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Just saw Khabibs presser. Ya everything he said was facts.
People don’t seem to think about consequences when they do a lot of talking. Like literally, you can go to 24hr fitness right now and *****s will be talking so much **** on the basketball court -which is great til someone beats the **** out of them. Must be generational thing bc the music that comes out today does nothing but talk by people that have no business doing it.
It's still very foolish of khabib to do this. I know he's kind of new to selling huge prize fights, but it still doesn't excuse his going Buck Wild in trying to fight McGregor's camp in an arena full of fans.
Fight promotion 101 is talking as much crap as you possibly can before the fight. Mayweather realized that over a decade ago and that's why he has over a billion dollars in career earnings. There's no such thing as bad publicity when promoting a fight. You need to say and do anything to get pay-per-view buys. Do you remember all the outlandish things Mayweather said about other boxers families and countries prior to fights? Remember what he came out with a sombrero before the De La Hoya fight? You sell a fight through trash talk. It's really foolish of him to take it personally. At the end of the day, Connor is making khabib more money and raising his profile through this trash talk. I know Khabib is all about honor and respect but at the end of the day this is a business and if you don't get that then you shouldn't be in the highest level of the sport.
That being said, I definitely think there's a double standard between how people are viewing khabib's actions and how they viewed McGregor's when he attacked the tour bus.