Is Islam Better Than Khabib?

Good Guy / Bad Guy

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4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On this episode of Good Guy/Bad Guy, Daniel Cormier and Chael Sonnen dive into what happens if Conor McGregor or Michael Chandler can’t make the walk for UFC 303. What goes into finding a backup fighter and what kind of conversations must happen between athlete & the UFC. And, following his victory over Dustin Poirier at UFC 302, just how good is Islam Makhachev? Do the guys believe that he is better than his teacher, coach and UFC hall of famer, Khabib Nurmagomedov? Plus, who should the Lightweight champion face next? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sadly, Chair, I gotta admit, I spend far too much time scouring the internet for trolls.
0:05.7	So I know that you guys say you can't buy UFC-303 anymore, so guess what?
0:10.6	Look, look at the graphic.
0:12.4	We'll even save you $10. It's still available!
0:15.0	Ha ha ha! What's up guys?
0:27.0	What's up guys?
0:28.0	Welcome to a brand new episode of Good Guy, Bad Guy.
0:31.5	I'm Daniel Cormier.
0:32.9	That is Chale Sunen.
0:34.4	Chil P, you know what's crazy about this show
0:38.0	and UFC 303 and speaking to the magnitude of it, one of our highest rated shows of all time, and literally all
0:47.3	we did was guests. Neither one of us knew anything that was happening. We sat up here on Monday and we just threw out
0:54.7	guesses. Maybe it's this. Maybe it's this. Maybe it's this. I look at the
1:00.2	numbers the next day. We're over 200,000 people watch this thing in the day
1:04.6	chill we didn't know we just guessed is that not amazing. Daniel I could have
1:10.8	called Dana whether he answered or not I but I could have called Oddie I could have called Dana whether he answered or not I but I could have called
1:13.7	Oddie I could have called Connor McGregor I didn't even try to do these things and you
1:18.1	want to know why I don't necessarily want to know I like the speculation I'm with our
1:22.4	audience I think that the guessing is a little bit more fun look when everything's done in hindsight as we'll call it
1:27.4	Not having a press conference created more press than the press conference could up so at the end of the day though that was not the
1:34.8	designed result Connor McGregor once again from a marketing standpoint gets an A.
1:41.2	He absolutely gets an A and guys right now as we stand the fight is still on as you saw
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