Now that we are five and a half years old of Zabit Magomedsharipov’s last fight, I am starting to believe that he will not come back. Guy was 29 years old when he moved away, undefeated in the UFC (6-0), reported as the future champion. The fact that he was an enhanced of a human being at 6 feet 1 inch and 145 pounds – and unusually drawn, a man who seemed to have seen a S *** in Laos at the time – only added to the mystery that follows him everywhere where he goes.
What if?
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What if Zabit had continued to fight? How far could he have gone? Would his fuel tank have resisted an incessant machine like Alexander Volkanovski? In our world of fluid opinions, many believe that it was only a matter of time before it was “exposed”. However, it could also be asserted by any pragmatist who followed the game long enough so that it is only a matter of time for everyone.
The question of what is happening from time to time goes back from time to time, generally when something is happening to which we cannot discover the answer. Right now, it’s Jon Jones, which was well adjusted as a bug in Thailand by far from the days while the acting champion Tom Aspinall remained dragged to dry. The habit in this equation has become: what happens if Jones does not unify this heavy goods vehicle title? Certainly, the inheritance he protects is part of his inheritanceRIGHT? We add another asterisk for risk management (from a different color, to distinguish themselves from other asterisks)?
Or let’s forget the fights he did not want, say, 2033, when Raul Rosas Jr. is a longtime champion of the UFC?
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Besides, what happens if the Rosas chin was two more inches?
What if Tony Ferguson hadn’t tripped on this television cable this time? Would it have been the barbed wire ball that would have cut through Khabib Nurmagomedov? And if they had fought when “El Cucuy” was at its peak? While Ferguson is banished in a DOA League known as GFL, Khabib is celebrated like a goat. This cable is responsible for so much pain, and I will bet everything that is completely unconscious.
Each sport has a version. It’s an endless loop when you think about it. What if Babe Ruth was playing today? What if Scott Norwood had done this goal in the field? What if the referees did not leave Alex Caruso Mug the biggest basketball player of all time, Nikola Jokić, every time he landed near the elbow?
In the fighting game, a large part of the If belong to the fighters that we have never discovered enough. People like tj grant, who eliminated Gray Maynard to hit his ticket for a light title shot only to disappear in Canada to work on potash mines. Concreases have shorted his career during his career. Hey will always have a place in these discussions if anything.
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You can also include Conor McGregor in this group. Yes, he won titles in two weight categories, beating Jose Aldo and Eddie Alvarez, but what happens if he never went to boxing? Have you ever had silk pajamas? Yacht? Have you never done foot in Ibiza, or assaulted Miami Heat Burnie’s mascot? Let’s not go on the path that led to its illusions to become president of Ireland, and we hold it to the one simple, if it had stayed around the UFC rather than money against Floyd Mayweather?
The start of the end for Conor McGregor. (Jeff Bottari / Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
(Jeff Bottari via Getty Images)
We never Really know.
No, it’s a fun game to play while drinking a few models – the old What -? – because there are a million and so many directions. What if Chael Sonnen had survived in the first round against Jon Jones, with this big toe of Jones who turns away from his foot at a 90 -degree angle? What if Jones had fought Francis Ngannou? What if his fight with Dominick Reyes was not in Texas, where judge is akin to a roulette turn? What if Georges St-Pierre had fought Anderson Silva when the two were up to their shopping? Or if Fedor Emelianenko had signed with the UFC during his?
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To date, it is fun to remember the assorted media questioning Dana White about this possibility, followed by the inevitable question on all levels so that the UFC brings a show to the AT&T stadium, where Dallas cowboys play. (The answer is never, but we have lived comfortably in this area for many years before moving to speculating on Croke Park).
Later this summer, one of the greatest first -rate prospects of the Pantheon, Khamzat Chimaev, should fight Dricus du Plessis for the average weight title. This fight seems somewhat theoretical because: a) the last time that Chimaev fought in the United States, he missed the weight if bad Nate Diaz became Kevin Holland; B) Visa problems that follow Chimaev around; And, c) he seems to fall badly. There are mysteries to man who replace our basic understanding of his potential, cosmological factors, things that we simply cannot know. If the fight takes place, we can hit one of the purity Ifs on the list.
Can you imagine, however, if for any reason, Khamzat does not do so?
Move on Zabit, we will have a new champion in the biggest conversation about what is.