{"id":125257,"date":"2015-01-09T11:28:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T19:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=125257"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:57:07","slug":"pettis-annoying-khabib-cant-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/pettis-annoying-khabib-cant-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Pettis: &#8216;Annoying Khabib Can&#8217;t Strike&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/pettis-i-have-to-remind-everyone-who-i-am\/anthony-pettis-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-115502\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-115502\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Anthony-Pettis-.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Pettis\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Anthony-Pettis-.jpg 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Anthony-Pettis--300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Anthony-Pettis--361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe is definitely annoying. I feel like his striking is like an amateur level. He only gets by on his wrestling. He thinks his striking is going to be good enough to survive against me, take me down and grind me out for 25 minutes? He\u2019s never done that. He\u2019s never fought a main event for 25 minutes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnybody can wrestle for 15 minutes, but it\u2019s different when you\u2019re fighting for the title. At the same time, his striking is amateur compared to where my wrestling is. My wrestling is on a way higher level than his striking if you want to compare the two.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe\u2019s going to have to wait his turn. I\u2019m going to take these fights one at a time. If I look at this division as a whole, I\u2019ll never sleep. There\u2019s so many killers out there. I\u2019ve got to focus on what\u2019s next, and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/01\/anthony-pettis-annoying-khabib-nurmagomedov-owns-amateur-level-striking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>, UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis talked about Russia&#8217;s top prospect in Khabib Nurmagomedov.<\/p>\n<p>Is the champ right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe is definitely annoying. I feel like his striking is like an amateur level. He only gets by on his wrestling. He thinks his striking is going to be good enough to survive against me, take me down and grind me out for 25 minutes? He\u2019s never done that. He\u2019s never fought a main event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":115502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pettis: &#039;Annoying Khabib Can&#039;t Strike&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis talked about Russia&#039;s top prospect in Khabib Nurmagomedov. 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