Burroughs denies training McGregor, Khabib’s dad says no one can help him anyway
Jordan Burroughs has shut down rumors of him training with Conor McGregor to improve his wrestling.
Once again, there are rumors floating on social media that Conor McGregor has enlisted the help of Jordan Burroughs to help him shore up his wrestling game. It wasn’t true two and a half years ago, and it still isn’t true now that he’s preparing for Khabib Nurmagomedov.
The Olympic gold medalist and four-time world champion wrestler took to twitter about it:
I’m not working with Conor. I’m attempting to win a World Championship of my own in October. I wish him the best of luck in his upcoming title fight with Khabib.
— Jordan Burroughs (@alliseeisgold) August 13, 2018
Interestingly enough, Khabib’s dad, Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov recently said that no one can help McGregor improve his wrestling in time for UFC 229 this October.
“Let’s put together the best wrestling coaches from Dagestan, Japan, USA, Turkey . . . even they will not be able to prepare McGregor for this fight in three months,” Abdulmanap told Alexander Lyutikov (HT: MMA Fighting). “No one can help him. You can’t do that in such a short time. He needs to start studying it from the beginning. To improve his wrestling in several months, it’s impossible.”
Abdulmanap went on to discuss the match up, saying McGregor only has a “puncher’s chance” early, and would get taken down and finished any time they wanted.
“I think Khabib’s chin is strong enough for the lightweight and welterweight divisions,” he said. “Physically and tactically, Khabib is stronger than Conor. Khabib has better cardio than Conor and 100 percent Khabib has better wrestling and grappling. we will choke him out when we decide to do it. Of course, Conor’s left hand is very dangerous and he can throw the right uppercut. That’s all. Nothing else.”
“[Conor is dangerous] for 8 to 9 minutes, no more. After the first clinch, Khabib will take him down. We will finish this fight when we want. We respect our fans. If they want to watch all five rounds, we will fight all five rounds. But after two rounds, he has nothing to do on his feet. After two rounds, he will not be able to do anything.”
McGregor is currently a slight betting underdog to Nurmagomedov, at +165.