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Pettis is overated, sloppy boxing, half decent kicks and good jiu jitsu off his back. You mean like how Cerrone worked Nate's legs? If Nate threw with the kind of power Mcgregor does Cerrone would have been knocked out several times over. Imo Nate is a worse matchup for Mcgregor than Khabib. Nate's biggest weakness is wrestling, is Conor a wrestler? At least in Khabib's case he would be just as outmatched on the feet as Mcgregor would be on the ground.I don't recall the UFC offering Faber as an alternate opponent when RDA got injured. Faber has never fought at LW (if I recall correctly) and had most recently lost the title fight to Cruz at BW, so I find this claim dubious at best. I'm sure Faber might have offered to step in... there was a bunch of fighters that did. There's a huge difference between Faber willing to step in and the UFC actually offering him the match. Most fighters that do offer to step in and face McGregor on short notice seemed to conveniently get passed over in favour of lesser opponents.
All of the willing fighters that were in camp or fight-ready, yet vacationing Diaz gets picked and you don't think that was done as a favour to McGregor and avoid tougher matchups? Please. McGregor/Diaz would've provided much better soundbytes in the media placements, and was the easiest opponent at the time.
I'm sure Cerrone loses less sleep over a loss to RDA than Conor's does in his losses to Duffy or Sitenkov. Cerrone would've worked Conor's legs and mixed up his combo's better than Diaz did, and tried to roll out of the pocket in exchanges. Pettis is good at stiking from angles, uses kicks to keep opponents at range and gets in and out faster than Diaz... far, far superior octagon movement.