5 Things we noted from UFC 229 Press Conference

#2 Khabib questions Conor McGregor and his team's audacity

Khabib and McGregor having a go at each other

One thing that we certainly picked up last evening's press conference was Khabib Nurmagomedov's constant questioning about the boldness of McGregor's fellow teammate Artem Lobov, with whom The Eagle had an intense backstage altercation at UFC 223.

Regardless of all the footage that went viral on social media, last night at the Radio City Music Hall, Khabib apparently once again agreed to the fact that he had indeed slapped McGregor's training partner Artem Lobov during their confrontation and later went on to question The Russian Hammer's fearlessness by stating that why Lobov didn't hit back at The Eagle despite taking a slap to the face?

“If my friend ever gets slapped, I would ask ‘why you didn’t give him back’. You have to fight. If you lose we gonna come. What’s wrong with him? What’s wrong with your team?”

Furthermore, Nurmagomedov also constantly kept on pointing out the fact that during the backstage incident at UFC 223, McGregor had shown up with some 30-40 people, instead of having just one, two, or even a maximum of ten guys around himself. If the latter was the case then maybe Khabib would've eventually gotten off that bus and had gone head-to-head against McGregor for the very first time.

"You tap like chicken." #UFC229 pic.twitter.com/uIKqJ6ohUj

— UFC (@ufc) September 20, 2018