Michael Chandler has no plans to concentrate on Conor McGregor’s surgically-repaired leg, snapped in half throughout his Dustin Poirier loss at UFC 264 again in summer season 2021. That’s as a result of “Iron” is just too busy specializing in his strengths versus his opponent’s weaknesses.
Or perhaps Chandler simply needs McGregor to really feel like there’s some type of gents’s settlement that his “damage leg” is off limits at UFC 303, then launch a shock assault when the cage door closes in “Sin Metropolis,” type of how Brad Tavares went straight for Chris Weidman’s leg at UFC 292 final summer season.
“His ‘damage leg’, when you would, going after it, it’s his again leg,” Chandler informed The MMA Hour (transcribed by MMA Information). “So me specializing in something different than simply being me and specializing in my strengths, which is at all times punches in bunches. Huge punches, punches to the top, punches to the physique, decide them up, put them down, form of in your face, foot on the fuel sort of Michael Chandler fashion. It will be foolish for me to consider something greater than that. Any time you may mess up a man’s foundations, it’s good for you. Modifications their motion, messes up the facility of their punches, however I don’t see myself throwing quite a lot of leg kicks on this struggle. So, haven’t actually considered it that a lot.”
I’m certain his coaches have.
Chandler, two years older than McGregor at 37, can be coming off a loss to Poirier, having been submitted by “The Diamond” at UFC 281 again in late 2022. “Iron” has not seen motion since filming The Final Fighter (TUF) 31, patiently ready for his “crimson panty evening” with the game’s prime pay-per-view (PPV) draw.
“My ‘Mystic Mike’ prediction is I end him within the second spherical,” Chandler stated on Instagram. “Get him on his heels within the first spherical, make him second-guess himself within the first spherical, make him understand, ‘Dang, I in all probability ought to have simply stayed wealthy and stayed out of the struggle recreation.’ And I’ll begin planting these seeds of doubts within the first spherical. By the top of the primary spherical he’ll return to his bench and return to his nook huffing and puffing and understand that he’s about to satisfy his demise.”
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