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McGregor starts training ahead of return.

Looking highly likely its Khabib and not Mayweather due to the nature of the sparring sessions being wrestling focused.

I call it, the fight is announced for UFC Russia. McGregor baits Khabib into talking about KO's and the Russians along with Khabib go Jose Aldo all over again, he'll successfully bait Khabib into trading on the feet and then he'll knock Khabib out cold in the first round. The whole buildup will get turned into Khabib knocking Conor out which throws out the fact he's nowhere near conor in striking. Just like Aldo he'll forget he's in Mma, he'll come in hot and throw his plan out and then goodnight.

Sadly that's the way the fight has to go for Khabib to come out with anything. The anti-Mcgregor lot would love Khabib to wrestle him for 5 rounds but it won't fly for long. He'll quickly go down as the man that hugged McGregor to a 5 round win.

That's the McGregor issue nowadays. Unless you beat him at his own game like Diaz did, you're still the loser overall. A repeat of Diaz or a clean knockout are the only ways you really win this.

Strangely enough it was Nate Diaz that summed this up best. When McGregor attacked that bus, Khabib wanted nothing to do with him. Had it been Diaz we'd have seen a brawl. Conor is already one up and it hasn't even started.