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
Which he got up immediately from. I guess youāre 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 Khabibās 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 didnāt fight long enough at peak to know.
So many MMA fighters have looked unbeatable for 4-5 fights against top compā¦ Itās 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.
100% this. Heās unbeaten but that is the ONLY feather hin his GOAT cap. He has no āmultiple weight beltsā. He has no long run of title defenses. He has no rematch / rivalry like GSP, Jones, Anderson had. He did not even āclearā 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.