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00:10Dustin, Khabib, you know exactly what I expect.
00:12I want you to fight hard and use you to fight clean.
00:14When I say stop, you stop.
00:16If you want to touch, now is the time. God bless.
00:19A lot of mutual respect between these two combatants.
00:22The only thing Khabib really took issue with
00:24was some of the promotion that was champion versus champion.
00:27He says, I am the champion. He is the interim champ.
00:30And Khabib is hoping to keep it that way
00:34in this epic main event class tonight.
00:39Dustin, ready?
00:41Khabib, Khabib, ready?
00:46And with that, we are underway.
00:49Khabib Nurmagomedov in the black and gold.
00:51Dustin Poirier is in the blue with gold.
01:11Khabib Nurmagomedov's striking has improved tremendously
01:14over the last 24 months or so.
01:17Had that knockdown against Conor McGregor,
01:19but in talking to Javier Mendez,
01:21they really feel like he's taking it to the next level.
01:23That being said,
01:25doesn't figure to lean on it too much tonight.
01:35Right now, these guys are just feeling each other out.
01:38Nothing too crazy going on, obviously.
01:42Khabib should start pressuring soon,
01:44and we've seen Dustin just look for that calf kick pretty much so far.
01:48Keep his body on the outside, get that lead foot advantage.
01:57Back-to-back fights against southpaw strikers for Khabib Nurmagomedov.
02:04Fast double leg.
02:08And on the single leg, head on the inside.
02:12And this is where he does his best work.
02:14Once he gets a hold of that leg,
02:16he just moves to the top of your body
02:18and just keeps you squished up against the fence.
02:20This is where Dustin said he did a lot of work.
02:22We'll find out if it pays off.
02:25So this is the first time that Poirier is feeling
02:28that feigned Nurmagomedov pressure.
02:32And you see Poirier, wide-eyed,
02:34looking to his chief corner, Mike Brown, for some advice.
02:36Early takedown for Khabib.
02:38And this is where he wants to be.
02:39This is where he beats everybody.
02:41He gets behind you underneath these arms,
02:42and he can just stay here for five minutes.
02:45It's hard to get him off you in this position.
02:47He'll beat your legs up with the knees,
02:48and then just make you carry his weight
02:50so you got nothing in you after.
02:52Wow.
02:55Outstanding control by Nurmagomedov.
02:57Now transitions to the back of Dustin Poirier.
03:00Couple hooks in.
03:07Poirier says, I know I'm going to be taken down.
03:09I just have to keep the scramble going.
03:11And the scramble is not going right now.
03:13It's tough.
03:14Looked like Poirier got raked across the eye there.
03:17A little bit by Nurmagomedov.
03:18Now working on a little bit of a neck crank.
03:20Not under the chin.
03:21That hurts, but it doesn't choke.
03:23It just makes things miserable.
03:25And that's what Khabib does so well,
03:27is he just makes things miserable for you.
03:29It hangs on your hands.
03:30Beats you up.
03:31Cranks your neck.
03:32Keeps the pressure.
03:33Makes you carry his weight.
03:35That's what we're seeing here.
03:37Poirier getting advice.
03:40And Nurmagomedov just covering the face
03:42and looking to Mullin.
03:46Less than two minutes to go in the round.
03:48You see Nurmagomedov wisely trying to upset the breathing pattern of Poirier.
03:57Poirier, Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt trying to turn into the choke here, Dom.
04:02Yeah, he can't.
04:02It's not a choke.
04:03It's just nasty.
04:04It's just nasty.
04:05He makes it real nasty on you, Khabib.
04:07And that's what's happening right now.
04:10And see how he stays in that position no matter what?
04:13Underneath both arms.
04:14And that's just not a fun position to be in if you're Poirier.
04:17Good job switching it around by him.
04:19So Dustin back to his feet, lands in knee of the body of Nurmagomedov.
04:24But no separation for Poirier, which could prove problematic.
04:29Well, he keeps getting behind his arms like that.
04:31And that's going to be an issue.
04:32And you see how he trips him.
04:33That's one of Khabib's best weapons is he trips you while he's taking you down over and over.
