Conor McGregor Reminds UFC Fans of Irish MMA Legacy with Prime Era Clips After Khabib Nurmegomedov’s Dagestan Superiority Claims
Conor McGregor has risen from obscurity once again with clips of his own time in the sport.
This comes just a day after Khabib Nurmagomedov boldly claimed that Ireland’s MMA had nothing compared to its counterparts in Dagestan
While it still does very little to prove Nurmagomedov wrong, it is practically a highlight reel of himself for a few years compared to videos of Khabib and Islam Makhachev grappling.
McGregor’s clip has footage of his ‘prime’ i.e., fights with Nate Diaz, Eddie Alvarez, and Dustin Poirier among others, where he is seen being quick and precise with his striking, knocking people out in style.
In comparison, the Dagestani clips have Nurmagomedov and Makhachev primarily on the ground, with his opponents on their back.
What McGregor perhaps intends to insinuate by using this clip is that he was far more entertaining, because in most of the clips from Dagestan, the fighters seem to be dominating on the ground, just as McGregor was seen dominating on his feet.
Earlier yesterday, Khabib had boldly claimed that Ireland’s talent pool wasn’t very deep with only a couple of known fighters like Conor and Paul Hughes (PFL).