Media Khabib: ''GSP is a little bigger than me but I've better wrestling''

[DestinedAussie]

time stamp: 55:40

Can we end this ''Khabib was a big LW, natural WW nonsense''?

Do you guys think Khabib is lying about this, after his retirement and when we know they aren't going to fight already? Why Khabib would lie about this that we know they aren't going to fight and he has no desire to fight anymore?

I could agree, Khabib had trouble with cutting weight, like DC, that doesn't mean he is big, it means he is just a little fat, like DC was for 205.

Another thing is, look at Khabib's reach;

It's shorter than Featherweight Volkanovski.

Look at GSP's reach, it's gigantic reach compared to Khabib's reach.

Another evidence is that Khabib was never that big inside the octagon, he wasn't even a top biggest size LWs on his era;

They said Khabib was never one of the biggest LWs inside the octagon;
https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...s-last-fight-according-to-dan-hooker.4156993/
Lightweight
(2017) Drew Dober: 183 lbs
(2013) Gleison Tibau: 181 lbs
(2018) Paul Felder: 180 lbs
(2017) Davi Ramos: 179 lbs
(2019) Christos Giagos: 176.2 lbs
(2019) Dustin Poirier: 176 lbs
(2019) Drakkar Klose: 175.2 lbs
(2019) Khabib Nurmagomedov: 172.6 lbs
(2018) Conor McGregor: 171 lbs
(2017) Eddie Alvarez: 171 lbs
(2018) Alexander Hernandez: 170 lbs
(2019) Khama Worthy: 167.6 lbs
(2020) Justin Gaethje: 165 lbs
(2019) Devonte Smith: 163.8 lbs
(2018) BJ Penn: 163.5 lbs

He also spent half his career at the weight class above. Clearly struggled to make weight.

If that list is all all UFC LW's then his pretty high on the list.

 

[chardog]

Khabib is waiting for GSP to start using a cane before taking a fight, the guy is way past him prime already as it is.

 

[chardog]

khabib is definitely big as a LW, his head is big, and his bone structure is also massive..... his reach simply means he has a poor reach. From what I recall, Brock had huge reach.... and it didnt matter.

khabib is built like a mini mac truck

 

[Cranberry2.0]

GSP got TKOd by Serra but yet you call him a better striker than Khabib.

See how dumb it sounds to use fights from 10 years ago?

Tibau might be the strongest opponent Khabib fought, and Khabib struggled. I think that's an interesting observation

 

[balkanbomber85]

GSP is a better wrestler, a better fighter in general, better at weight cutting, has a better hairline and is also a much better human being!

 

[Dirty Frank]

Khabib desperately trying to stay relevant now that most fans have moved on and realized that he didnt do anywhere near enough to be in Top 5.

Keep telling yourself that, bud. Someday it might at last be true. Genie in a bottle and all that.

 

[Dirty Frank]

Clutching buddy. Of course Khabib has a short reach. Its why he was so effective at wrestling. Khabib was massive for a LW. Name someone bigger. The weights you posted mean nothing. Khabib never moved up as he knew his weight bully game would be easily nullified. Good fighter but GSP would have ragdolled him.

"Weight bully". There's the first, foolproof indicator that we're currently in the presence of that common and indefatigable species, the shertard.

 

[Bumhead]

Pretty delusional. Gets outwrestled by Tibau thinks he's a better wrestler than GSP

Now compare khabib on roids vs Tibau
He is clearly a better fighter since that time

 

[Dirty Frank]

Pretty much hypothetical at this point but he's probably the only one to have a legit claim to besting GSP's wrestling. Would have loved to see it but, alas.

 

[DoctorsStoppage]

BJPenn is the goat if you look at it that way.

 

[DoctorsStoppage]

Now we know what three times the size of me means.
It means 1 pound diff.

 

[aali14]

The list of wrestlers GSP managed to takedown:

Hughes, Koscheck, Hendricks, Fitch, Karo Parisyan, Trigg, Sherk

Khabib went 0-13 in takedowns against Tibau and has never fought any strong MMA wrestlers, GSP is the better wrestler

 

[DoctorsStoppage]

This list just makes 163 lbs BJPenn wins over 198lbs GSP and probably about the same as GSP lbs Hughes, that much more impressive.

 

[Johnny_Knuckles]

GSP couldn't convincingly beat johnny hendericks towards the end of his career, and now people expect him to come back years later and beat khabib? You've got to be having a laugh. Khabib also subs bisping

 

[abject]

"Weight bully". There's the first, foolproof indicator that we're currently in the presence of that common and indefatigable species, the shertard.

Dont you understand what it means. I get it. No comprehension degenerating into insults.

 

[chinarice]

GSP outgrappled far better grappling based fighters than Khabib ever has.

Khabib would be taking some seats on his ass in that fight and eat some jabs all night long.

If Khabibi thought he could have beaten GSP in his prime, he would have been fighting at 170 instead of getting hospitalized and pulling out of fights due to trying to make 155.

Who gives a shit about a fight in 2021? Beating GSP in 2021, damn near a decade removed from his prime means little to nothing. Prime for prime, GSP would have made you think Khabib was only a B level fighter.

 

[C0NCH3TO]

Khabib is the lw goat and possibly the most dominant fighter ever but prime Gsp would dominate Khabib. A few welters would beat Khabib as well.

 

[MCS]

Khabib's a UFC career LW, who fought few to no dominant wrestlers. He fought Tibau, who was basically a WW, but not a dominant wrestler, and struggled.

GSP, regardless of his size, fought WW's almost his whole UFC career. Outwrestled NCAA champ Koscheck. Picture what Kos would've done to Tibau. It's going against bigger men and dominating, also with wrestling.

But, Khabib is smaller than GSP. He's p4p a better wrestler. More dominant with it than GSP was with his, as GSP used gameplans depending on the opponent, not the same plan every time. And Khabib's one dominant area was enough to never be close to losing in 29 fights...aside.

 

[Grappler111]

Interesting fight. GSP wrestling base is freestyle wrestling, the same of Khabib.

 

[Smegma-Head]

Khabib bless
GSP bless
GSP>Khabib