How is Khabib hype diffferent from the "Machida era"?

[Theproof]

This is some random ass shit

 

[Stevanchez]

Khabib's win streak is nearly 2x longer?

Khabib's been WAY more dominate in his fights and in his title defense?

Khabib wasn't almost triangled by Tito Ortiz?

 

[imarayda]

you summed it up yourself though. It was "love" aka, some hype from the mouth breathers. Look at the forum after every PPV. Every time a new champion wins there is talk about how they are now the goat. machida had hype, there is no doubt about it. He absolutely didn't have consensus as the goat and some unrivaled fighter that will retire undefeated and be god tier though. that is 100% revisionist history.

You’re right prob consensus goat status. But to be fair had he come along recently he may have gotten some goat status. There is no doubt that the use of “goat” has increased significantly from those days.

 

[dfoster]

Khabib has that scary Eastern European mystique while Machida is just a urine drinking Karate Kid nerd. Asians in general don’t instill fear.