[Vlog] UFC229 Post-Fight Brawl: Like watching a King abandon his coronation to scrap a foot-soldier! SMH
So in today's video I'm following up on my previous post and talk about the UFC229 post fight brawl.
I talk about the history leading up to the moment of madness where UFC Lightweight Champion, Khabib Nurmagomedov jumped into the crowd to fight Conor McGregor's team-mate Dilon Danis.
Why would a man, in his moment of glory, reaching the pinnacle of achievement in his sport choose to risk it all to scrap with a relatively unknown fighter?
In today's video I discuss why:
Ultimately the main reason why I was moved to do a video is that I'm big on sports people and artists getting the full fruits of their labour. So when I see a talented fighter work his way to the ultimate negotiating position, after years of being unjustly marginalised, only to give that up for a few seconds of madness... you can imagine how galling I find that.
Now his fate lies in the hands of the Nevada Athletic Commission. They get to set the agenda for Khabib. They will decide whether he gets suspended and how much he gets fined. At a time when Khabib should be holding all the cards and determining the course of his career.
While I understand that money and control isn't everything and there are "bigger" things like principle, honour and respect in play, Khabib is ultimately in the fight business. It's a path he has chosen. Khabib knows his obligations from the moment he steps out from changing room into the big lights to the moment his goes back backstage. It's not just an obligation to the UFC, it's an obligation to himself as a professional athlete, as a martial artist and as a man.
Khabib isn't the first and won't be the last sportsman to endure trash talk and provocation that is beyond the pale. We live in the age of the Troll so it's likely to get worse before it gets better. It is something that everybody in the public eye has to learn to deal with or at the very least find clandestine ways to deal with it.
Anyway, I hope the Commission take into account the mitigating circumstances and go lenient on Khabib. After all no real harm was done and no charges pressed. UFC229 has set-up some exciting match-ups in the Lightweight division especially with the showing of Tony Ferguson and Anthony Pettis in the co-main event. However I think we can do with waiting a few years before reliving the drama of a Khabib-Conor rematch... however something tells me it will happen sooner than that!
I think khalib will get suspended and stripped for about a year. I hope not! The Nevada state commission was right there and was running for his life at the event 😂😂🙌🏼
I'm sure they were! They'll probably be running his MMA life for the next few months as well. Damn shame!
or it is a pretty good promo for fight 2
I don't see how Khabib is going to get out of a suspension. As a professionally-trained fighter, he has the potential to do so much more damage in an altercation than a normal person. That's one of the reasons for the Octagon. It's to contain the fight and keep the spectators safe. It's also part of good business. If people fear for their safety, some are not going to be as likely to attend. Jumping into the crowd can cause a panic which could lead to more people being hurt by the stampede of people trying to get away.
Yes, I do think it's unfortunate and it was "only 20 seconds" but it was entirely outside the fight. Rather than celebrating with his team, Khabib chose to attack a non-combatant in a crowd of bystanders. I'm not surprised that Dilon Danis was convinced not to press criminal charges as that would look terrible for the face of the sport. However, it would be a sham if Khabib wasn't suspended. The UFC must have a strict zero-tolerance policy for extracurricular fighting, specifically while operating as an agent of the business.
Like you said, it would be one thing if they met on their own time at their own place and fought. That's their business. As it is, Khabib attempted to assault another "employee" on company property on company time. I think he'll get to keep the money, but he'll likely be stripped of the title and suspended by both the UFC and the Nevada Gaming Commission. That's just my opinion, but there's no excuse for what Khabib did. If he doesn't end up paying for it now, someone else will be more likely to do the same in the future and that could jeopardize the future of the sport. As a businessman, Dana White shouldn't let that happen.
I think he won't be stripped. He's getting a massive following these days and public seems to be turning against Conor. Khabib can easily dominate the division for the next 5 years. Easy! Dana as a businessman knows what he's doing and IMO in the name of the business, he won't hinder one of his biggest stars, especially since Jon and Conor both start to be more hated than liked. Soo I actually believe the exact opposite will happen. He might get a suspension from Nevada tho. Half a year - year? Not that bad..
Islam Machachev should be banned for life tho.
I'm not an expert on sporting suspensions, so I think your guess has as much, if not more chance of being correct as mine. I was using the NFL as a semi-guideline. If a player throws a punch during the game, they're ejected and fined. The fight was already over, so there isn't a direct correlation (and UFC isn't obligated to do things the same way as the NFL).
