Las Vegas police arrested the two guys from Khabib's team who went after Conor, but Conor told the police that he did not want to press charges, so they just let them go.
They might have trouble getting a visa in the future, and there's no way they are cornering Khabib again in Nevada. [Reply]
Regarding the fight itself, it was a great, entertaining fight. Those who were bored probably haven't watched enough MMA to know what they were seeing, which is fine, that would have been me too about 5 years ago.
There's a difference between wrestlers who lay and pray, and don't do much to advance their position, and wrestlers who are constantly working to advance and beat the hell out of their opponent when they get into a dominant position.
The reason why it stalled out a bit early in the fight was because Conor's defensive wrestling was actually not bad at all, Khabib couldn't advance as easily as he usually does because Conor had obviously been working hard to prepare and his ground game isn't quite as bad as we thought. By the 4th round, Conor was too tired to stop Khabib, and that was it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by alnorth:
Regarding the fight itself, it was a great, entertaining fight. Those who were bored probably haven't watched enough MMA to know what they were seeing, which is fine, that would have been me too about 5 years ago.
There's a difference between wrestlers who lay and pray, and don't do much to advance their position, and wrestlers who are constantly working to advance and beat the hell out of their opponent when they get into a dominant position.
The reason why it stalled out a bit early in the fight was because Conor's defensive wrestling was actually not bad at all, Khabib couldn't advance as easily as he usually does because Conor had obviously been working hard to prepare and his ground game isn't quite as bad as we thought. By the 4th round, Conor was too tired to stop Khabib, and that was it.
It was an awesome fight. Khabib just totally out classed Conor in the fight. He had absolutely no chance. I don't like watching fights where guys just lay on top of each other, but with Khabib it is different. He is constantly trying to move and get in position to do damage and like always he did what he was trying. I wouldn't mind seeing a rematch, but if there is a rematch it's going to end the same way this one did. Khabib is just so much better. I text a buddy who was watching and he tried saying something was wrong with Conor and he wasn't the same as usual. I said yeah it looked like that because he was completely out matched. [Reply]