He didn’t even finish Al Iaquinta.
I’m curious who do you rank higher all time khabib or Conor
Usman has 2 more title defense than Khabob.
He also got KO’d by Leon and then looked awful in the rubber match
He also got KO’d by Leon and then looked awful in the rubber match
Well he could have quit like a baby, run home to mama after 3 title defenses and never been in those fights.
I’m curious who do you rank higher all time khabib or Conor
Khabib.
Conor never defended his belts.
The + for “Khabib is the GOAT”
- Very dominant against his competition. Maybe the most dominant
- Undefeated. 29-0 is 29-0. It’s not “Oh he avenged those losses” or “Oh TK wasn’t really a loss for Fedor” or “Matt Hammel didn’t actually beat Jon Jones”. It’s Twenty Motherfucking Nine and ZERO!
- I don’t see any other + for him. That, IMO, is the sum total of his case to be made for GOAT or even LW GOAT. I don’t see it.
The - for “Khabib is the GOAT”
- Didn’t clean out his generation or even the division
- Never beat a standing and current champion
- Quality of opposition is not great. He only has one win over any “at one time LW champ”; RDA and that was a decision win. Not a great case to be made here. Two the four best names on his resume (Poirier, McGregor) were originally Featherweights. Tavares, Johnson, Barboza etc all have bounced between 145 and 155. Again, he only fought ONE guy who was ever at any time the LW champion.
- He never did rematches
- He missed weight multiple times
- He never went up in weight
- He retired early in MMA terms
He just didn’t do enough to even be the LW greatest ever. COULD he beat all of the other LW’s ever? Probably. “Probably” ain’t making the case for GOAT though.
Khabib is not THE goat but he is the LW goat
That is arguable; his quality of opposition is weak.
Michael Johnson
Barboza
RDA
McGrgeor
Dustin
Justin
Nothing weak about that
Khabib is not THE goat but he is the LW goat
Nah. BJ PENN
Khabibi is only tied With BJ, Edgar, and Benson for title defenses, but BJ has a Welterweight belt, won from matt hughes an all time great.
Michael Johnson
Barboza
RDA
McGrgeor
Dustin
JustinNothing weak about that
Johnson, Barboza, McGregor and Dustin were all featherweights at some point.
Khabib was basically a welterweight killing himself to cut down so he could wrestlefuck featherweights.
He had to pull out of 2 or 3 fights because of weight-cutting issues no?
Khabib won his belt from Al Iaquinta somehow.
Khabib defended his belt against two lazy featherweights who didn’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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Conor and Dustin were LW champs
So does Brock’s win over Randy not count? Randy was a LHW champ
Bj Penn, a LW, beat Matt Hughes, a WW, twice
The + for “Khabib is the GOAT”
- Very dominant against his competition. Maybe the most dominant
- Undefeated. 29-0 is 29-0. It’s not “Oh he avenged those losses” or “Oh TK wasn’t really a loss for Fedor” or “Matt Hammel didn’t actually beat Jon Jones”. It’s Twenty Motherfucking Nine and ZERO!
Who are the other 20? yes nobody knows or heard anything about them
Conor and Dustin were LW champs
So does Brock’s win over Randy not count? Randy was a LHW champ
Dustin was never the LW Champ.
The wins count, but it does merit consideration. Brocks win over someone like shane carwin a full sized dangerous HW is more impressive than his win over randy.
You wanna compare GSP, Jones or Anderson to that list?