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Personally, I feel like Khabib is a very good fighter, and the best lightweight fighter in the UFC right now, and likely smash Conor and what's his face, um, Ferguson.
However, I feel like what stands out to me from his game is his ability to transition from wrestling to throws, I guess in a way chain wrestling, you could call it, but showing some of judo, though I guess judo and wrestling it's a lot similar without a gi, especially when it comes to sambo, and his ability to keep people down when he takes them down and do some damage on top.
However, some people are talking about his grappling to be something that has never been seen. Problem with highly rating khabib like that for me is his lack of high-level wrestling pedigree competition. Compared to GSP, who was taking literally everyone down, with a good wrestling backgrounds, whose bread and butter was wrestling and taking people down and gnp, who has Khabib faced that were like that? Khabib struggled against tibabu and Healy, and arguablly lost that fight , whether Tibau was on special horsemeat or not
I know it's easy to hate on Chris Weidman, but he faced high level wrestlers, and he also, like GSP, took literally everyone down, similar to Jon Jones. But Khabib never really had a chance to prove himself like that.
For example, Gunnar was looking like a monster, and he is rightfully so, but when he faced off against Demian Maia, he got molested. So, what happens when Khabib faces off against some high level wrestlers on regular basis?
I know lots of fighters speak highly of his grappling, and it's rightfully so. But, thing is, I am sure he is very good, but match ups make fights. It's always easier to look like a beast depending on the match ups he gets.
For example, if he was in a middleweight division right now, which is pretty beastly at the moment, if he had to go up against, in a pound for pound sense, against Romero, Jacare, Weidman, Brunson, Kennedy, could he impose his game against them like he does now? I doubt that.
However, I feel like what stands out to me from his game is his ability to transition from wrestling to throws, I guess in a way chain wrestling, you could call it, but showing some of judo, though I guess judo and wrestling it's a lot similar without a gi, especially when it comes to sambo, and his ability to keep people down when he takes them down and do some damage on top.
However, some people are talking about his grappling to be something that has never been seen. Problem with highly rating khabib like that for me is his lack of high-level wrestling pedigree competition. Compared to GSP, who was taking literally everyone down, with a good wrestling backgrounds, whose bread and butter was wrestling and taking people down and gnp, who has Khabib faced that were like that? Khabib struggled against tibabu and Healy, and arguablly lost that fight , whether Tibau was on special horsemeat or not
I know it's easy to hate on Chris Weidman, but he faced high level wrestlers, and he also, like GSP, took literally everyone down, similar to Jon Jones. But Khabib never really had a chance to prove himself like that.
For example, Gunnar was looking like a monster, and he is rightfully so, but when he faced off against Demian Maia, he got molested. So, what happens when Khabib faces off against some high level wrestlers on regular basis?
I know lots of fighters speak highly of his grappling, and it's rightfully so. But, thing is, I am sure he is very good, but match ups make fights. It's always easier to look like a beast depending on the match ups he gets.
For example, if he was in a middleweight division right now, which is pretty beastly at the moment, if he had to go up against, in a pound for pound sense, against Romero, Jacare, Weidman, Brunson, Kennedy, could he impose his game against them like he does now? I doubt that.
