Yes, he did and I wouldn't say it was all smack talk either. Wilkinson did seem to get "lucky" from what little we managed to see as he was clearly inferior technically but Bäckström made a sloppy mistake (most likely from feeling too comfortable). I don't see Mike having any luck against Makwan apart from a similar mistake, which seems unlikely.Didn't Backstrom call him a no-hoper matched up to lose before he got KTFO?
I got Makwan by sub nevertheless, but I wouldn't be sad if Wilkinson knocks his ass out.
Makwan Amirkhani on Mike Wilkinson "I'm gonna eat this guy alive after I attack him during the initial touch of the gloves"
Not really, you couldn't say this even before Conor came to the UFC.
Wins outside of the UFC don't normally correlate to how someone will do in the UFC.