04:38And he's attacking your legs with the foot sweep while he's attacking your upper body.
04:41And that's a big difference.
04:42Right, the simultaneous attacks, the subtleties, the nuances.
04:46And notice his head is always higher than his opponent.
04:49And that makes you carry his weight as well.
04:52There's the trips.
04:54Those are what make the difference is that he trips you while he's clinching you.
04:57A lot of guys aren't using that at the same time.
05:02Still behind the arms.
05:06Khabib three for four on his takedown attempts last fall.
05:09Nice switch, but it's not enough because he keeps the hands locked.
05:14And, you know, in wrestling, traditional wrestling, it's illegal to keep your hands locked.
05:17But in a fight, that's why it's illegal in a wrestling match.
05:21Because it's hard to get away.
05:23Already north of three minutes of control time for Nurmagomedov.
05:31Poirier has really been put on the defensive early in this fight.
05:36Some nice ground strikes now from the champion.
05:38Oh, a big elbow from Khabib!
05:42Poirier forced to score him out.
05:46Nurmagomedov at his mauling best in round one.
05:49He's just six significant strike attempts in that opening round.
05:54They want more offense here, and they want him fighting on a napkin in the center of the octagon.
05:57And that's what he's got to do.
05:58He's got to get respect with his hands early.
06:00Otherwise, Khabib can just keep wrestling him.
06:02But more than anything, they're saying, keep going for that switch that you learned.
06:04And it's working, but you've got to keep the leg when you switch.
06:07If you keep the leg, even if Khabib keeps his hands locked, at least it gives you some leverage.
06:13He's got Poirier thinking right now, especially after that takedown.
06:16Poirier backing up here early round two.
06:22Poirier with the big right hand.
06:24Now back Nurmagomedov up.
06:26Khabib now on the retreat.
06:30Hard to know the extent to which that hurt Nurmagomedov.
06:38Poirier loaded up on that right hand.
06:40Khabib able to avoid it.
06:41Poirier got to throw like this.
06:43This is what he's got to do.
06:44He's got to get the respect.
06:45Nice kick to the body by Poirier.
06:47And then he slipped.
06:58Poirier digs to the body there.
07:00Khabib counters to the inside of that lead leg of Poirier.
07:05Up against the fence.
07:07Taked out.
07:08The speed on that double leg is just incredible.
07:10And that's a real difference in anything that people feel is how fast he can shoot.
07:19What an atmosphere in this arena.
07:21With every strike that's thrown, takedown that's secured.
07:25Incredible.
07:37No surprise, Poirier said this was one of his harder training camps.
07:41Doing this every day for five, ten rounds.
07:46And right here, just in this position, you see Khabib just waiting because he's making Poirier carry all his weight.
07:53And it's just so tiring the way he hooks the leg and keeps your head.
07:57Takes so much energy to get up from these positions.
07:59And that's what Khabib does well.
08:01And now he's got his legs hooked while he's controlling the hands.
08:07Poirier scooting to the fence.
08:09But yeah, I mean, you see that leg control by Normand Gomedov.
08:13And that's what I see the biggest difference with Khabib from most grapplers is he's using his hands and his
08:18legs at the same time.
08:19And most wrestlers are just using their upper body and their feet are touching the floor.
08:23They're just using their upper body and that's it.
08:25He uses both at the same time and it gives him his weapons at all times on the mat.
08:29And it looks like Poirier has been cut open fairly significantly around that left eye.
08:36And a lot of times you see guys with their head is lower than the man up against the fence.
08:40But Khabib's generally higher than the guy on bottom.
08:43And that's making him carry the weight and that's why he always ends up behind the back here.
08:48Not sure what cut Poirier, but that is a significant cut and bothering him.
08:59Under two minutes here to go in round two of a possible five.
09:07No room to breathe from Normand Gomedov.
09:10See how he's hooking the ankles there.
09:11That just really offsets the hips, keeps you from being able to be strong up against the fence.
09:15And he'll keep going back and forth between hooking the ankles, going to a double leg, hooking the ankles up
09:20and down, up and down.
