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MMA Fighting

UFC 254: Pros Predict Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Justin Gaethje

MMA Fighting

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🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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MMA Fighting spoke to MMA stars from the UFC and Bellator to get their predictions for who's going to win Saturday's pivotal UFC 254 headliner between undisputed lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov and interim champ Justin Gaethje. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think Justin Gage is an absolute stud.

0:04.6

He is a, I mean, they call him the human highlight and the most exciting guy in the game and it is true,

0:09.6

but not just a game in all of combat sports.

0:11.9

There is no fighter in the world of sports that is

0:15.2

more excited in Justin Gaitchy boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts. You'll find nobody

0:19.9

more exciting and better. And the Justin Gaiti that fought Tony Ferguson in April, or May,

0:26.2

is more dangerous to Habib than anyone that he has ever stood across the Afghan from.

0:32.3

With that being said, I've seen Habibner

0:35.0

Megga Metoff train for championship fights and fights since 2012. The only

0:42.0

person that was more thorough in their preparation was Kane Velazquez when he became the champion back in 2010.

0:47.0

No one worked harder. No one was more committed.

0:51.0

And I just don't know if anyone's going to beat him. I'm confident

0:55.4

and believe in that Habib will retire undefeated. Nobody will beat this guy.

0:59.4

He is too committed to who he's supposed to be to get beat by anyone.

1:04.1

So Justin will fight a good fight.

1:07.2

I'm calling the fight, right?

1:08.6

So I'm going to be as unbiased as I can possibly be in this fight. I'm going to do my job to the best of my ability.

1:15.5

But I just don't know if anybody can beat this guy right now. There's no I no 55

1:20.4

psalm should feel that strong when he grabs you.

1:23.8

I think he is very strong, he's mentally very strong,

1:28.2

because everybody know his game, everybody know his game plan, and he go there and do it. You know? I think that's making

1:38.6

him different, the other guy. Everybody know why he think about the fight while he doing the fight and everybody knows there

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