Michael Bisping is worried about Conor McGregor’s preparation for UFC 229.
No one’s quite sure if Conor McGregor will be able to counter Khabib Nurmagomedov’s take downs on Oct. 6, and former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping is getting a little concerned.
After snooping through McGregor’s Instagram posts, Bisping can’t understand why they are no pictures or videos of the Irishman training with world class, ‘hardcore wrestlers’ in preparation for the toughest fight of his career at UFC 229.
“The thing that concerns me if I’m pro-McGregor is that when I look at his social media and then his coach John Kavanagh, when you look at his social media, and you look at what’s happening in the gym you don’t see a lot of big hardcore wrestlers that they’ve brought in specifically for this training camp,” Michael Bisping said on a recent episode of the Believe You Me podcast (transcript via Sherdog). “I’m not seeing that. I don’t see a lot of jiu-jitsu experts, I don’t see Dillon Danis in there, I don’t see these Russians that they’ve brought in. Now as I said, they might have brought in some Bulgarians or some Russians, or some American wrestlers but I don’t see it.”
Perhaps Bisping missed a few posts, because there are pictures of McGregor training with the likes of Dillon Danis and other high-level grapplers such as Ayub Magomadov and Kosti Gnusariov.
Check them out below.
With that said, there are not many grapplers on the level of Nurmagomedov, who is arguably the best current wrestler in the UFC. The Dagestani puts on a relentless, overwhelming pace and breaks the majority of his opponents inside the Octagon. No matter who McGregor brings in to fight camp, ‘The Notorious’ has his work cut out for him at UFC 229.
The highly anticipated pay-per-view takes place next month, Oct. 6 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before that, both fighters will meet at a pre-fight press conference in New York, scheduled to take place this Thursday, Sept. 20 at Radio City Music Hall.