“I’ll take that one to get my ‘Most Knockdowns in a UFC title fight’ record,” Conor McGregor on “unscored” knockdown in Khabib Nurmagomedov fight
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The “Notorious One” Conor McGregor has been spending a considerable amount of time on twitter lately. The Irishman has been taking to Twitter every now and then to interact with his fans. In doing so, hue often finds himself answering questions regarding his fights or analyzing his past fights. One such fan, who has since deleted his tweet; asked McGregor what his definition of a knockdown was.
“Khabib knockdown was unscored” ; McGregor
Conor talking about how two of his knockdowns against Eddie Alvarez weren’t counted. In what was a rare occurance, he also revealed that the knockdown Khabib Nurmagomedov scored on him in their clash at UFC 229 was not counted. “The 4th knockdown in the Eddie fight wasn’t officially scored. Neither was the khabib overhand. Both of them were knockdowns though,” McGregor tweeted.
He also went on to say that he would have got the record of the “Most Knockdowns in a UFC title fight”, had the knockdowns on Alverez been counted. However, he is right in claiming that they were legit, considering that even though Alvarez landed on his knees, it should have been considered as a knockdown.
The record currently belongs to middleweight champ Israel Adesanya where he knocked Kelvin Gastelum down four times in their fight for the interim UFC middleweight championship.
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