r/ufc • u/SpecialistLost6572 • 1d ago

Khabib's mindset on Conor fight 😮

No wonder Khabib is 29-0 💪

"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/bubbizz 1d ago

Khabib really broke Conor, he exposed him.. that was the moment Conor's fall began. :,(

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u/Nknk- 1d ago

McGregor was broken before the fight.

There's a reason he turned up to the presser hammered and in ultra-aggro mode.

Anyone who's dealt with Dublin scummers like him can tell you that's how they operate when they're scared, especially if their mates can't help them (they nearly always attack in packs), you get the over the top aggression we saw from Conor. It's all a display to make you think they're some sort of wild man that it's just not worth your while to fight.

McGregor was trying, and failing, to get Khabib to feel like he'd bitten off more than he could chew and try and rattle him.

Ironically you could see it in his walkout how nervous McGregor was. Watch that one compared to like his Aldo one side by side.

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u/Mad-Gavin 1d ago

I swear these elite Dagestani fighters have an aura about them that makes their opponents nervous and they try to overcompensate with their behavior in the lead-up to the fight as a coping mechanism.

First it was with Khabib vs Conor, we know the story there. But then it was Islam vs Charles, if you remember while they didn't exactly have beef with each other, Charles was uncharacteristically emotional in the lead-up to their fight, saying he would kill Islam (which he never did for any other opponent). Charles even admitted he didn't want to fight Islam in the first place. The result spoke for itself.

Now its Merab who tried to duck Umar and now that he can't, is also getting clearly (and uncharacteristically) emotional and overcompensating with his behavior.

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u/Ill_Source_6908 1d ago

Yeah there was that weird Charles vid where he was going off in his car about Islam. Charles didn’t even react like that when Chandler and Justin kept calling him a quitter

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u/Mad-Gavin 1d ago

I remember Charles shoving Justin's unconscious body off of him after he choked him out. But that was an action in the head of the moment and given the context pre-fight with the controversial weight-miss, stripped title and Justin calling him a quitter, I don't think anyone holds that against him.

Islam situation though? Yeah that was out of character for him.

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u/calm_down_dearest 1d ago

It's the stoicism, you see the same behaviour with Alex Pereira's opponents. Something about that stony, lack of emotion seems to provoke an emotional response in an opponent.

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u/Mad-Gavin 1d ago

I remember how hard the pre-fight stare-down went in the Islam vs Charles fight.

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u/numbersev 1d ago

They're like the Afghanis. Mountainous warrior-types of people who fight throughout their entire lives.

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u/iHack3x2 1d ago

Damn I wanted to say you're wrong, but then you listed the examples. I still think it's coincidence more than anything or being champ and somehow becoming an underdog. Like this guy is going to take it all and hardly anyone believes I have a chance. 

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u/Nick_III 23h ago

I distinctly remember Conor looking around the arena during Herb's final warning after intros. I texted my buddy and told him Conor looked very uncertain in that moment because I had only ever seen him do that 1 other time and it was before the first Diaz fight.