Paid Members Egg Shen Posted April 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 6, 2018 yeah, easy to forget theres an actual show tomorrow night. Khabib's preperation must be in a bit of a spin because media must be banging down his door, they need to isolate him. Crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted April 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 6, 2018 Just give Ferguson the LW title. He's done nothing wrong. McG certainly shouldn't have it, and Nurmagomedov should have to earn it after his behaviour as well. McGregor is basically the spoilt kid of MMA. As alluded to earlier, he's been allowed to get away with so much shit for so long, and has unprecedentedly put the UFC on the back foot (which I applauded at the time, and still do to a degree), he's effectively come up thinking he's untouchable. Not just MMA either - it's been a whole world of people bending over backwards for him, and now he thinks it's his world. I wouldn't be surprised if it had something to with his association with the Irish gangs, either, in addition to the drugs. The way his career has gone is virtually cliché: the meteoric rise to fame and wealth, the spectacular fall from grace. All we need now is the dramatic turning his life around, and we have a movie. But in all seriousness, guy needs to grow the fuck up. Regardless of what happens to him, his kid grows up looked after, but come on - it's about more than money. Kid needs his dad to be there, not in jail, and, more importantly, needs his dad to be someone he can respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 1 minute ago, Carbomb said: Just give Ferguson the LW title. He's done nothing wrong. Apart from kicking steel poles in front of news crews to act hard and getting injured in the process. The weigh in happens in a few hours, I still reckon Khabib isnât making weight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted April 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 6, 2018 Just now, TildeGuy~! said: Apart from kicking steel poles in front of news crews to act hard and getting injured in the process. The weigh in happens in a few hours, I still reckon Khabib isnât making weight. Well, if the steel poles decide they felt victimised and want to press charges, fair enough. He's done something stupid, but he hasn't done anything wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted April 6, 2018 Author Paid Members Share Posted April 6, 2018 7 hours ago, TildeGuy~! said: weigh in happens in a few hours, I still reckon Khabib isnât making weight. Holloway mightn't make weight either considering the short notice and him wanting the fight at 170 originally. And yeah, Ferguson was dumb as fuck but at least his stupidity harmed nobody but himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_mole Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 They were both to be taken by George Lockhart but Khabib pulled out, as its a conflict of interest and who knows what he says to one of them. Joanna is with Lockhart now as well but obviously she has nothing to do with that fight but isn't their more than one guy? If I'm Anthony Pettis I would try and sneak a backwards title shot just in case, he's nothing to lose besides a beaten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 The company needs Khabib to make weight and win this fight, as it'll provide some sort of order to the division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamTH17 Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 10 minutes ago, the_mole said: They were both to be taken by George Lockhart but Khabib pulled out, as its a conflict of interest and who knows what he says to one of them. Joanna is with Lockhart now as well but obviously she has nothing to do with that fight but isn't their more than one guy? If I'm Anthony Pettis I would try and sneak a backwards title shot just in case, he's nothing to lose besides a beaten. That's a shout I hadn't even considered in terms of Pettis, I bet he's still cutting weight just in case Khabib/Max don't make it. His record as of late obviously isn't deserving of a title shot, but in these situations, especially after the fiasco surrounding this card it wouldn't shock me. Not much more I can add in regards to McGregor. He's obviously been spiralling out of control for a while and deserves every consequence he hopefully faces, from both the law and the UFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted April 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 6, 2018 They should've made Caceres vs Pettis. Fun little curtain jerker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Check out the end of this video, man. I know we're all talking about Conor being a mental bastard, but I think @Carbomb may be onto something with Khabib. Look at the expression and eyes on that guy. He looks like a cold motherfucker.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted April 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 6, 2018 I'm not saying it's an absolute certainty, but there've been all sorts of hints and indicators that he's a nasty bastard, irrespective of the Kadyrov connection. And as @the_mole mentioned, the guy grew up in Daghestan - whilst it's not a given, societies like that, with that level of fear and paranoia running high, have a tendency to breed sociopaths and psychopaths, people who've been shaped by their surroundings to have survivalist mindsets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted April 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 6, 2018 Yeh i dont think Khabib is a man to be fucked with. Did anyone catch his 45 min sit down with Ariel earlier in the week? came off well but theres always a aura of seriousness to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 An interesting little story I read a few days back. Shows the kind of influence the bugger wields in his home nation it seems; Quote  A pair of gentlemen sporting AK-47s and waiting for you is usually a bad sign. But for freestyle wrestler James Green, they were the passport to first-class treatment, courtesy of UFC lightweight title challenger Khabib Nurmagomedov, who on April 7 faces interim champ Tony Ferugson at UFC 223 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Green, a two-time world champion and NCAA Division-I wrestler for the University of Nebraska, showed up in Dagestan expecting to wrestle and go home. His armed escort had other ideas. âThey had this other guy, like the English interpreter,â Green told FloWrestling. âTheyâre like, âDo you guys know Khabib? Khabib told these guys to show you a good time â take care of you.'â And take care of him in the good way. Green and his teammates soon found themselves shuttled around town in an armed car, shopping alone at a shopping center, and gorging gratis while the escort waited outside. âYou donât want to be disrespectful â theyâre like, âEat!â Green said. âIâve still got to make weight.â After the tournament, they had an afterparty and took another trip to the shopping center. One of his teammates eyed a stuffed wolf. âYou want a wolf?â the Russian handler asked. One showed up hours later as the team readied themselves to leave. A fresh wolf skin, smelling like itâd just been skinned. The teammate shoved it into his pack and they got on their way. Green laughs at the whole thing now. As a wrestler, heâs used to some pretty Spartan accomodations. For one surreal moment, he got to feel more like a pop star. Nurmagomedov sure is a good guy to know when youâre in Dagestan.   Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Also, Dana has spoken to McGregor via text... https://twitter.com/FTFonFS1/status/982223878461128704 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted April 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 6, 2018 8 minutes ago, Egg Shen said: Yeh i dont think Khabib is a man to be fucked with. Did anyone catch his 45 min sit down with Ariel earlier in the week? came off well but theres always a aura of seriousness to him. I watched it last night. Yeah, he doesn't give the impression that he's a barrel of laughs. He came off like a cool bloke but he's not exaclty Matt Serra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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