Here's what I found out though:
According to bloodyelbow.com, Dana White has said that the Nevada Gaming Commission is withholding all of Khabib's $2 million paycheck at this time. https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2018/10/9/17955586/ufc-229-mma-news-interview-khabib-nurmagomedov-conor-mcgregor-controversial-las-vegas-fight-eagle
According to mmafighting.com, Dana White has said that Khabib will not be stripped of his title and that he's anticipating Khabib will be suspended for 4-6 months.
https://www.mmafighting.com/2018/10/9/17956700/dana-white-khabib-nurmagomedov-will-absolutely-not-be-stripped-of-title-for-role-in-ufc-229-brawl
ESPN said that Dana White had said on Saturday that if Khabib was suspended for an extended period of time that UFC would consider stripping him of the title.
http://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/24933080/conor-mcgregor-khabib-nurmagomedov-face-nsac-complaints-brawl
CBSsports said he wouldn't be stripped of the title, but that he and Conor had been suspended for 10 days, pending hearing in November. Also, Khabib's dad is planning on doling out some serious punishment to his son.
https://www.cbssports.com/mma/news/ufc-229-post-fight-brawl-news-fallout-arrests-fines-and-more-from-khabib-vs-mcgregor/
tl;dr We still don't know what's going to happen.
Hahah you could have written just tldr version dude :D But thx for info!
Heh, yeah, in this day and age, I don't know why I write anymore. I should probably just do the tl;dr version for everything in life. ;)
tl;dr writing lame. reading too.
I asked myself the same question, why did Khabib
"throw it all away" !?
Check my reaction:
https://steemit.com/sport/@luca1777/lo2h9o8z
But i think it happened as
a reminder for the UFC,
to limit the level of promoting
MMA Fights like
Hollywood Movies.
I don't have too much of a problem with trash talking. Ultimately Khabib got his chance to shut Conor up in the Octagon and took it.
If Khabib had did not jump out of the Octagon, it would be Conor answering all the questions, needing to find excuses and having to stay humble. In that sense Khabib let Conor off the hook. Conor can get away with writing a few lines on Instagram while the world focuses on the brawl.
Dilon Danis was trying to provoke Khabib into losing his cool during his moment of glory and succeeded. Now 'Team McGregor' can claim a small victory on a night when their man was completely dominated.
I agree, that was my immediate reaction, too.
But you know YT-channels like the "MMA World"...
And they get at Dilon Danis for talking all tough
before & doing nothing in the brawl.
So yeah, i share your opinion, because man should
never let himself down to the levels of other
peoples behavior.
But still, Team McGregor lost street credibility,
which they use for promotion, too.
Now they are Team "pussycat" :)
I don't want to see a rematch any time soon. Wondering whether Conor still has it in general....but yeah, what I want to see now is Tony vs Khabib. They r both studs, Tony is sooo dangerous from his back!
Yep Ferguson vs Khabib is the fight to make. Hopefully they can both make it to the Octagon this time!!
I can see McGregor in "Money" fights against the likes of Nate Diaz or even GSP at a catchweight. Depending on how he does in those (and whether the hunger is back), I can see the UFC giving him another title shot. He is still the cash cow after all.
Hah it'll be the 5th try if I'm correct :D Hopefully Tony woould stop his crazy-ass workouts and kicking pipes :D But it actually seems he realized it's his trademark - being weird. He ramped up weird videos before 229 and even mentioned in during media scrum - "You guys like it, so I post it. But you don't see my real workouts". I love that guy!
Hah GSP would kill Conor. I'd love tosee him some easier opponents to get back on the winning track. It's a lot about mental side. If you believe you're a winner or you're a loser. You can get used to losing..
I just hope they use the same scale for punishment as Conor would have gotten.
Yeah, like no punishment
(from the UFC side)
for a couple of incidents...
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He won the fight and lost the battle. He don’t deserve to receive the paycheck.
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Or... he rather
won both... i would behave
different, too , but if you think
twice about it... whos team talked
all that talk, trying to make it a street
fight... now they got it, and now we
know who is "all talk"
Khalibs definitely getting a big suspension I loved every minute of the fight and the brawl people got there money's worth lol Connor took a beating 😂 I wanna see a rematch 😂
A year suspension would be terrible, not just for Khabib but for Tony Ferguson too. Ferguson deserves to be fighting for the title and pushing it back for another year, after all, he's been through would suck.
Khabib should tell Nevada to keep his whole purse in return for not serving a suspension. He has always maintained he doesn't care about the money so it would add to his persona and we can see him back in the cage before too long. Plus it's not like he isn't set to make a boatload more, apparently he gained millions of followers on Instagram after this event and the PPV sales did over 2million buys so he will have cleaned up from that.
No one deserves to have their religion disrespected and Khalib won it right