The UFC and Mixed Martial Arts Thread

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Tubey said:
Trying to think of a way McGregor beats Khabib but struggling to be honest.

Very much like Mayweather/Pacquaio, where one style is tailor made for another.
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Left straight as he comes in. That simple. McGregor is not tailor made for Khabib at all as he slides and counters extremely well e.g. vs Aldo, Alvarez and Buchinger. McGregor’s distance control is brilliant so at some point Khabib will have to close the distance using foot speed when the single leg is out of reach and expose himself.

If Khabib gets hold of him even with one finger it’ll be a mauling obviously. But every fight starts on the feet and McGregor definitely has the timing and guile to put him asleep.
 
Also, re. Till vs Woodley, levels. Woodley undoubtedly top 3 welterweights ever joe alongside GSP and Hughes.

Fair play to Till for his reaction post fight. Very honest and respectful. He was rushed into a fight he had no business being in at 25 and will come again.
 
Azzurri said:
Left straight as he comes in. That simple. McGregor is not tailor made for Khabib at all as he slides and counters extremely well e.g. vs Aldo, Alvarez and Buchinger. McGregor’s distance control is brilliant so at some point Khabib will have to close the distance using foot speed when the single leg is out of reach and expose himself.

If Khabib gets hold of him even with one finger it’ll be a mauling obviously. But every fight starts on the feet and McGregor definitely has the timing and guile to put him asleep.
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The problem is that you have to commit to such a punch to get knockout power behind it - if he lands it, he has to knock the fella out, because if not Khabib grabs him. And Khabib has never been really hurt from what I can tell.

So we have a boxer vs. wrestler (albeit both being MMA of course but you get what I mean in this context); that's what I mean by tailor made for him, because as long as the wrestler has the ability to walk through one shot at most to get inside, he usually wins the fight.

Admittedly I may be overrating Khabib, but to me he's frighteningly good. I've never seen anyone do what he does on the ground in terms of control of an opponent. He's a freak in that regard - like a human flytrap.
 
Tubey said:
The problem is that you have to commit to such a punch to get knockout power behind it - if he lands it, he has to knock the fella out, because if not Khabib grabs him. And Khabib has never been really hurt from what I can tell.

So we have a boxer vs. wrestler (albeit both being MMA of course but you get what I mean in this context); that's what I mean by tailor made for him, because as long as the wrestler has the ability to walk through one shot at most to get inside, he usually wins the fight.

Admittedly I may be overrating Khabib, but to me he's frighteningly good. I've never seen anyone do what he does on the ground in terms of control of an opponent. He's a freak in that regard - like a human flytrap.
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I disagree in McGregor’s case re. committing to the shot. He’s got at least 3 knockouts off the top of my head while moving laterally or backwards with no back foot set. And if he lands it, there’s a very good chance he does knock Khabib out. He was clipped by Michael Johnson as Johnson moved sideways - he wasn’t exactly hurt, but if McGregor does that it’s over.

Khabib’s top pressure and ground control is ridiculous, but his one weakness wrestling wise is that he moves into range relatively slowly and exposed. Tailor made to beat McGregor would be someone like GSP or Dillashaw who can set up the takedown with the threat of strikes and switch stances to control range. Khabib can’t just dive on a single leg, and the fact that he knows that will mean he has to stand with McGregor at least briefly, which is where it gets interesting.
 
Loved tyron post fight seeking Darren out and telling him his first title fight he was 10-0 and that loss made him what he is now and that he will be back

don't know why t-wood gets such hate, he only ever asks for what others are handed easily and gets vilified for it, however he always fights who is put in front of him, and if its a bad matchup, he does what he needs to win, and then gets called boring

got some heart till though, a lesser man would have crumbled at some of those elbows
 
Everyone saying Conor has lost it, however, just take away the crowd noises that normally has at the pressers, and is anything he is saying that much different than normal? he just doesn't have the fans lapping up every word like normal

as some people have said, take some sitcoms away from the live audience and they would seem mental too
 
The bloke's a horrible human being. Brags about being a tough guy yet stormed a building with 30 of his mates and attacked a bus that had women on it, what a scumbag. It says a lot about our society that do many idolize a person like him who has absolutely no class, no manners, no sense of self-awareness and no respect for others.

It's not a nice thing to say but if he goes into the octagon and gets a career ending injury it would serve him right and I'd have zero sympathy. A truly pathetic person who karma will come back to haunt.
 
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