Is Khabib's wrestling D-1 level or Olympic level?

SandisLL said:
What kind of Black belts Khabib claimed to have?
How belts helps to fight?
We had another guy with 2 - 3 rd degree Black belts and 1 - 1 rd degree Black belt > 1 punch from Cosmo send him to ICU and on suregon's table.
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Calm down I'm joking.
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Lavitz said:
No doubt Khabib is a good grappler but he would have to beat out the 70kg rep from the US who is James Green. A world medalist.
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Well Khabib would be trying out for the team in his early/mid-20s, so not necessarily.
 
His core strength must be D1 though. Once he locked on, it’s like just about everyone goes for a ride
 
Hard to say really, he's never attempting to pin guys which is the end game of wrestling. So we never see him on that style to actually know whether he competes as well at compeition wrestling. But if I had to guess if he faced elite level wrestlers in a wrestling competition he would likely lose.
 
TheLastEmperorReurns said:
Well Khabib would be trying out for the team in his early/mid-20s, so not necessarily.
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From that time period he would have to face Jordan Burroughs then. Quite the task.

And Worlds are coming up. I’m excited to see the results! Russia, USA, and Japan are looking strong this year.
 
Andrei Orlovski said:
Does anyone know how well he does in straight wrestling against actual top wrestlers?
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I don’t think he could outwrestle a true professional wrestler like Brock Lesnar.

He’s going up against amateur and college level wrestlers in his MMA fights.
 
Ingjr said:
Pardon my ignorance but could someone please explain to me the main differences between a grappler and a wrestler? I'm serious, I've been watching this sport for a long time and I'm still not sure I know the difference. Thx in advance
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The end goal of wrestling is pinning your opponent, where the end result in grappling is to submit your opponent. So there are moves and strategies in wrestling that don’t necessarily apply to grappling. I’m far from an expert, especially in terms of wrestling but that’s a crude explanation since I don’t think I saw anyone else comment
 
Those guys in Olympic aren't A level athletes they would be in MMA if they were a level athletes. Khabib would outwrestle his division
 
Yogi level
 
Jackedwrestler said:
lol folkstyle wrestlers are not that strong compared to freestyle. They do not know how to hand fight, they have no idea how to do groundwork and their shots are sloppy. Even your college wrestlers are nothing great.

I have wrestled American highschoolers and D1 level wrestlers. They are not as great as you think. If i can tool some American highschool wrestling champ I think Khabib will.

You realise Khabib is from Dagestan where wrestling is practised from a very young age. This idea that he is an MMA wrestler is nonsense. He has wrestled in a region notorious for developing very high level wrestlers his whole life. He has managed to adapt it to MMA, but his base is wresting.



There isn't a single wrestler in the USA who is as accomplished as the man Khabib is wrestling in this video.

Your senior team was very average, nothing special. Somehow in recent years they seem to be much fitter and stronger than any other wrestlers though. It must be their new strength and conditioning routine.
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Roman and Khabib are not wrestling in that video, looks like just an over under pummeling drill. If they competed in a real wrestling match (GR or Freestyle) Roman would tech him in under a minute.
 
Khabib has been wrestling/grappling longer than most NCAA champions and wrestlers. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Khabib were capable of mauling current NCAA top 3 all american wrestlers in purely wrestling/grappling.

I say this only because we've never even seen an olympic, NCAA, or BJJ grappler implement their grappling as well and as dominant as he has.

Even the best guys like GSP and DC have had their wrestling games thwarted in a few fights. DC got taken down more times by Gustaffson and GSP couldn't take down Hendricks much (A fantastic wrestler also).
 
TheLastEmperorReurns said:
Wrestling was his first martial art.

He switched to sambo/judo as a 12 year old.

Maybe that’s why he’s such an effective grappler in MMA- his grappling arsenal consists of 4 different martial arts whereas most others just do wrestling or BJJ.
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I've said this for years. He blends multiple martial arts into his grappling game n uses bits from each. He's insanely good in mma. Dunno how effective it would be on an olympic wrestling level. Prob not very good tbh.
 
Pakman said:
I've said this for years. He blends multiple martial arts into his grappling game n uses bits from each. He's insanely good in mma. Dunno how effective it would be on an olympic wrestling level. Prob not very good tbh.
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Reasonable to think that when it comes to Olympics, but I think people are putting D-1 on too high of a pedestal to say that Khabib is not a "D-1 level wrestler". Way too high of a pedestal.
 
The word from AKA was that he was more than holding his own with Ed Ruth (3x D1 national champ) in training for whatever that's worth
 
Overboostin said:
The word from AKA was that he was more than holding his own with Ed Ruth (3x D1 national champ) in training for whatever that's worth
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Everyone who has ever wrestled with Khabib remarks just how good he is.

It's not pure freestyle wrestling, and he's not trying to pin people, but he holds his own against everyone he wrestles with in the gym, which includes guys like Cormier.
 
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