So you may not know what happened to WSOF fighter Rasul Mirzaev. Degastanis (later confirmed Khabib's people and had previous bad blood) nearly assassinated him, he's lucky to be alive honestly (Got shot multiple times, beat with weapons, etc... in his own home). Conor didn't want the same thing to happen to Lobov because it was a similar situation in a way because both were started by an argument over Conor and Khabib.
Conor did not want the same thing happening to Lobov and he wanted to make sure it doesn't end that kind of way again, especially to a friend that stuck with Conor since he was a nobody. You really think Conor just did that because he just wanted to? Come on now...