Was anybody actually better than Khabib?

He didn’t even finish Al Iaquinta.

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I’m curious who do you rank higher all time khabib or Conor

Usman has 2 more title defense than Khabob.

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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.

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Khabib.

Conor never defended his belts.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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?

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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

Who are the other 20? :laughing: yes nobody knows or heard anything about them

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?

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