Why was Conor Khabib's toughest opponent?

[warriorfan808]

Conor cheated throughout the fight and Khabib decided to stand with him. Conor isn’t the world beater that nuthuggers make him out to be.

 

[mmamxfan]

Who said Conor was Khabib's toughest opponent? There is a desert called Tiramisu that gave Khabib a much more difficult fight then Conor ever could. Tiramisu actually put Khabib in the hospital. Tiramisu>Khabib>Conor.

 

[613]

Can Conor fans fuck off trying to make Conor getting choked out and spit on some kinda great performance. Conor did fuck all all fight and cheated like 15 times (one stopping Khabib from getting the sub in round 2). He spent the first round holding on for dear life, got the piss beat out of him round 2, no one did anything round 3, and then got choked out round 4. Hardly this great performance you are trying to make it seem. Justin, Barboza, Johnson and Dustin had FAR better offense than Conor did and Tibau arguably should have beat Khabib. Conor fought to hold on, not to win

 

[Coconutwater]

Tibau fight was much more competitive.

I didn't even give Conor a round personally and I do think Khabib was playing with his food a little bit by choosing to stand and trade.

Is correct.

 

[613]

TS is correct on the whole

Not really. Conor "won" a round, but he fought scared. On the ground he held on and took zero risks. Standing he landed nothing significant. Dustin, Barboza, Justin and Johnson all landed FAR better strikes on Khabib than Conor did. And Tibau arguably should have beat Khabib.

Conor did the same thing against Khabib that he did vs Floyd. "Fight" to drag the fight out and not to win

 

[The XL]

Lol, Conor did nothing significant in the whole fight. The one round he arguably "won" nothing really happened, Khabib more or less took it off.

 

[SouthpawSouthernFist]

Not really. Conor "won" a round, but he fought scared. On the ground he held on and took zero risks. Standing he landed nothing significant. Dustin, Barboza, Justin and Johnson all landed FAR better strikes on Khabib than Conor did. And Tibau arguably should have beat Khabib.

Conor did the same thing against Khabib that he did vs Floyd. "Fight" to drag the fight out and not to win

Lol.. far better? I don't think so. None of them managed to do any real damage at all. Conor at least put his hands on him for an entire round.

 

[krelianx]

Conor kept cheating to avoid being taken down and much besides. Not to mention he got utterly dominated.

 

[Jfreemandrums]

Your 3rd point is dumb asf. Poirier got back up, therefore he was taken down again after getting up

Getting up > getting ground out on the mat

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

This thread seems like it was made by someone who has never seen any of khabibs fights, quickly read Khabibs Wikipedia, then ran and made a shit thread.

Seismic is one of the biggest Conor-dicksuckers on this site

TS is correct on the whole. I don't even believe the so called cheating should be taken into account. Every fighter tries to get away with stuff every once in awhile, whether it's an eye poke or a fence grab. The ref allowed it, so it's a level playing field as far as I'm concerned.

..one of..

Cheating is still the answer, whether or not you want to "take it into account." How did Conor survive? He cheated a shitload.

 

[Taric]

Conor got his ass whooped by Khabib. The hell is this thread

 

[Worthmore]

Conor was born to be a fighter

 

[BigFrankNgoatnnou]

He wasn’t even close. He cheated like the rat he is to escape the second round.

 

[Portland8242]

Yeah no - Conor committed an insane amount of fouls, more than I've seen in any championship fight ever.

Khabib had Conor dead to rights with a kimura and Conor cheated his way out of it and Herb did fuck all about it.

 

[mmadeewana]

Cheating multiple times in every round.

If not for that, Khabib would have subbed Conor in the second round via Kimura, after dropping him standing. Would have been one of Khabib's easiest fights if not for the blatant cheating.

This. Also conor got taken down less because he was not able to get up once he got taken down

 

[StonedLemur]

Prime Tibau was Khabib's closest fight.

No question

 

[Bilzerian]

Cuz Mcduck blatantly cheat over 20 times

 

[Doughie99]

It doesn't make any sense. How on earth did a "washed" "Not even a top 10 LW" Conor return from boxing and a whirlwind of partying yet somehow

1. Win a round?

2. Achieve the highest sig strikes (51) success of any Khabib opponent? (For comparison, Poirier landed 12)

3. Get taken down just 3 times in 4 rounds? (For comparison Poirier 7 times in 3 rounds, Al Laquinta 6 times in 5 rounds, RDA 6 times in 3 rounds)

4. Make it to round 4? Only Al Laquinta lasted longer.

A performance made all the more extraordinary given how much Khabib wanted to destroy Conor more than any other opponent and how easily Khabib would later (with retirement on his mind and one foot already out of MMA) defeat Dustin and Gaethje, who he 'didn't want to hurt'

Conor's performance goes a long way to explain Khabib's post fight psychotic rage and refusal to grant Conor a deserved rematch, he was clearly stunned by Conor's performance and who could blame him?

McG got smashed. Deal with it. Khabib was enjoying giving McG an extended beating.
Plus as @JonJonesNeedle said, he cheated constantly, and Herb Dean allowed him to get away with it, which was even more pathetic than the actual cheating itself.

 

[snackgod]

3 was a convincing round for Conor, it's not really debatable. But I do agree Khabib was biding his time. He did it against Iaquinta too.

khabib beat al 50-43 no where did al stand a chance in winning after the fight changed on 24 hours notice.

 

[PeacePipe]

It doesn't make any sense. How on earth did a "washed" "Not even a top 10 LW" Conor return from boxing and a whirlwind of partying yet somehow

1. Win a round?

2. Achieve the highest sig strikes (51) success of any Khabib opponent? (For comparison, Poirier landed 12)

3. Get taken down just 3 times in 4 rounds? (For comparison Poirier 7 times in 3 rounds, Al Laquinta 6 times in 5 rounds, RDA 6 times in 3 rounds)

4. Make it to round 4? Only Al Laquinta lasted longer.

A performance made all the more extraordinary given how much Khabib wanted to destroy Conor more than any other opponent and how easily Khabib would later (with retirement on his mind and one foot already out of MMA) defeat Dustin and Gaethje, who he 'didn't want to hurt'

Conor's performance goes a long way to explain Khabib's post fight psychotic rage and refusal to grant Conor a deserved rematch, he was clearly stunned by Conor's performance and who could blame him?

I think Conor got really lucky with some glove and fence grabs that would have been called if it were someone else.

And his fight IQ is amazing, his composure on the ground in round two was also phenomenal, i'm not sure many would have withstood that storm.

Khabib usually rests round 3, so i'm not overly suprised mcgregor won that round, but fair play to him.