Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-85.255.234.234-20180402024853/@comment-32783267-20180403155418

GBL1111 wrote: Holloway's name and title will save the UFC 223 main event financially, but not literally. This fight is ridiculous. An injured lightweight stepping up on 6 days notice to fight a much larger top-pressure grappler... The fight that should be happening is Khabib vs Eddie. Too bad...

And now Dana says he'll never book this fight again AND is stripping Tony. Well... assuming Conor actually fights again (I'll believe it when I see it), if Conor is next when does Tony get his shot? The whole situation sucks and yes, I'd rather see Khabib vs Ortega too, but it's all about the $$$ they'd lose. Tony 'blew' his shit to become big for sure. He was dissing on Khabib for pulling out in UFC 209 at the conference for UFC 223.. and now he got all the backlash unfortunately especially considering how fickle the fans these days are..

Eddie made his point clearly though. He thought the fight was going to happen three weeks before and.. bam.. UFC 'calling' Eddie to save the card. But it's obvious that they only want Max if you consider Ortega's side of the story. It's all about potential big superfights like I said above. (Ortega could possibly upset Khabib due to his Black Magic Jiu-Jitsu so UFC didn't risk with that.)

One thing I would like to point out was that Khabib is not really that unbeatable like most people are trying to convince. Firstly, He has sloppy striking which could be tee'd off by solid counter fighters like Conor. He got away with his striking because his opponents were more afraid of his wrestling as we'd seen with Barboza, whose punches land clean on Khabib as he was closing in but Edson was backing up so the punches failed to inflict damage or instill hespect of his striking. Secondly, his best takedowns come from forcing people to the fence with his awkward striking but isn't really good at fighting off the fence himself, as in Tibau fight. So it appears that a fighter who will trump Khabib needs to have solid striking, TDD good enough that he would stay in front of Khabib, and ability to pivot around the fences.. Aldo came into my mind, but he's battle-worn so Conor has a fair chance of pulling it off too.. As for Max, he loves to fight inside the pocket, which would play into Khabib's game but his volume and accuracy could overwhelm and curb Khabib's forward pressure.. but we don't really know how good Max's ground game is and he isn't even 90+% as for now.. It's really bad for the Blessed..

What do you think of RDA/Colby in my reply to you in the other thread?.. and oh.. Matt Brown is injured...