I find the mythical nature of Khabibs hype to be amazing. I'm not saying he isn't a great fighter or that his style isn't a nightmare for Conor, but Khabib has an ancient history of decisioning journeymen and a recent history of beating the breaks off of guys a light year outside of the title picture and a favorable style match up.
Sorry but guys like Iaquinta, Felder, Miller, Lauzon, etc are just so far off the level of title contenders. Johnson just squeaked out a decision at FW to go 2-5 in his last 7. Prior to that he was choked out by Elkins. Barboza was a promotional pick tailor made for Khabib. Barboza is a viscous kicker with mediocre hands and limited ground game. Horcher needs no explanation. Prior to that you have to go back 4.5 years. In that last 4 years Khabib has faced a single top 10 guy who was tailor made for him.
Given Khabibs extremely soft competition (for a Title holder) he has had 5 of his last 7 fights go to decision. Mauling a couple guys that can't defend themselves on the ground is nice, but he's not a big finisher and these are journeymen. Conor has 10 UFC and he's finished everyone except Diaz at WW and Max Holloway. If you look at the guys Conor has fought vs Khabib, the competition is not even close. If you look at their ability to finish, it's not even close
The people that think Khabib is a bad match up for Conor or that he can take Conor down and beat him up have a valid point. My problem is all these fans acting as if Khabibs career and accomplishments to this point is anything more than can crushing and decisioning journeymen are just totally delusional. Al Iaquinta stepped in to fight Khabib with 1 fight in the last 3 years vs Diego Sanchez. Al is and always will be a journeyman. Al was trained for a 3 round fight. People praising Khabibs performance and not concerned about it are clueless