r/ufc • u/SpecialistLost6572 • 1d ago
Khabib's mindset on Conor fight š®
No wonder Khabib is 29-0 šŖ
"I am preparing for war & he gives me this excuse that this is only just business."
When i catch his neck, choke him & he tapped.
I was like he brings thousands of people from Ireland here in different part of world & you tap in front of them & you talk about being a warrior." - Khabib
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u/Puzzleheaded_Pay4653 1d ago
It wasnāt a choke though, it was a face crank. It wouldnāt make Connor go sleep, it wouldāve shattered his jaw like Whittakerās did
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u/chasing_blizzards 1d ago
Apparently those cranks will put you to sleep, but with that being said, they hurt like hell and will leave your neck pretty fucked up, I hate conor but I don't judge him for tapping
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u/Possible_Baboon 22h ago
I agree with you, especially Khabib kinda wanted to kill him lol. I can imagine the 'rage strength' that was added as an extra.
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u/FeralBreeze 22h ago
Itās possible, itās called a mandible choke. If you align it just right you can compress the arteries through the jaw.
But itās a lot more likely that itās not on properly and the teeth/jaw will shatter first. Itās a miserable choke it feels like your head is going to explode.
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u/flatwoundsounds 18h ago
Yeah I don't know how likely this kind of torque is to cause a fracture, but holy shit the pain in the jaw and neck would be insane. Khabib probably squeezes tight enough to choke him out, but the pain from the crank (again, from a guy who has only trained to squeeze extremely tightly for his entire life) is enough to end the fight on its own.
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u/Sensitive_Lock2953 1d ago
The way Khabib had his head though had me thinking he was gonna snap his neck tbh. Like Khabib was pissed man I think he wanted to kill em šš
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u/Throwra504guy 23h ago
Whittaker's teeth were super compromised before that fight. Is there any example of a face crank exploding someone's jaw when it wasn't already previously destroyed?
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u/LaTunaTime 1d ago
Except Whittakers jaw didnāt break
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u/Puzzleheaded_Pay4653 1d ago
whatever happened there
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u/reddit_has_fallenoff 1d ago
Your brother billy, whatever happened there
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u/KaizenZazenJMN 14h ago
Khabib tried to break his head off like a Pez dispenser. Iām pretty sure that 99% of fighters that arenāt Dagestani would have tapped to that.
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u/Any_Brother7772 2h ago
You can definitely chok someone like that. Everything below the nose is the neck. However, the shattered jaw might come with it
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u/Kadir0 14h ago
Wasnāt it the same face crank that Shavkat survived in his last fight? Some people are born warriors
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u/Puzzleheaded_Pay4653 13h ago
are you mad? completely different position. being a warrior doesnāt make your jaw immune to being broken.
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u/Kadir0 13h ago
Oh i thought it was the same, my bad i am noob in mma
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u/Puzzleheaded_Pay4653 13h ago
thereās no shame in that but if youāre a noob in mma donāt be disrespecting professional fighters by saying theyāre not warriors
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u/Kadir0 13h ago
Didnāt he tap in against Nate Diaz though and it wasnāt a face crank but a normal choke, my point still stands
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u/Puzzleheaded_Pay4653 13h ago
you donāt have a point. whatās the point in not tapping and going to sleep? once you know you canāt escape, you tap, itās simple.
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u/Pukeinmyanus 1d ago
Lmao these comments are so dumb. So ok, take away the sport, and the rules, what would he have done after shattering his jaw? Get up and say sorry?
Dafuq are you even on about.
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u/brklynfightfan 1d ago
Khabib won the battle and war
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u/hit_that_hole_hard 1d ago
Conor is such an embarassment to Ireland its hilarious. Or maybe McGregor is the perfect representation of the country and its Ireland itself thatās an embarassment. Maybe its like now that Shane McGowan and Sinead OāConnor are gone Ireland literally has nothing left except McGregor and antisemitism.
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u/jteelin 7h ago
š¤£š¤£what are you talking about. If youāve ever been to ireland (which you probably havenāt) talk to anyone and they will tell you how much of an embarrassment conor is to Ireland. Nobody here has liked him since 2019. He has nothing got to do with Ireland heās disgraced himself. Now take that comment down u literally look like an absolute clown
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u/Pennypacker-HE 1d ago
To be fair it wasnāt a question of going to sleep. It was the question of a broken jaw or not.
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u/freshprince860 1d ago
Unfortunately if Conor did sleep he might be dead from the Russian onslaught that came after lol
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u/This1999s 1d ago edited 1d ago
What does he even mean by go sleep, the choke is not even on the neck. What he meant was let me break your jaw lol.
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u/Sanil_7777 1d ago
To be fair, breaking your jaw sounds much worse than being put to sleep by a choke
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u/SleepingInAJar_ 1d ago
Plus tapping isnāt a sign of weakness. Itās like a checkmate, itās over.
