{"id":225389,"date":"2017-02-28T11:23:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=225389"},"modified":"2017-04-14T14:19:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T21:19:30","slug":"artem-lobov-predicts-knockout-against-cub-swanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/artem-lobov\/artem-lobov-predicts-knockout-against-cub-swanson\/","title":{"rendered":"Artem Lobov predicts knockout win over Cub Swanson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 22, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cub-swanson\/contrary-maia-masvidal-cub-swanson-still-ufc-nasvhille-main-event\/\">in the main event of the UFC&#8217;s latest trip to Nashville, Tennessee<\/a>, unranked featherweight Artem Lobov will take on the division&#8217;s fourth ranked fighter in Cub Swanson. Given their starkly different stations in the featherweight division not many people seem to give Lobov, who trains alongside Conor McGregor at SBG Ireland, much of a chance. According to Lobov himself, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/artem-lobov\/artem-lobov-swanson-bout-kind-fight\/\">this is a dream fight<\/a>, and one he expects to win by knockout.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cCub Swanson, I\u2019ve been watching him for many years and he has a very good style,\u201d Lobov said on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/mma-hour\" target=\"_blank\">The MMA Hour<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/featured-posts\/artem-lobov-lot-prove-fight-im-ready\/\" target=\"_blank\">TheMacLife.com<\/a>). \u201cHe likes to stand and he goes for it. When I saw his fight against [Doo Ho] Choi, I thought \u2018that was a great fight, I\u2019d love to be\u00a0involved in one of those\u2019. And realistically, I thought they might give me Choi. I didn\u2019t actually expect to get Cub, even though I wanted him, I wasn\u2019t sure they would give him to me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn the end they did,&#8221; Lobov added. &#8220;All I had to do was message [UFC matchmaker] Sean Shelby, and I said \u2018Sean I know you think that Cub will beat me, but let me prove you wrong\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI know I\u2019ve been saying this a lot, that I\u2019m\u00a0going to get the knockout,\u201d Lobov continued, offering up a prediction on how this fight will go. \u201cAnd it hasn\u2019t\u00a0happened, but against [Teruto] Ishihara, I almost got it. I think against Cub, I get it done. He comes in, he\u2019s very open, he throws wild shots. He has never, I promise you,\u00a0in his life felt power like I have.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think Artem Lobov can succeed where fighters like Doo Ho Choi, Max Holloway and Frankie Edgar failed and put Cub Swanson down with strikes? Sound off, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 2\/28\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 22, in the main event of the UFC&#8217;s latest trip to Nashville, Tennessee, unranked featherweight Artem Lobov will take on the division&#8217;s fourth ranked fighter in Cub Swanson. Given their starkly different stations in the featherweight division not many people seem to give Lobov, who trains alongside Conor McGregor at SBG Ireland, much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":205742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10398,10448],"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>Artem Lobov predicts knockout win over Cub Swanson | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Not many people are giving the unranked Artem Lobov a chance against Cub Swanson, but the Conor McGregor training partner is predicting a knockout win.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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