Jan 27, 2025 · - Khabib also has the record for out and out 10-8 domination While Jones was picking his shots getting close decisions in 10-9 rounds, Khabib was mauling his opponents to the point where he was granted 10-8 rounds, while testing clean. So while Jones might have the better resume, round for round, Khabib was statistically the best fighter.

Jan 23, 2025 · Khabib can take it if he wanted to when he wanted to He was very disciplined with the concept of “position over submission”. He instills this attitude in his fighters’s training, and for modern mma competition, its a must-rule to follow

Feb 3, 2018 · Rank the resume's of Khabib, Islam, and Khamzat for the first 5 years of their UFC career: Khabib 8-0 (2012-2016) W's vs Shalorus, Tibau, Tavares, Trujillo, Healy, RDA, Horcher, Johnson (2 fights away from title shot) Islam 7-1 (2015-2019) W's vs Kuntz, Wade, Lentz, Tibau, Johnson, Arman, Ramos L vs Martins (5 fights away from title shot)

Jan 25, 2025 · Not really Khabib's fault that the LW division at the time was striking-centric, same with Islam now, but all the other divisions below LHW have much more variety and are much healthier and have been for a long time, so to be top dog in …

Jan 19, 2025 · Khabib did not like to finish his opponents early he wanted to smash and make them suffer. Islam has admitted many times that khabib mindset is unmatched and while islam may be more skilled he never was as dominant in controlling and scaring opponents, Islam would have died in fight til death against Khabib who was his bigger brother.

Oct 20, 2004 · In a video posted on the Bellator MMA Instagram account, Fedor Emelianenko and Khabib Nurmagomedov are seen exchanging pleasantries and posing for a photo in the locker room at the Coca-Cola Arena. Emelianenko was on hand to corner Vadim Nemkov in the co-main event, while Nurmagomedov was coaching a number of Dagestani fighters — most notably ...

Oct 20, 2004 · Khabib believes the champ was forced into the fight by UFC officials. “The difficulty was only because Merab didn't want to fight,” Khabib recently told Gorilla Fighting. “I believe that the UFC made Merab fight and they pressured him and made him fight [Umar]. The UFC needed a co-main event fight. That's my personal opinion.

Jun 12, 2007 · “Since Khabib has been saying he is the greatest lightweight of all time and I am number 2 best lightweight many people have been asking me why didn’t Khabib fight Usman for the 170-pound belt or compete for 170 belt like I did many times… in my humble opinion it is because he is not proficient and confident in jiujitsu,” said Penn.

Dec 17, 2015 · Boo Hoo, I hope Khabib's feeling weren't hurt. If I was on a airline and a Muslim looking guy was sitting by the emergency exit and was causing a problem, I wouldn't be comfortable either. Sorry to say, but that's the world we live in now. Who is it that wants to kill Westerners for the last 20-30 years [or more]? Muslims.

Apr 14, 2019 · Khabib would've probably gotten his ass handed to him by Gray Maynard but we have to sit here and listen to Sherdoggers try to compare him to Jon Jones when Khabib wouldn't even move up to 156 much less 170 to fight a 40 year old GSP.