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10th October 2018
09:48pm BST

"Say what you want about his actions after the fight but everything up until he finished Conor McGregor, in my opinion, from Thursday September 20 - which was the first face-off in New York City - to Herb Dean pulling him off of Conor, Khabib handled himself brilliantly. "He just dismissed that narrative and then some. He made me feel like I wasted a whole lot of hot air talking about how he would handle that moment and on the other side, I thought Conor looked great all week.
"But all of a sudden on fight night, it seemed like his colour was gone, his confidence didn't seem there, the smile wasn't there, there were maybe some rumblings about some things or some circumstances backstage but Khabib handled the fight part of this with flying colours and proved that he probably is the most dominant force in the game, as advertised."At no point in the show did Anik expand on what he'd heard about McGregor's warm-up but he did refer to it again moments later when he began asking co-host Kenny Florian for his opinion on the bout. He asked: "I know you picked Conor McGregor and I know maybe if you had been able to make the pick right as the fight was beginning... you didn't necessarily love the visual out of Conor McGregor and some things that maybe we were hearing but overall thoughts on what we saw in terms of the action?" Anik has since given some insight to curious fans via Twitter. https://twitter.com/Jon_Anik/status/1050092252041764865 You can listen to the entire Anik and Florian podcast here.
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