Conor McGregor vs Khabib talks CONFIRMED as coach makes fight admission
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Conor McGregor vs Khabib Nurmagomedov in the works
UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has revealed the UFC brass are trying to book his proposed bout with Conor McGregor.
“Very soon, I’m going to come to the USA to begin my training camp,” 29-year-old Nurmagomedov said during a Live Raise broadcast. “When the UFC give me fight, I’m going to come to California and I’m going to stay there in AKA with my family nine weeks before fight.
“I’m going to defend my Inshallah (god willing) this year. This year, I want to defend my title.
“About opponents, I don’t know, to be honest. I don’t know. But the UFC is working on fight, me versus Conor.”
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Conor McGregor’s coach makes admission
McGregor’s striking coach Owen Roddy believes Nurmagomedov is the frontrunner to fight ‘The Notorious’ next.
“I don’t know, but I think he’s at the forefront,” Roddy told MMA NYTT’s Jim Edwards when discussing the former UFC lightweight champion's future.
"I always say, Conor wants the biggest fights he can possibly have so I think at the moment, Khabib seems to be that guy.”
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Conor McGregor’s weakness explained
Renowned mixed martial arts coach Firas Zahabi believes McGregor fatigues in his fights due to his body being made up of fast-twitch muscle fibers.
“I think it’s partly genetic,” Zahabi said during a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast. “I call it the touch of death. He’s got that left hand, it’s the touch of death. That touch of death comes at a cost.
“How do you have the touch of death? Where does power come from? Number one on the list, number one, is where your muscle is attached to the bone. It’s genetic.
“So, Mike Tyson, he has a powerful left hook not because his coach taught him how to hit a left hook.
“He could have hit a left hook like that if he had a mediocre trainer.”