Gaethje believes he had Khabib in a bad spot; Mentions Khabib is very strong.

Arrrrgh said:
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I do it because its easier to read quotes than put it in a quote box, I find. I borrowed the idea form someone on this forum. If it doesn't help, I'll just stop doing it. Sometimes putting it in a quote box hides the full quote and people have to click more to reveal.
 
Iroh said:
LOL, and so are you. You come across as the Khabib equivalent of the worst of Conor Nuthuggers.
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Nah, I'm not actually. If I saw Khabib take damage and on the backfoot I would have no problem admitting it, I'm a fan but not delusional. I stay objective. I'm saying that people on Sherdog aren't objective when it comes to Khabib because he faces so little adversity they start imagining every little thing as Khabib taking serious damage. Like I'm saying, in any random MMA fight the fighters take more leg kicks and punches than Khabib in his entire career yet people think 5 pitiful leg kicks got Khabib "in a bad spot".

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Gaethje did next to nothing. Just accept it.
 
Iroh said:
LOL, and so are you. You come across as the Khabib equivalent of the worst of Conor Nuthuggers.
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He believes Khabib is some super human Professional Wrestler like figure who hulks up when he takess damage and say it doesn't affect him. Look at the conclusions this man is jumping to. He thinkks I'm arguing that Gaethje's leg kicks would have changed the fight. I don't think that.
 
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NurmaGOATedov said:
Nah, I'm not actually. If I saw Khabib take damage and on the backfoot I would have no problem admitting it, I'm a fan but not delusional. I stay objective. I'm saying that people on Sherdog aren't objective when it comes to Khabib because he faces so little adversity they start imagining every little thing as Khabib taking serious damage. Like I'm saying, in any random MMA fight the fighters take more leg kicks and punches than Khabib in his entire career yet people think 5 pitiful leg kicks got Khabib "in a bad spot".

<KhabibBS>

Gaethje did next to nothing. Just accept it.
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Gaethje said that. Not me dude. <Lmaoo>

I said those leg kicks was not enough to stop khabib.

Learn how to freaking read.
 
NurmaGOATedov said:
Nah, I'm not actually. If I saw Khabib take damage and on the backfoot I would have no problem admitting it, I'm a fan but not delusional. I stay objective. I'm saying that people on Sherdog aren't objective when it comes to Khabib because he faces so little adversity they start imagining every little thing as Khabib taking serious damage. Like I'm saying, in any random MMA fight the fighters take more leg kicks and punches than Khabib in his entire career yet people think 5 pitiful leg kicks got Khabib "in a bad spot".

<KhabibBS>

Gaethje did next to nothing. Just accept it.
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What happens in other fights has absolutely no baring on what happened in Khabib's fights. There is no objectivity in such a skewed comparison.

A bad spot might be a bit of an overstatement, but not by that much, because those leg kicks were definitely getting Khabib's attention. It's basically just nitpicking and playing the semantics game with the wording Gaethje used. Gaethje has very hard kicks, it doesn't take many for the opponent to become wary of them. How much they actually hurt or did damage is almost impossible to tell for us. But if you completely dismiss them, like you do, you just come across like a newb to combat sports, frankly.
Maybe, you should take a single hard leg kick from a specialist for you to realize the threat they pose.
 
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No shame in losing to Khabib -- I scored round 1 for Khabib and it seemed to be a matter of time from the start before Khabib would win, but I feel Gaethje acquitted himself quite well during the fight. He most certainly did land some nice offense in my opinion and fought valiantly. Unfortunately, his bottom game is (self admittedly) nonexistent it seems other than trying to get up. Even if he had a good bottom game for defense, Khabib is gonna Khabib.
 
Iroh said:
What happens in other fights has absolutely no baring on what happened in Khabib's fights. There is no objectivity in such a skewed comparison.

A bad spot might be a bit of an overstatement, but not by that much, because those leg kicks were definitely getting Khabib's attention. It's basically just nitpicking and playing the semantics game with the wording Gaethje used. Gaethje has very hard kicks, it doesn't take many for the opponent to become wary of them. How much they actually hurt or did damage is almost impossible to tell for us. But if you completely dismiss them, like you do, you just come across like a newb to combat sports, frankly.
Maybe, you should take a single hard leg kick from a specialist for you to realize the threat they pose.
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I'm a semi pro kickboxer in my country, I know how leg kicks feel, probably better than you. Sure you can argue that any strikes inflict damage but those leg kicks Gaethje landed were simply insignificant. I don't even know why I'm arguing this, man got finished early in the 2nd round.
 
Well one thing is for sure, and thats not Khabibs sambo/wrestling credentials...its that pure strength advantage he has on his opponents, the man is simply too strong for the division. Thats his biggest advantage imo.
 
I did have Justin winning the first, man his bjj is extremely suspect, but Khabib deserves credit.
 
Leg kicks were working. But TDD was no good as I suspected..
 
Gaijthe was backpedalling for every second of that fight, was clipped with knees and punches, was taken down and barely escaped an armbar, a baratoplata and was shortly put to sleep via a triangle. All in under 7 minutes.

