The First Episode Of Embedded For McGregor/Khabib Has Arrived, And It's Just As Glorious As You'd Hope
Fight week has arrived, ladies and gentlemen, and with it, Embedded as well. If you’ve never seen Embedded before, think a more condensed HBO ’24/7′ series, and available for free on YouTube daily during fight week. They’re pretty incredibly done, to be honest, and definitely must watch material whenever Conor McGregor is involved.
UFC 229’s series will feature fighters from both the main and co-main events, so over the course of the next week, we’ll get to see Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Tony Ferguson, and Anthony Pettis all preparing for their bouts separately, and then on Saturday night, watch the season finale live in the octagon!
Let’s take a gander through the episode above, now.
We start with Khabib, who takes all of two seconds to show just how much of a little trepidatious beta male he is as he’s bumping into doorways and shit to make sure he stays out of everybody’s way…in his OWN GYM. As a “current” REIGNING UFC CHAMPION.
You can say I’m nitpicking or grasping at straws with this, but here’s a fact jack – when you compare that gif to this one…
…it’s very clear who’s nuts are dragging on the ground and who’s aren’t. And I’ll leave that at that.
Coach Javier Mendez tells us about how unstoppable Khabib has been in this camp, and we cut to Khabib beating the ever living shit out of a punching bag on the ground. It wasn’t scary at all. No poop even turtled out of my butthole a little bit. None. Not afraid.
We then cut to Tony Ferguson being a fuckin’ dickhead again, making some stupid remark about his wraps being black and blue “like a bruise”. I think he probably complained about his title getting stripped then, but I don’t know. I fast forwarded. No thanks, Tony.
Oh, but before we leave him – I did skip past this frame as I was trying to find the next time anyone but Ferguson was on the screen, and I’m just going to share a gif of what this tryhard fuck is doing without comment.
Over at the Roufusport MMA Academy in Milwaulkee, Wisconson, Anthony Pettis shows some SERIOUS signs of the vintage Pettis we saw in his fight with Michael Chiesa, which could mean he’s here to stay. Obviously, this is only sparring, and only the footage approved to be released, but his quickness and speed do appear to be way closer to his prime quickness/speed than in years’ past.
And his power? His explosiveness?
Yep, that’s still there as well. Really hoping Pettis pulls through on Saturday despite what my gut is telling me will happen.
Back at AKA, Coach Javier Mendez puts on the single most embarrassing, awkward, and cringeworthy send-off I could ever imagine, featuring like 30 dudes in matching t-shirts screaming “KHA-BIB! KHA-BIB! KHA-BIB!” in his face.
Here’s a look at Conor McGregor’s fanbase…
And here’s a look at Khabib’s…
There’s absolutely NO WAY Khabib could have enjoyed that, and it was actually the first thing in the entire build to this fight that made me feel sympathetic for him. Like, don’t fuckin’ do that, Coach! That’s so lame! Khabib went on to give a little speech to the crew, Proper No. Twelve ate a hefty ricochet shot, and the losers chanted “Conor is a goner!”.
Finally though, at the end of the episode, a flip is switched, and Embedded…
…becomes MacBedded.
The Champ Champ pulls up the the UFC Performance Center at near-midnight, drops some knowledge, and then goes in for multiple rounds of sparring. We get to see a pretty decent chunk of it with SBG Teammate Peter Queally (7:27 for that), and he looks LOOOOOOSE.
I really don’t think Khabab makes it out of the first on Saturday.