Ackmed
Silver Belt
- Joined
- May 25, 2019
- Messages
- 11,631
- Reaction score
- 14,524
This is a long one so I played it while driving on the highway so couldn't make live Cliffs but some interesting things that stuck out:
- Khabib has great standup and he's happy his last fight got to prove the doubters (who thought Khabib was an incomplete fighter) wrong.
- His standup improved each fight and this time he pressured and beat one of the most dangerous strikers in a fight that was mostly standing.
- Usman called Khabib to ask (as a friend) if its OK for him to train with Gaethje and Khabib said definitely, he wanted Gaethje to get all the help he can.
- Khabib never lost a "sparring session" although he has lost some sparring rounds. A sparring session at AKA has rotating opponents who are fresh each round so its unheard of to never lose a session.
- Cain, DC, everyone else who trained AKA has lost a sparring session
- Khabib has never tapped in training
- Javier wanted to postpone the fight off after both mumps and broken toes but Khabib insisted he would be fine.