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u/nailedreaper 16h ago
For Dagestanis it is. I damn sure wouldn't wanna be Ankalaev returning to Dagestan after tapping in the last second of his UFC debut.
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u/WhoIsHe_19 20h ago
He could possibly have gone sleep had Khabib maintained that position and Conor didnāt tap. Contrary to what Dom Cruz says, Conor was gassed out and that fatigue combined with the relentless pressure Khabib applied to that face crank contorting Conorās body in such a way it restricted his breathing and was only a matter of time before he blacked out.
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u/Any_Brother7772 2h ago
That is definitely a choke aswell. In bjj everything below the nose is the neck
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u/iroquoispliskinV 1d ago
Well he did want to change his face, so maybe go sleep after I shatter your jaw lol
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u/wubbalubbadubdub45 1d ago
Conor never recovered from that ass whopping mentally. Khabib broke him and showed conor heās a quitter when itās tough, hard to play the tough guy after being humbled like that.
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u/CaptSaveAHoe55 Predator 14h ago
I mean I guess? He was a quitter against Nate, his ass was grass against Khabib and there is a difference
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u/nailedreaper 15h ago
Conor knew damn well he's a quitter after quitting three times before. I'd say he quit vs Nate way faster and easier than vs Khabib.
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u/wood_slingers 1d ago
So then anyone Khabib fought isnāt a warrior. He literally did the same thing to everyone
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u/JPDhahaLOL 1d ago
You cant take Khabib literally too much because hes not able to articulate as well in english. The main point is that Conor was talking so much about being a warrior that at the end of the fight he just tapped so easily. Hes trying to say that if Conor was this warrior he was talking about pre fight then he shouldntve tapped no matter what kind of hold he was in. He shouldve been ready to die in there like a warrior, cuz apparently Khabib was being for real and not just in there "for business"
None of khabibs opponents were talkin mad crazy like Conor was so hes not really talkin about them like that.
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u/BlueberryMuffin8462 1d ago
R/ufc or r/mma trying to avoid mentioning Khabib and Conor for a single day.
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u/Spaghetti_Night 1d ago
To be fair I dont think he was going to go to sleep I think his neck was going to get broken š
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u/Sensitive_Lock2953 1d ago
Thatās what Iām saying šš I think he fr wanted to kill Conor.
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u/Spaghetti_Night 23h ago
For real, he was trying to pull his damn head off. Khabib didnt F around in that fight.
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u/ZeroJudgmentKing 1d ago
That choke Khabib used on Conor, thereās no way Conor would have gone āto sleepā from that. That choke simply causes immense pain, and in the octagon, you have no choice but to tap out.
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u/hit_that_hole_hard 23h ago
Well then at the very least he should have taken the pain for such an inordinate length of time it left men shaking their heads. Instead, he gave up immediately like a bitch.
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u/Any_Brother7772 2h ago
You have Khabib on your back trying to open up your head like tupperware, and report back
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u/vikster16 1d ago
I mean what khabib doesn't understand is that its literally business for Conor. Imagine a Conor with the charisma of like Ryan Hall. Would they make even a tenth of what they did and be these superstars? Its literally just business. Khabib need to understand this someday.
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u/iHack3x2 22h ago
It isn't just business though, we saw how he acted, the words he used.Ā No different than "it's just a prank bro"Ā
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u/vikster16 8h ago
Colby vs Usman 2. Colby shit talked the entire way through. Usman didn't try to jump the cage and fight Colby's team. They respectfully disengaged. That's business. You don't get money in the fight game by being nice and respectful.
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u/iHack3x2 4h ago
That was Usman choice and he just settled it in the cage. I have no sympathy if Usman would have clocked Colby outside of the ring, I probably would have found it funny.Ā Ā
Money isn't over everything, what we promote and say echo through the community. Even beyond that, the attack on the bus? Oh but it's all business. We see how much Conor has unraveled, it was never just business. The guy has issues. And should have left the cage with a broken jaw, just like Colby.Ā
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u/BigTedBear 1d ago
Makes you wonder if Khabib thought about releasing the hold and just āSmeshingā too his heartās content till he beat the lucky charms out of him.
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u/Deleena24 1d ago
Once he knew he was hurting Connor he wasn't letting go. Even after the tap Herb Dean had to break the hold himself.
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u/psychedelijams 17h ago
He pretty much did this for the first four rounds. Heās been quoted in interviews before the fight saying he didnāt want to end it early, but make Conor suffer instead.
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u/jb-schitz-ki 19h ago
I'm a blue belt, so not an expert, but I have been put in a face crank. It sucks but you can tough it out longer than McGregor did, especially like Khabib says if it's a huge event and you've been talking mad shit, you gotta tough it out a little longer..
Let's not forget Connor also pussied out against Nate, he got touched a few times, shot a weak ass takedown, immediately gave his back, and then his neck. We've seen many people go out on their shields, Connor is not that kinda guy, when it gets ugly he looks for a way out.