09:21As Poirier focuses on the upper body fighting for an underhook, you get your leg cut out from underneath.
09:26And then that gives him the upper body lock after you tripped.
09:29No fun.
09:32Unless your team, Normand Gomedov, and most people in this arena are, he'll try to drag Poirier down again here.
09:41His positioning is just literally pretty much flawless so far.
09:48In the grappling, in Khabib.
09:50Mari.
10:04Normand Gomedov five for six on his takedown attempts thus far.
10:07We'll see if Poirier can get away from the fence here.
10:10They're not able to do so.
10:12He's tired, it's exhausting, carrying all this weight.
10:16He's doing more work than Khabib right now.
10:31and there's the trips and it's just the back and forth battle of the trips and the upper body
10:36clinch that's just hard to deal with you go with good judo players that's what it feels like they're
10:41always tripping you and then you lose your upper body balance and stability and then you're just
10:46behind oh nice knee from ramago medov he has largely muted dustin poirier's offense through 10 minutes
10:53two nil khabib round three is brought to you by p3 the official protein snack of the ufc
11:01little frustration from dustin poirier on the stool there after round two
11:07see if he can get his hands going here in round three
11:32which is not quite quick enough
11:38the guillotine's in but it's not super tight yet now it's in
11:45dustin poirier working on a guillotine here
11:48namago medov staying composed
11:51gets him off him for a second and he sticks to the sticks to the guillotine to keep it and
11:56that's in
11:57that's in tight but turning to a hip the way he's doing buys him some air
12:03he sticks with it
12:06wow
12:08ramago medov pops his head out crowd goes bananas
12:11and now ramago medov knows how tired dustin poirier's arms are and he gets right on the
12:16hand control and this is what we saw to curtis blades earlier is the hand control on the heavyweight
12:20in the same position the top leg position and now his head's higher than poirier's so poirier's got
12:24to get all that weight off him before he can get away but first and foremost he has to attack
12:29the
12:29hand control of khabib
12:39you see khabib's father abdulman op right there proud to be in his son's cover tonight now
12:45impossible
12:48nope namago medov bails
12:49it's enough to make it real ugly it's just mean
12:53neck cranking you always yeah right across your jaw you can't breathe it hurts your nose
12:57and it's not really that's in that's in
13:02namago medov under the chin there's the top
13:04kabin namago medov 28 and 0
13:07incredible absolutely incredible the way he dominates people in the grappling
13:13never seen anything like it and this time a big hug for the ufc president dana white
13:18and dana's gonna like that a lot more than what happened the last time around
13:22the standard upon which all lightweights will be judged khabib namago medov submits
13:29dustin poirier in round three
13:32wow i mean complete dominance from khabib in that fight and dustin poirier is no slouch let me tell you
13:40not at all and certainly not all the way dustin poirier drew it up tonight but the celebration is on
13:48in abu
14:01this is just so difficult to do and yet he continues to take on the lightweight division's best
14:09and is able to finish dustin poirier tonight and it always starts with
14:14this takedown i mean you look at the speed of his shots first he wears you out and then the
14:17speed is
14:18just so so quick how he gets in pushed against the fence and this is a great guillotine
14:23i mean this is in but this is the this is what he's got this is his hail mary right
14:28here
14:29dustin poirier it's in and he did not give up on it but the way that khabib kept moving his
14:33hip
14:33side to side to get space and eventually work his neck out that took all the air out of dustin
14:40to go
14:40for that last guillotine and all the all the muscle out of his arms and then that allowed khabib to
14:45be
14:45able to go for that choke at the end he softens him up a little and then sinks it in
14:49and you see him
14:50get that hand behind the head and he knows that that's it beautiful finish perfect display of
14:56mixed martial arts grappling from khabib and ramagomedov again well since ufc 178 in 2014
15:03when poirier fought conor mcgregor he had lost just one of 11 fights while taking on a murderer's row of
15:09ufc talent ladies and gentlemen referee mark goddard has called a stop to this contest at two minutes
15:15six seconds of the third round declaring the winner by submission due to a rear naked choke
15:21and still the undisputed ufc lightweight champion of the world
15:36chad?"
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