All the greats went and found a challenge if their wasn’t one in their weight class. Everyone talks about Khabib being welterweight size. Plenty there. Ferguson had a 12 fight win streak and a better ground game than anyone Khabib fought and some how never got a title shot. He also some how was able to avoid Charles, and the whole time UFC is feeding everyone a steady diet of Khabib is the greatest ground specialist ever. All we know for sure is his grappling is good enough to beat RDA by decision. As far as I can tell the highest level of grappling he chose to test himself in was NAGA. Do a wrestling match against a top wrestler. A grappling match against a high level Ju Jitsu practitioner. Until then Khabib’s grappling is just above RDA. Saying anything else is just hype.
Kevin Lee showed signs that his ground game was more effective against the guys Khabib faced and Oliveira smoked him.
Guys like Al Iaquinta who beat Lee twice
Oh no wait
I said ground game. He chose to kick box. He was still very dominant on the ground.
This is bar none the dumbest shit anyone’s ever said to argue against someone being the GOAT of a weight class.
Who’s the dumbass? I never was trying to argue that. If you read all my posts I keep telling everyone I’m not trying to do that.
Khabib won 2 10-8 rounds against Al on the ground in one fight.
Lee lost both fights without ever taking a 10-8.
Best ever, beat one alcoholic, over hyped gaythje who barely win fights, best win RDA, nobody knows who’s the other 25 fighters
The All time greatest! XD
Who was he supposed to fight?
Chandler, Ferguson, Olivera, Daruish
Different promotion the whole time they were fighting, canceled 4X, wasn’t top ten, wasn’t top ten. None of these are realistic considering the timing.
LOL
Adesanya, Usman and Volk all have better claim to all time great over Kabob.
“superstriker Hughes”
LMAO at this. That is fucking hilarious. When Hughes was active no one ever claimed he was a super striker. Hughes was about as pure of a wrestler as you can be. He was very good, but never ever was striking his best attribute.
BJ Penn fought the light heavy champ and this was when Lyoto was about to enter the Lyoto era.
Well, in OP’s defense there are many people named Khabib in this world.
In the past month I’ve seen people say Khabib was never that good and Tony Ferguson was never that good.
One of the many reasons I’m pro-choice. Lots of should have been aborted morons plaguing the earth.
Sorry dont get it wrong.
Khabib is very good.
He just isn’t anywhere close to MMA goat.
The best you could say is that he is “one of the best Lightweights of all time” up there with BJ, Edgar, Benson etc but thats it.
He isn’t anywhere close to a Mighty Mouse, Jon Jones, GSP, Fedor, Anderson level.
and even if you look at people who fought in the same era Usman with 5 title defences and Adesanya with 4 have a better claim to “all time greatness” than Khabib.
Prime Penn got his ass kicked by a 125er twice. Then he dissapeared. His best win is Florian (lol) and he got a couple of lucky punches in against Hughes. (who has no stand up) His biggest accomplishment is a somewhat competitive bout against a green GSP. Worse hype job than Masvidal.