Islam Makhachev better than Khabib?

[The Bloody Nine]

Nope.

 

[The Siege]

Didn't lose, but also didn't take any risks or fight the best in his division.

Come on, he fought the next man up and beat the best LWs of his generation.

Besides Tony, who was "the best of his division" that he could have realistically fought but didn't?

 

[Steve Fox]

Ares just added Khabib to the list of things he hates. Which is everything, except wmma, Ian garry, and Paddy Pimbletch

..and that's ok. We accept Ares as he is. A mighty Sherbro.

 

[The Bloody Nine]

Come on, he fought the next man up and beat the best LWs of his generation.

Besides Tony, who was "the best of his division" that he could have realistically fought but didn't?

Don't feed the trolling turd.

 

[Ares Black]

Come on, he fought the next man up and beat the best LWs of his generation.

Except that he didn't do either of those things.
That is exactly the kind of revisionist history that I'm talking about.

Besides Tony, who was "the best of his division" that he could have realistically fought but didn't?

Do Bronx for one.

 

[The Siege]

Don't feed the trolling turd.

I don't think he's trolling lol I'm legit interested to hear who he is talking about when he said he didn't fight the best of his division (besides Tony).

 

[HHJ]

I posed this very question not too long after the Islam/Porier fight and added a poll.


Would you like to see the results?

POLL: Who Do you think is the better fighter? Islam or Khabib?

forums.sherdog.com

 

[Ares Black]

I don't think he's trolling lol I'm legit interested to hear who he is talking about when he said he didn't fight the best of his division (besides Tony).

Not fully trolling, no.

 

[Queenofchaos]

Khabib should never be compared to Islam.

Islam isn't scared to move up

 

[HHJ]

Khabib should never be compared to Islam.

Islam isn't scared to move up

Holy shit look at what the cat dragged in. I wonder what other account youve been on this whole time? Did Aldogoat get banned??

 

[The Siege]

Except that he didn't do either of those things.
That is exactly the kind of revisionist history that I'm talking about.

Conor was available, in fact Dana would have booked it 5 times in a row, what did Khabib do? Take on Dustin and Gaethje.

He beat prime RDA, a ranked Barboza, Johnson, Conor just two years removed from a Double Champ win, Dustin, Gaethje, and was willing to accept any opponent including Max or Pettis or whoever when the fight with Tony for the belt fell through.

Please, which fighter did he refuse or which undeserving fighter did he let skip the line for a TS?

In what way is this revisionist history?

Do Bronx for one.

During Khabib's title reign, Do Bronx was fighting David Teymur, Jared Gordon, and Nik Lentz.

By the time Khabib retired, Charles best win was #8 Kevin Lee while Charles was ranked #13. This was at the start of the Pandemic.

Khabib then retired a few months later in October. Even with the Lee win, Do Bronx wasn't even in line for a TS. Chandler was..

He fought the best of his division, unfortunately Charles was a bit too late and couldn't get there before Khabib retired.

 

[Ares Black]

Conor was available, in fact Dana would have booked it 5 times in a row, what did Khabib do? Take on Dustin and Gaethje.

He beat prime RDA, a ranked Barboza, Johnson, Conor just two years removed from a Double Champ win, Dustin, Gaethje, and was willing to accept any opponent including Max or Pettis or whoever when the fight with Tony for the belt fell through.

Please, which fighter did he refuse or which undeserving fighter did he let skip the line for a TS?

In what way is this revisionist history?

During Khabib's title reign, Do Bronx was fighting David Teymur, Jared Gordon, and Nik Lentz.

By the time Khabib retired, Charles best win was #8 Kevin Lee while Charles was ranked #13. This was at the start of the Pandemic.

Khabib then retired a few months later in October. Even with the Lee win, Do Bronx wasn't even in line for a TS. Chandler was..

He fought the best of his division, unfortunately Charles was a bit too late and couldn't get there before Khabib retired.

TLDR

 

[The Siege]

TLDR

 

[kingmob6]

This is just hypothetical, but Khabib would have embarrassed Charles at his best.

 

[Uber_Noober]

If by better you mean he pays his taxes and doesn’t have to bail out to another country, then yeah I guess he is better.

 

[HHJ]

This is just hypothetical, but Khabib would have embarrassed Charles at his best.

Thats why he was so confident Islam could get it, cos he's like 3 islams put together and knew he would easily beat Olives.

 

[The Siege]

@Ares Black

 

[Ares Black]

This is just hypothetical, but Khabib would have embarrassed Charles at his best.

Maybe! Too bad we'll never know for sure.

 

[Ares Black]

Thats why he was so confident Islam could get it, cos he's like 3 islams put together and knew he would easily beat Olives.

Wow, how disrespectful of Makhachev. You know fighter bashing is against the forum rules, right?

 

[IronGolem007]

Islam would never say his mentor is better than him. That isn’t the end of the argument I mean come on… he’s being respectful…

With that said there’s no easy answer. But if Islam strings together a 10 fight title defense the conversation has to be had

Their trainer says this as well, genius.