{"id":448,"date":"2022-10-18T13:33:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=448"},"modified":"2022-10-18T17:51:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:51:18","slug":"khabib-nurmagomedov-suggests-charles-oliveira-doesnt-have-a-good-ground-game-if-you-tap-eight-times-in-ufc-how-can-you-say-you-have-ground-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/khabib-nurmagomedov-suggests-charles-oliveira-doesnt-have-a-good-ground-game-if-you-tap-eight-times-in-ufc-how-can-you-say-you-have-ground-game\/","title":{"rendered":"KHABIB NURMAGOMEDOV SUGGESTS CHARLES OLIVEIRA DOESN\u2019T HAVE A GOOD GROUND GAME: \u201cIF YOU TAP EIGHT TIMES IN UFC, HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU HAVE GROUND GAME\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An old video has resurfaced of Khabib Nurmagomedov tearing into the ground game of\u00a0Charles Oliveira\u00a0before UFC 280.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_42441\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dPF0Yr6657I?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the main event of UFC 280 will be contested between Charles Oliveira and Islam Makhachev, with the UFC lightweight championship on the line, there\u2019s certainly a looming presence in the air in the form of Khabib Nurmagomedov.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018The Eagle\u2019, formerly known as the best 155-pounder in the world, has been backing Makhachev in the media\u00a0pretty heavily\u00a0in the lead-up to this contest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Everyone knows that the ground game of Makhachev has the potential to cause \u2018Do Bronx\u2019 problems but Khabib has really been hammering that point home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a clip that has popped back up from a few months ago, Khabib can be seen explaining his thinking to Kamaru Usman and Henry Cejudo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is what Islam gonna do with Charles Olivera: he gonna ride him like you ride your horse,\u201d Nurmagomedov said. \u201cA lot of people underestimate Islam. They think Charles Oliveira have ground game. He don\u2019t have ground game. If you tap eight times in UFC, how can you say you have ground game? You tap eight times!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What it appears as if Khabib means to say is that Oliveira has lost eight times in the UFC, because in reality, he\u2019s only been submitted on three occasions. His last submission defeat came all the way back in November 2016, and since then, he\u2019s submitted eight different opponents including his last two, Justin Gaethje and Dustin Poirier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whichever way you look at it, this title bout has the potential to be one of the best fights of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>What do you think about Khabib Nurmagomedov\u2019s remarks regarding Charles Oliveira and his run in the UFC? Let us know your thoughts in the comments, BJPENN Nation!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old video has resurfaced of Khabib Nurmagomedov tearing into the ground game of\u00a0Charles Oliveira\u00a0before UFC 280. &nbsp; While the main event of UFC 280 will be contested between Charles Oliveira and Islam Makhachev, with the UFC lightweight championship on the line, there\u2019s certainly a looming presence in the air in the form of Khabib [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}