Its funny when people shit on khabib for cutting weight and say itās the only reason he won. Then in the same breathe say his biggest wins are against former featherweights( McGregor/porier) . Do they not realize that those featherweights were doing the same thing khabib was doing lol. People hate on other people doing great things because they are to afraid or lazy to try to be great themselves .
Take Conor and Dustin. Conor eventually fought at 155 and 170. Dustin eventually went up and may do so again before itās all done. Khabib dipped out when he couldnāt make the weight any longer.
Edited to say, he wasnāt all that great at making weight when he was fighting.
Bro thereās stats out there showing khabib weighing dam near the same as his opponents on fight night . That right there makes the argument that he had a size advantage invalid . Iāve seen 155s that are way bigger than khabib on fight night .
Sorry man but no one can defend khabib over weight issues. Heās had more weight misses and fuck ups than anyone champion I can think of. To say heās no worse than other 155s is straight up bullshit
I get what youāre saying brother . When I fought I used to cut from 180-185 to 145. I was so careless with my weight between fights . But if you look at my fights I barely ever had a size advantage. I probably shouldāve been a 135 but I love food lol
What is an MMA wrestler/grappler? Guys like GSP, Fitch, Maia, Oliveira, Usman, Colby, Aoki, Sherk, Frankie, etc. You know, guys whose MMA games are primarily focused on wrestling and BJJ.
And no. Kamal fucking Shalorus (9-5-2) does not count. Nor does RDA whose last submission was in 2019 against Kevin Lee. And the sub before that one was against Magny back in 2017.
Khabib has faced no one with the submission game of Maia and no one with the wrestling of Usman.
And quite frankly, I donāt give a shit what Gaethje said. He lost the right to speak on anything wrestling or BJJ related after his performance with Khabib.
Shalarous and Gaethje both have legit wrestling TDD.
and I like how weāre not allowed to talk about RDA who took Colby down 4 times when he was a shell of himself and Colby scraped by him in a 48-47 decision when Khabib mauled him in his prime.
Prime RDA beats Colby where old RDA almost did.
Look at this killerās record and who stopped him in his prime run.
Youāre trying to prove Khabib is bigger though, but you canāt because his cage weight is that of an average sized LW. Cutting weight has to do with using steroids to preserve lean mass and formerly IVās which are now banned. Clean athletes like Khabib suffered. Without steroids and IVās, weight cutting is much more difficult.