"You reap what you sow" and "two wrongs don't make a right" are almost polar opposites though
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There's a clear video of Conor throwing the first punch in the brawl btw
Yeah supposedly retiring unless he could fight GSP, that won't be happening now. He could retire but this childish shit tarnishes his legacy. He had done well not to get involved with McGregor wind-ups in the build up.
Tony Ferguson "These two knuckleheads making this sport look bad. I don't need a belt to know I'm the champ"
Go Ferguson!
Go Ferguson!
Aye it was hilarious tbh. Enjoyed it much more than the actual match
Bullshit
So he's a sinister nutjob.
In which case you are similarly disturbed.
Think his anger is motivated by an as yet undeclared sympathy.You should work on your anger before posting instead.
You have to admire Khabib’s balls all the same. McGregor’s whole team went for Khabib alone in April. Khabib went alone for McGregor’s whole team tonight when he jumped that fence. He is a scary individual.
Yeah - that’s the moment that he won the fight
Who's defending what Conor has done in the past in criticizing Khabib?
Am I missing posts? Is it people I've blocked?
The "well Conor did X" only works against people who've defended him doing that stuff. Otherwise it's something you'd expect from an 8 year old
McGregor looks absolutely pathetic there, like he's getting a slapping from his dad.
That's exactly what happened.
I'm not going to defend any of the nonsense Conor has done, the shit with the bus is being handled by the police.
But sadly for Khabib the two incidents aren't linked. He attacked someone in the crowd after the fight while representing the UFC as a champion, he's done i doubt we'll see him in the UFC again.
Theres precedent for this Paul Daley punched another fighter after a fight and that was the end of his UFC career. He'll never get back in.
The handbags aside, I think Conor was exposed as a bit of a one trick pony tonight. If you neutralize his punching power by demoralizing him on the ground, he has nothing else left in his bag of tricks to win the fight.
He's an animal.You have to admire Khabib’s balls all the same. McGregor’s whole team went for Khabib alone in April. Khabib went alone for McGregor’s whole team tonight when he jumped that fence. He is a scary individual.
To be fair he did surround Artem with a gang too !
People take this sort of thing way too seriously. It's entertainment!
In all fairness that's not entirely true. You still have some societies around the world where you actually do have blasphemy laws implemented.
Did I say people were defending Conor? Or did I say there are double standards?
For one, Conor gets his check tonight and Khabib hasn't so far.
People are saying Khabib should be suspended when Conor was fighting for the belt tonight after doing something equally stupid. That's double standards, no?
Somebody should be doing press conference appearances for Tony Ferguson and let him to just stick to fighting. The man is as entertaining in a cage as he's annoyingly dumb and boring when he starts talking.
And of course, there'll be no punishment for him for doing that.
I'm assuming given his username that he doesn't live in one of those. Unless something drastic has happened in Rotherham recently
I’d forgotten that. The incident which set this whole thing in motion, basically. Lobov’s a little weasel.
You have to admire Khabib’s balls all the same. McGregor’s whole team went for Khabib alone in April. Khabib went alone for McGregor’s whole team tonight when he jumped that fence. He is a scary individual.
Meh, this whole thing started with Khabib and his team surrounding McGregor's teammate while he was alone. Khabib ain't exactly above bully boy stuff either.
I've never seen career suicide like this. The commission are almost forced to take action since these scenes are so widely broadcast.
Khabib may have gotten away with it if it ends after the pull apart but even then he puts spectators at ringside in danger but having a fighter attacked in the octagon? That'll kick the commission into gear..
Ridiculous. This is worse than the bus incident imo.
What a lovely bookend to the most disgusting rivalry in sport.
Khabib may have gotten away with it if it ends after the pull apart but even then he puts spectators at ringside in danger but having a fighter attacked in the octagon? That'll kick the commission into gear..
Ridiculous. This is worse than the bus incident imo.
What a lovely bookend to the most disgusting rivalry in sport.
That's what I was talking about. He just folded like a lawn chair. It worked for him though, sort of.
Could we apply the same logic to Conor throwing a punch at the guy who was on top of the cage as well? Or is it different because the guy was coming in the cage and not the crowd?
I'm not being facetious btw, I'm genuinely asking.
Conor's gone to attack referees in Bellator before. It's not that different is it?
Tony Ferguson is almost as unlikeable as Khabib and Conor.
Khabib has done that to literally everyone he's ever faced. He's just so good.
Conor had as much chance of beating Mayweather as he did Khabib.
What do you think that has to do with what happens immediately after a fight IN the octagon, which is supposed to be a sacred place. Kinda like the Holy Ground in the Highlander films.
Actions away from the octagon can be looked at from multiple angles and considerations; what happens in the octagon is much more cut and dry.
If Khabib is stripped off the back of this, nobody should be surprised.
You can't do what he did and not be in the line of fire for a DQ. It should have a very real chance of happening.
I was half expecting them to announce a DQ right then and there, tbh. Khabib has screwed himself. Royally.
They should be celebrating the victory now, not wondering about all the fallout that could come their way.
There was a number of times during the stand-up where Conor tried to be disrespectful and show he's the man instead of being about his business and treating Khabib as a legitmate threat standing up i.e. he believed far too much in his own hype to the point he betrayed his own style, like an idiot.
He's there effectively brawling just to show he's the man - what Khabib did was stupid too, just standing there trading to show Conor he ain't shit, so to speak. Machismo and raw hatred really blurred the lines there and I bet Conor's rueing that now because he took away his only chance to win by being so stupidly proud and egotistical.
People don't seem to be processing the stupidity of Khabib's actions, like it's a WWE event instead of the most viewed Championship event the sport has ever seen. Khabib could well be made an example of for that reason alone.
Of course he'll get back in.
I haven't seen it, but yeah if he punched someone unprovoked outside a fight then he should be done as well.
I'm wondering if his striking lacked snap tonight because the early takedown immediately sapped his power or if he came into the fight like that due to the two years off?
Either way what surprised me today was less how one dimensional he was and more how ineffective that one dimension turned out to be. Khabib pretty much had parity on the feet.
Ok.
I read "some people" as in this thread. If you mean higher ups in UFC I agree. The special treatment he gets because he draws so much is a huge problem and has contributed to a lot of the problems we saw tonight.
I can't agree that someone getting away with something they shouldn't have means you should too. The solution is to punish both offenders, not neither! Tough to do retroactively but there needs to be a first for all enforcements. If they clamp down on this shit for everyone including the company golden boys I'd be happiest!
It looks like it was one of Khabibs team who jumped into the ring when he won. Then Khabib jumped out, and this guy was probably attempting to follow him out. Conor jumped up and swings at him. This set off the in the ring shitshow.
Paul Daley?
I doubt it it's been 8 years since his last UFC fight, pretty sure Dana White has said he'll never fight in the UFC again.
I've seen the footage of him lightly shoving one ref in bellator. You're not calling that an "attack" are you?
Yeah he really should be, the sport doesn't need this type of shit. Not sure White will be too keen on having Khabib and his entourage involved again if they act like this.