Kevin Lee will stop Khabib's rise at LW

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As long as he's healthy and has a good weight cut he can beat any LW. Khabib can't rag doll him like he does with other fighters. He also has better standup than him.
 
I respectfully disagree. The cardio gap is too great.

Maybe at 170 though.
 
I do think Kevin Lee would beat Conor.
 
He had a pretty obvious staph infection in the Ferguson fight. Using that to gage his cardio may not be accurate.
 
Probably the only lw in the top 10 that would look to take Khabib down,would be an interesting matchup dynamic but Khabib would be the rightful favourite, let's see Lee vs Justin.
 
This could actually be an interesting fight. Lee has an explosive power double, and if khabib tries walking him down he could get caught in one. Khabib hasn’t fought any great wrestlers and while he’s amazing on top, we don’t know how he would do off of his back. Lee could steal some rounds and has much better striking.
None of it would matter tho if lee gets taken down and can’t get up tho.
 
People need to realize that Lee isn’t a great fighter. He’s good, but not great. Terrible chin, ok striking, and good grappling. His cardio is questionable.
 
OriginMMA said:
People need to realize that Lee isn’t a great fighter. He’s good, but not great. Terrible chin, ok striking, and good grappling. His cardio is questionable.
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Well, he doesn't have to be a great fighter to beat Kabob. He just has to have good TDD and better than average striking because kabob runs with like Ronda trying to get the takedown.


He did very well against Ferg and the sequence that lead to his defeat was started by a brain fart.

If Kabob can't take you down he can't win. About as 1 dimensional as it gets. See Demian Maia.
 
Necromantic said:
Well, he doesn't have to be a great fighter to beat Kabob. He just has to have good TDD and better than average striking because kabob runs with like Ronda trying to get the takedown.

He did very well against Ferg and the sequence that lead to his defeat was started by a brain fart.
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Lol doesn’t have to be a great fighter to bear Khabib. You have to be pretty stupid to actually think that. Having good takedown defense isn’t good enough. Barboza has good takedown defense and still got mauled in every facet of mma.
 
I think he'd do fookin nuttin but I'd like to watch him try regardless. It's probably Tony or bust as far as competition for Khabib goes.

What I really want is for Edgar to move back up to 155 but he's so undersized Khabib would probably suplex him into bolivian.
 
Necromantic said:
Well, he doesn't have to be a great fighter to beat Kabob. He just has to have good TDD and better than average striking because kabob runs with like Ronda trying to get the takedown.


He did very well against Ferg and the sequence that lead to his defeat was started by a brain fart.

If Kabob can't take you down he can't win. About as 1 dimensional as it gets. See Demian Maia.
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Edson had good takedown defense and better than average striking. Try again.
 
OriginMMA said:
People need to realize that Lee isn’t a great fighter. He’s good, but not great. Terrible chin, ok striking, and good grappling. His cardio is questionable.
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He submitted Chiesa (7-2 UFC), Trinaldo (11-3 UFC) and Magomed (2-0 UFC) all in a row.

Kevin is one of the best MMA adapted submission fighters in the sport right now. You have no idea what you're talking about.
 
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