor here.

The other one worth it is Gaethje. I saw Vick on that list... that guy is good, but no one is tuning in to watch that guy fight.
I´m not sure the guy is overrated. He was beating Ferguson on the feet , and he was fighting with a staph infection, which I think really hinders a fighter's performance. The guy is legit imo, and is huge for the division.
 
No one because odds are he doesn't show.

I'm biased here but really....it's a thing.
 
all i know is that i dont want to see eddie sanchez near the title any time soon and the dude is trying to talk himself into one...

lw division would be destroyed for another couple of years if alvarez gets hands again on that title and conor comes in again and blows him out with wind punches

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i just want to see khabib vs tony is that too much to ask :(
 
Give it to Holloway as originally intended as the replacement.
Holloway with a proper camp handles Khabibi
 
Sauce for Conor v money??????
 
Eventually, when women's rights are in full force, I want Khabib / Cyborg.
 
Lee if he beats Barboza decisively. He´s a bad match up for Khabib imo. Strong as an Ox with better striking and very good grappling as well. He might be the Tibau 2.0.

Lee is the most intriguing fight for Khabib.

A big, explosive wrestler with KO power.
 
Sadly, the winner of Poirier vs Gaethje is the only one that would make sense.
Wick ( on a win streak )
Hernandez ( on a streak and beat Dariush )
Fighting John Wick? Now that would be something.

Jokes aside, he just can't go from a questioned title fight against the #10 to even lower ranked opponents like #11 Vick or #13 Hernandez.
 
Lee has problems with the weight, so we will see. Poirier makes ssnse.
 
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