Two-weight UFC champion Daniel Cormier believes Conor McGregor IMPRESSED in defeat by Khabib Nurmagomedov – but gives him little chance in a rematch.
McGregor was submitted by the lightweight champion in the fourth round having been taken down repeatedly by the dominant wrestler.
And Cormier, who trains with Nurmagomedov, believes the Irishman did as well as could be expected.
"Honestly man, that first takedown, I was like wow, Conor really made him work for this takedown," he told The MMA Hour .
"Because this is what we say at AKA – we try to get you lost in the sauce. We want to get you lost in the sauce, right? Like, when we’re on a leg, we want to give you one [takedown attempt]; okay, you’ll defend. Two, you’ll defend; three, then you start going, ‘okay, wait a minute,’ then you start to get lost.
"You get lost in all the different transitions, from to move to move to move, and eventually we get you down. And once we get you down, obviously it’s very difficult to get back up.
"He really did a good job and that’s why if you’re Team McGregor, there’s cause for concern because I don’t know if he could do that any better and he still got beat in the way that he got beat.
"That’s why, I think if you’re Team McGregor, you’d be concerned about a fight with Nurmagomedov, because I don’t think he could defend any better.
"I thought was as good as [he could], because he did a good job and I don’t know if he could do it any better… because then Khabib is going to go to level five, and he going to go to level six, and he’s going to just keep putting different things behind each other until eventually you kinda can’t keep up."
McGregor called for a rematch immediately after the fight at UFC 229 but both men must wait for the outcome of an investigation by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
The commission has temporarily suspended both fighters while they examine the riot that followed the title fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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