Conor and Barboza are both great strikers, but in a much different way. Barboza isn't a great puncher, he's got great kicks and great clinch work which he embraces when people are in punching range. It's pretty easy to take down a kicker who embraces the clinch, but Conor is more of a puncher who avoids clinch at all cost and routinely keeps control of the distance with his punches.
This is going to be a much harder fight for khabib, especially coz who knows how much wrestling and jujitz Connors been training in the last couple of years since we saw him fight.
