Was anybody actually better than Khabib?

Finally beat 3 top guys and ran off.

Amazing fighter but it does kind of feel like his legacy will reflect as much.

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Gsp anyone?

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Iā€™m curious how he would have looked in pride/in a ring without the cage to assist

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Unconscious, thatā€™s how heā€™d have looked.

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I dont really like khabib, but i think hes the goat. He absolutely dismantled gaethje and poirier, destroyed conor, i dont think anyone was beating him

A 6 foot Khabib would fight at 170. 185 at most.

ā€¦and fail to make the cage multiple times. And refuse to do rematches; EVER. And never move up a division.

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BJ Penn
Matt Hughes
GSP
Charles Oliviera

ā€¦ all guys that are significantly better than Khabib. I wonder how Khabib would have done without IV.

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Which he got up immediately from. I guess youā€™re forgetting Abel Trujillo took Khabib down? Seriously, what do you think happens in a 5 round fight with the GOAT? Jones has the elite wrestling to negate Khabibā€™s entire game and is better literally everywhere else. You Khabib stans are something else.

We have no idea because he only fought something like 5 top 10 opponents in his career. He barely fought anyone decent.

Meanwhile Jones is getting close to 20 title wins against basically all top 5 comp, including a few all time p4p greats.

Khabib had so much potential but he just didnā€™t fight long enough at peak to know.

So many MMA fighters have looked unbeatable for 4-5 fights against top compā€¦ Itā€™s the fighters who can sustain that for 15-20 fights or more who are something special.

Retiring after those 5 ranked fights is robbing fans of opportunity to see if you were one of those greats or not.

We will never know if khabib was an all time great or just another decent fighter who had a short peak.

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100% this. Heā€™s unbeaten but that is the ONLY feather hin his GOAT cap. He has no ā€œmultiple weight beltsā€. He has no long run of title defenses. He has no rematch / rivalry like GSP, Jones, Anderson had. He did not even ā€œclearā€ his generation.

If Jon Jones retired after he beat Rashad in 2012 would we hold him in as high of regard as we do NOW? Hell no, but that is essentially what Khabib did. He defended three times and retired.

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OP and all his alts lives in delusions, as always

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He still would have out struck and dominated shogun and rampage no problem

Rampage would have powerbombed him

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Khabib won his belt from Al Iaquinta somehow.

Khabib defended his belt against two lazy featherweights who didnā€™t want to cut weight anymore and then Justin Gaethje.

He is not even the best UFC lightweight of all time.

He is not the best fighter of his era. Volk, Usman, Adesanya all superior.

He is probably top 15-20 ish MMA ALL TIME.

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He fought who they gave him and he dominated

A former FW Champ & LW champ, a former interim LW champ, and a former WSOF LW champ

Donā€™t forget his best win was against prime RDA in which he dominated from bell to bell

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