Situation reversed, you think Khabib is tapping to that?
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u/FrequentlyAnnoying 18h ago
I like to think Khabib deliberately went for the neck crank, so Connor had to either tap or end up quadriplegic.
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u/Batfinklestein 13h ago
Not sticking up for clown Connor, but it'd be hard to go to sleep when he wasn't under his chin. The pain would make anyone tap I imagine.
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u/BusinessEcstatic5326 12h ago
People saying itās not a choke. It is. Conor was defending the choke by tucking his chin. By doing this, it will pressure the jaw. It is a choke. His chin/jaw is whatās going to feel that pressure/pain from that choke. Hence the tap
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u/NabsNabs09 9h ago
āThen go to sleepā this man wanted the put the man out of business for ever ahahahah
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u/OlderThanMillenials 2h ago
That choke was never gonna put him to sleep though. It would have broke his jaw first. Wasn't under the chin. I can imagine the pain is overwhelming. But fuck mcgregor, not making excuses for him.
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u/saltlakecity_sosweet 1d ago
Khabib made a fool of himself after that fight. Disgraceful.
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u/KisoGanda 22h ago
Disgraceful? Perhaps.Ā Unnecessary? Yes.Ā But when he jumped it was aimed at team Ireland vs. Dagis. The beef and adrenaline was still cooking between those two teams.Ā
But listen here when you run around like a rabid leprechaun, with your otherĀ leprechaun-goons, attacking a bus full of fighters. Literally smashing bus windows with chairs and consequently hurting several people who have no issues in your beef.Ā
Now that's fucking disgraceful and juvenile behaviour. And because he is star boy it's a slap on wrist. He could have potentially damaged another fighters eye with glass damage.Ā
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u/TheAngriestPoster Pervert eye happy, but your soul sad 22h ago
Fighter on fighter fighting, how horrifying
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u/miranaphoenix 1d ago
Comparing sport event to wars is weird. When russian government doing some injustice towards Dagestan he sits silent, he isnāt warrior. In generally itās understandable, not to throw yourself under the system, but then donāt act tough against Lobov, Conor too, because you feel safe
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u/ChocCooki3 1d ago
Comparing sport event to wars is weird
Conor was the one who brought up how hard the McGregor were.. fighting the English.
Then he go into the cage, a setting less dangerous than war and tapped.
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u/Skeptix_907 Dagestani Finger Trap 1d ago
When russian government doing some injustice towards Dagestan
Like what?
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u/vadillovzopeshilov 1d ago
Lol, youāll never get an answer, that moron is gaslighting anyone who falls for it.
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u/miranaphoenix 1d ago
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u/vadillovzopeshilov 1d ago
Lmfao, you still are, thatās a dead ass link š¤£š¤£š¤£
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u/miranaphoenix 1d ago
You can play an idiot as much as you want, but when dagestani women were beaten by omon and police he was silent like a sheep
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u/vadillovzopeshilov 1d ago
So do you have the sauce or more dead links to post?
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u/miranaphoenix 23h ago
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u/vadillovzopeshilov 23h ago
So this type of thing was done across the country, per the stories you cited. Even if thatās true, youāre making it seem like Dagestan was singled out, which it was definitely not
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u/miranaphoenix 1d ago
Like during forcing mobilization, they were brutally arresting and beating dagestani women who were protesting
https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ŠŃŠ¾ŃŠµŃŃŃ_Š²_ŠŠ°Š³ŠµŃŃŠ°Š½Šµ_(2022)
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u/Skeptix_907 Dagestani Finger Trap 22h ago
That wasn't against Dagestan specifically, mobilization occurred nationwide.
Anything else?
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u/BraveSirWobin 1d ago
Its a retarded take. When youre deep in an RNC, you start seeing tunnelvision, you gain nothing from passing out. Just tap. The islamist russian and his percieved masculinity can go back to the middle ages where he and his conquered tribe belongs.
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u/TremblinAspen 1d ago
Sir this is a Wendys.
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u/BraveSirWobin 1d ago
Yess, regurgitate what you've learned from everyone else. Stupid americans
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u/Deleena24 1d ago
Let me guess, you get all your knowledge beamed directly into your head instead of learning from other people š¤¦āāļø
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u/One_Program8405 1d ago
How can khabib talk about going to war when all he does is crotch sniff?
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u/YungDaggerDick19 š¹š½ššš š²šššš¹ 1d ago
If Khabib truly wanted to fight Conor for longer, he wouldnāt have went for the choke. He wanted out of there. If he wanted to smash him so bad, why stop it early? Go and fight for 5 full rounds, not sub him then attack other people lol
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u/TremblinAspen 1d ago
Heās a simple man, he sees neck he take neck. Conor likes to give his neck easily so grapplers instincts just kick in.
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u/bubbizz 1d ago
Khabib really broke Conor, he exposed him.. that was the moment Conor's fall began. :,(