Reports are unconfirmed but it's spreading like a live wire. Check out twitter. If Khabib is finding it hard to make weight, we may see him weak for the fight. This on paper is a 50-50 fight and dangerous for either of them to be less than peak. Khabib confirmed that for his last fight, he cut 30lbs.
It's been officially cancelled, Khabib couldn't make the weight. He was hospitalised and they wouldn't clear him to fight due to complications arising from weight management issues. http://www.mmafighting.com/2017/3/3/14799844/ufc-209-weigh-in-video
Proper gutted about this. Was really looking forward to the fight. Although if he couldn't make weight he really should be in the WW division.
FFS! This is so annoying. Khabib the Kebab lol. He needs to not blow up in weight before training camps too much next time. Ferguson-Khabib was the one I was looking most forward to. What's next for these guys then?
This is a result of things that many naive people praise about the UFC so much. All this "top fighters fighting each other" crap and not having too many titles and weight classes. Well you can't duck the other fighter in the same way you can in boxing ("promotional issues" or overpricing yourself) but in the UFC you can still duck your opponent, you just need to come up with an injury excuse. Forcing top contenders to fight each other instead of letting them temporarily avoid each other = fighters pulling out with imaginary injuries to save face and not having to fight the guy they don't want to fight Minimal number of weight classes = fighters cutting a ton of weight to not be undersized I'm not necessarily saying that Khabib ducked Tony here but come on, this is like the 3rd time this particular fight has been canceled and like 10th time that Khabib has pulled out of a fight against a top contender. It can't be a coincidence that it always happens to the same guys. And other fighters do it all the time too, like 1/3 of the fights in the UFC get cancelled. It happens much more rare in boxing because when the fight is signed usually both guys actually want to fight each other. Also, having a 15 pound gap between 170 and 155 doesn't help either and it's only natural that you're going to have problems with cutting weight. Boxing has 175, 168, 160 and 154 weight classes for these fighters. If they had the same weight classes like in boxing both of those guys would fight comfortably at 160 and you wouldn't have that issue. Assuming that Khabib didn't pull this stunt on purpose of course.
After that post fight tirade he recently makes then this? It is always something with this guy, just when he seems like he is really going to get over with everyone something like this happens. His career just took another leap backwards.
