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18th August 2018
09:37am BST

"My prediction is Conor McGregor's going to win. That's just me. I'm not really biased against Khabib. I know Khabib, he does his thing, he has like 900 takedowns. He's nice, he's legit. But I feel like Conor's got an It factor that Khabib probably does not have."https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/1026080129917898752
"As a wrestler, you control the pace of the fight by keeping it on your feet or taking it to the ground, but I believe Conor has good enough takedown defence. He's an athletic dude. So he's not going to be held down like Edson Barboza. You assume Conor McGregor will have a little better standup like Al Iaquinta did as opposed to a guy who's going to go down and get beat up on. I expect Conor McGregor to go out there and beat Nurmagomedov, personally."When asked to give an assessment of McGregor's wrestling abilities, Caldwell said the Irishman was 'decent, not great'. He believes that McGregor has a long way to go to get to Georges St-Pierre's level, for example. However, he feels that other factors will be at play for the Nurmagomedov fight.
"I think Conor's got a ways to go to get to that point. He has abilities and I'm want to say, intangibles that you can't see. He has those and I think that will get him through.I think he'll get up and at least defend a takedown. On top of that, he's got fucking crazy hands. Khabib's got to get past that first." "I've bet against Conor McGregor for a long time and he continued to prove me wrong. Anybody that can prove me wrong, I'm not going to continue to bet against. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, you know."
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