Okay but it's still insane to claim Khabib won the standup in a fight he lost the standup in apart from 1 surprising KD that surprised him just as much as anybody. You can literally see he throws it and was already backing off because he was expecting to get countered. Then actually does get countered when he overzealously rushed in thinking Conor was more hurt than he was cause yeah, Conor's still the better striker. Which is why Khabib eventually shoots and why the 2nd round was spent on the ground. It was his TD, not KD, that led to Khabib winning it 10-8.
You might as well make the equally stupid statement like saying Conor won the grappling because he equally did surprising stuff like defending passes, subs, and escaping out from underneath Khabib, including full mount, multiple times. People were pretty equally shocked that Conor did so well defensively against Khabib on the ground.
Just because they each did surprisingly well in certain moments in each other's domain doesn't change that Conor's the better striker and Khabib's the better grappler. We knew that before the fight, and we knew it afterwards. Turns out Khabib just had the stronger grappling to actually win. It is what it is.