5 Factors That Make Conor McGregor a Better Professional Fighter: UFC News: Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov have fought one of the greatest grudge matches inside the cage that the UFC has ever seen. After the post-fight brawl between the two fighters following Khabib’s submission win over Conor McGregor, the professional relationship between the fighters completely collapsed and the relationship has only worsened since then. Follow UFC News Updates with Insidesport.IN
The fans of UFC and MMA have always debated over the fact that who amongst the two is a better professional fighter? In this article, we shall answer your question backed up by practical reasoning.
5 Factors Which Make Conor McGregor A Better Fighter Than Khabib Nurmagomedov
- Conor McGregor has competed in more weight classes than Khabib Nurmagomedov: Conor McGregor aims to compete in four weight classes before moving into the middleweight weight category. The two-time former champion has competed in the featherweight, lightweight and welterweight categories, whereas Khabib until he retired only competed in the lightweight division. Khabib was the longest-reigning UFC lightweight Champion ever to have competed from April 2018 to March 2021.
- Conor has never missed a single weight in his entire fighting career: Conor is undoubtedly the best featherweight in UFC. He holds a fight record of 22 wins. Khbib Nurmagomedov has officially missed one weight in his fighting career, which was when he was weighing 158.5 pounds against his then-time opponent Abel Trujillo in the year 2013.
5 Factors That Make Conor McGregor a Better Professional Fighter Than Khabib Nurmagomedov
- Conor McGregor has appeared to rematch his opponents whereas Conor McGregor has never opted for any rematch with any of his opponents: Conor McGregor has rematched his opponents like Dustin Poirier and Nate Diaz whereas, Conor McGregor has never accepted a single rematch with any of his opponents once he claimed his victory.
- Conor has participated in professional boxing bouts whereas Khabib has never participated in boxing matches: Khabib until he retired, was a great MMA fighter, but he never participated in any of the boxing professional bouts also his boxing skills were nowhere near the pro boxing level. This has led MMA fans to believe that it would be difficult for Khabib to even be anywhere near the top 10 fighters in boxing.
Conor McGregor participated in various professional boxing matches, he fought against boxing professional star Floyd Mayweather.
- UFC has never had a bigger draw of fans towards it than Conor McGregor has brought: The UFC has operated as a pay-per-view company since the beginning, but it has never had a period of time when commerce was as prosperous as it has been since Conor McGregor’s fights. The PPV in the headline fights against Nate Diaz and the rematch is the proof.
Khabib vs Conor McGregor is still one of the most anticipated bouts for the fans. If someday Khabib decided to make his return to the MMA world, Conor McGregor would be the first opponent that the fans would want him to go against.
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