Top 5, 22-3, 8 fight winstreak with a a win over your boy Damian Maia, Vincent Luque, Wonderboy, Brady ect. and you’re really so sure an old school GSP beats him? Belal’s a current day title contender not a gatekeeper.
You don’t really have respect for the evolution of the game do you?
I mean, at best GSP would struggle against him and Belal couldn’t even move against Khabib.
I’m not saying Belal would de facto beat GSP because GSP was a great talent and better athlete though from a more primitive era, but to act like GSP would walk through him is insanely unrealistic.
LOL, yeah, Khabib and GSP, from two totally different eras. It’s a shame they didn’t coexist in the same time period, to actually give them a chance whether they wanted to choose to fight or not.
Edit: I acknowledge that’s not entirely Khabib’s fault, it’s probably shared three ways with Dana and GSP.
I’ve heard all three present evidence against the other two over the years. All of the evidence seemed cut and dry, nothing seemed like an outrageous accusation against the others. So I’m left looking back at the situation thinking that there was simply no point in history where all three guys wanted this fight. Fucking sucks for the fans. I wish all three guys could have gotten their shit together. True talk: 99% of my “hatred” of Khabib (I don’t actually hate him at all, I think he’s an amazing fighter, just not the GOAT) is due to him walking away from the sport edit: and robbing us of this fight. It’s just anathema to everything I stand for.
And true talk: I don’t actually like GSP that much for the exact same reason, and I’m in an unenviable situation where I’ve got to pick between GSP and Khabib for GOAT. Part of me wants to just say fuck you to conventional wisdom and say “it’s Hendo”.
JBJ is realistically the GOAT, but he’s a cheating piece of shit, and an asterisk next to that title just isn’t enough. So here we are. Arguing whether it’s GSP or Khabib. LOL. Fuck.
It’s true JBJ has the GOAT resume. I think a LHW 6 foot something Khabib would wreck him but that’s a bit too hypothetical to argue. Not many would be able to argue against him if it weren’t for that asterisk.