As UFC 229 fast approaches, discussions surrounding the potential outcome of the main event between Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov have intensified. Fight fans seem to be split into two ardent and opposing groups. One group believes that McGregor will land his patented left to end the fight, while the other group maintain that Nurmagomedov will take McGregor down and dominate him.
For the second theory to be correct, we must assume that McGregor’s grappling isn’t up to scratch. But what do we really know about McGregor’s ground game?
Since all of McGregor’s defeats have came via submission, it is easy to label his ground game as a weak spot and it is something that McGregor has been eager to remedy in his career.