Did Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov accomplish their respective goals at Thursday’s UFC 229 press conference? And is the UFC playing it safe with promotional events out of a fear of potential chaos? Retired UFC and WEC fighter Danny Downes joins MMAjunkie columnist Ben Fowlkes to discuss in this week’s Trading Shots. * * * * Fowlkes: Hey Danny, have I told you about this amazing whiskey commercial I saw recently? It was really long, for one thing, but so compelling that I couldn’t take my eyes off it. See, it started with this manic Irishman pulling out bottles of various sizes and then pouring the sweet, sweet brown stuff into a series of plastic cups
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