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Khabib has a history of cheating. One of the most glaring examples is his last fight before joining the UFC. His opponent was a regional journeyman with 20+ losses and Khabib still felt the need to cheat by grabbing the ropes to prevent a takedown. Khabib's cheating was so egregious that the referee finally took a point away.
The fact that you had to go to Nurmagomedov's pre-UFC run to find him fouling once in an MMA contest, when he wasn't even close to his prime, says it all. Reaching so incredibly hard with that one.
Here is another example. Khabib cheated by shamelessly grabbing Tibau's shorts to try to stop takedowns. Even with Khabib cheating, Tibau was still able to take him down.
Yes, let's use another example of a very young Nurmagomedov, who was 23 years old, in his first year in the UFC, going up against a 15-fight UFC veteran in Tibau. You don't care much about Nurmagomedov's pre-UFC run, considering he was "padding" his record, so basically you're removing that, and we're essentially seeing a 1-0 in MMA Nurmagomedov going up against a UFC veteran.
Khabib also cheated repeatedly on the scale. He missed weight against Trujillo. He no-showed the weigh-ins with the interim belt on the line at UFC 209 against Tony Ferguson because he was overweight.
That's completely irrelevant to the topic of grappling. Pulling out of a contest is not cheating. It's a bad look.
Khabib eventually would only fight in Abu Dhabi without an athletic commission, so he could do sham weigh-ins.
Oh, I didn't know the Barboza, Iaquinta and McGregor contests were held in Abu Dhabi.
But hey, at least you're consistent with low-IQ posts.