I like Gaijthe, but it's weird that he's doing some McGregor level shit and blindly overplaying his role in that fight. His big, looping missed punches that had him nearly falling over were more memorable than the few leg kicks landed that didn't even phase Khabib. His great 'distance control' looked a lot like running straight backwards.

Not shitting on Gaijthe - everyone falls apart against Khabib, but that was a straight demolition. Maybe once you get run over by the Eagle you just hold on to any part of the fight where you weren't getting completely handled as a coping mechanism. McGregor has written a fucking book on it.
 
NurmaGOATedov said:
I'm a semi pro kickboxer in my country, I know how leg kicks feel, probably better than you. Sure you can argue that any strikes inflict damage but those leg kicks Gaethje landed were simply insignificant. I don't even know why I'm arguing this, man got finished early in the 2nd round.
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If you really are, you seem to be the very delusional kind of fighter. You think you know better than Khabib's trainer and his opponent. Might want to take a more humble stance (a la Khabib) on this one.

Yeah, I doubt the "bad spot" Gaethje was talking about was in the second round. Someone can be in a bad spot at one moment and out of it the next moment, because the person changed the position of where/how the fight takes place and the dominant role can switch to the other person.
 
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spannered said:
Gaijthe was backpedalling for every second of that fight, was clipped with knees and punches, was taken down and barely escaped an armbar, a baratoplata and was shortly put to sleep via a triangle. All in under 7 minutes.

I like Gaijthe, but it's weird that he's doing some McGregor level shit and blindly overplaying his role in that fight. His big, looping missed punches that had him nearly falling over were more memorable than the few leg kicks landed that didn't even phase Khabib. His great 'distance control' looked a lot like running straight backwards.

Not shitting on Gaijthe - everyone falls apart against Khabib, but that was a straight demolition. Maybe once you get run over by the Eagle you just hold on to any part of the fight where you weren't getting completely handled as a coping mechanism. McGregor has written a fucking book on it.
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Amazing post, said it better than I could! Thanks.
 
Iroh said:
What happens in other fights has absolutely no baring on what happened in Khabib's fights. There is no objectivity in such a skewed comparison.

A bad spot might be a bit of an overstatement, but not by that much, because those leg kicks were definitely getting Khabib's attention. It's basically just nitpicking and playing the semantics game with the wording Gaethje used. Gaethje has very hard kicks, it doesn't take many for the opponent to become wary of them. How much they actually hurt or did damage is almost impossible to tell for us. But if you completely dismiss them, like you do, you just come across like a newb to combat sports, frankly.
Maybe, you should take a single hard leg kick from a specialist for you to realize the threat they pose.
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maybe in few months we'll get a real candid interview aobut the fight. I agree with gaethje the leg kicks were doing damage, but they weren't going to change the outcome of the fight. Khabib ate them pretty well, but I'm curious to hear about what he expecting in the grappling, what he thought was going to happen when spawled against khabib and him speaking on the the chain wrestling of khabib. I also would have loved to hear what he thought about khabib's striking. Lota of guys after they finish fighting him said he's hard to hit and good at disrupting rhythm
 
Peli said:
I do it because its easier to read quotes than put it in a quote box, I find. I borrowed the idea form someone on this forum. If it doesn't help, I'll just stop doing it. Sometimes putting it in a quote box hides the full quote and people have to click more to reveal.
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I just thought it looked random.

Perhaps color will play more a role in grammar down the road now that we read electronically more than on paper...

I've never seen that for quotes though. It may work but you may want to do something simpler and easier to understand--like indenting and perhaps itallicize/resize.

I do it because its easier to read quotes than put it in a quote box, I find. I borrowed the idea form someone on this forum. If it doesn't help, I'll just stop doing it. Sometimes putting it in a quote box hides the full quote and people have to click more to reveal.
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It's basically what the quote boxes are doing. And it's been 20 years since I was in grammar school but I think indenting is technically the correct way to handle longer quotes if you aren't quoting inline with quotation marks.

Rules should be tested and redefined when there is a better way. And forums are hardly the place to be grammar police. I see errors up and down my own posts all the time (this one included).

It just wasnt clear to me what you were doing.
 
Peli said:
maybe in few months we'll get a real candid interview aobut the fight. I agree with gaethje the leg kicks were doing damage, but they weren't going to change the outcome of the fight. Khabib ate them pretty well, but I'm curious to hear about what he expecting in the grappling, what he thought was going to happen when spawled against khabib and him speaking on the the chain wrestling of khabib. I also would have loved to hear what he thought about khabib's striking. Lota of guys after they finish fighting him said he's hard to hit and good at disrupting rhythm
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I'm guessing he didn't anticipate being hunted down with a high pace like Khabib did. I think that threw him off the most and it also affected his TDD, as he had to be hyper aware of the stand up pressure from multiple angles while he was being hunted down and also just the arsenal of grappling techniques Khabib can employ from all kinds of positions, distances, levels and angles. Easy to make mistakes when you don't know what is coming next. I also think being helpless at the end of the 1st round, and getting saved by the bell, probably demoralized him a good bit.
 
Limping for three weeks? Come on, he took a few kicks, like everyone does in every fight, and you could argue the only reason he reacted to sone of them was the broken foot, Gaethje got ran over easily
 
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