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Originally Posted by Balla Shusher
I thought that was a good point raised that Al Iaquinta went the distance vs Khabib
Every one knows in their heart of hearts if Conor fought Al he would KO him.
Khabib is not going to come in and dominate conor in the first two rounds, Khabib could win but for 100% it wont be by KO or by grab a hold and rag doll soon as you please sir, those days are long behind.
When your a fighter like conor and you know your foe has 1, count it 1 way to beat you, that makes it difficult for a one trick pony.
You have to be very careful with a guy like conor that has the whole spectrum and also mentality and ethos beyond professional.
Khabib can take the hardest of conor, but in the 3th can he, if he tires and 80% of his take down attempts have been stopped and he is winded himself, what is he going to do then.
The thing about conor is he is a difficult nut to crack, nate did it by taking the hardest shots conor could land and pacing himself in a way conor had never seen.
No one, even Khabib, is just snap coming into the cage and trying to go body to body as a go to and whittling down one of the greatest fighters in modern history.
Demian Maia for all his brilliance, at the end of the day joe rogan roasted his arse that he could take him self to the highest level of the game and push for the belt with out striking, kicks. Khabib striking is lacking.
You start shipping huge units on Khabib you need to post your logic, your
thoughts, your business plain for how he beats conor.
Conor has the option of landing blows between 10% and 80% power... and adjustment for speed. You are talking about an untouchable fighter if he wants it that way, if forced he will see you but see you lit up with some thing horrific as the payment for stepping in, there are parts of the body you don't want to be hit with by a professional martial artist,
A professional gambler would bet this fight by hedge, this is not a straight up winner bet, its too close. The ITD is a lock imo.
This is going to be a huge fight, conor is going to come in off the camp of his life, this is his bogey man and every one including him knows it.
LOL. Plan to beat Conor, are you serious??? Mendez ragdolled him for 2 straight rounds, and he had 10 days notice and is not even close to Khabib level in just about everything. This **** has to strop ffs!
Nate destroyed him on 10 days notice too. Mendez would of done the same had he Nate's cardio.
You talk about a 1 trick pony in Khabib, are you this deluded to think Conor has anything other than a left hand. If you are talking more well rounded fighter, I think you have to give it to Khabib.
This **** is too funny, Khabib takes down everybody, yet you think that Conor can defend those take downs???? You mean like he defended those of Mendez, right?? Owhhh wait you only watched the take downs defends when Chad was all gassed out, yeah Conor looked good stopping those, but you have to be 1 deluded sob to not see how or why Conor was able to defend those!
The only way Conor wins this is by fluke ko or some kind of nonsense were Khabib throws his game plan out the window and trades with him, I don't see either happening. We'll see what happens, however if I'd had to pick a scenario that might be more plausible I'd go with the latter, I think Khabib might be prone to ego problems, he seems like the kind of ***** that will actually deviate from his game plan, because Conor hurt his little ***** ego.
Time will tell though. Conor might get it done because Khabib's ego will prevent him from beating Conor, unless the whole Artem thing and the "I wanna fight you anywhere, send me location" type of comments are just purely promoting the fight on his end and he has no intentions outside the ring, then I see Khabib winning.
But if he serious about those comments and actions, then I think he too is going to fight too emotional and we all know what happens when you fight emotional.
We;ll see though, I don't think Conor has it in him to beat a Khabib that shows up and plans to take him down and ground and pound him. No way in hell, the only way would be an Also fluke, what's the possibility of that happening again?
I mean come on ffs, Mendez got him down multiple times and controlled him, Conor could not get up. Only once Mendez started tiring was Conor able to get back up and even defend. But do you really see Conor outworking Khabib, i mean come on ffs, the guy is 1 of the best at cardio, he takes everybody down at will and pounds their head in..
He destroyed RDA, who in turn destroyed Nate, who in turn choked Conor out and made him look like an average bum in the 2nd fight, i mean ffs, are we really even discussing this ****??