Khabib in a Ring under Pride rules

[OrigFan255]

The ring to Khabib would be the same as the green stuff was to this guy.

 

[TheBrownRanger]

Khabib with knees to grounded opponent beats any PRIDE Lightweight

 

[Lee_]

Khabib would have to pray he never fought Saku. They are probably close to the same natural weight. Saku fought way bigger guys his whole career.

Prime Saku toys with Khabib, and submits him.

 

[mmafan559]

what if he fought in space
could he dethrone the spider as the space champion?

 

[dildos]

He would knee peoples heads in to death.

 

[Deleted member 513083]

While I think Knees on the ground would heavily benefit him I think the real Thing to watch out for with him is headbutts.
If he was allowed Headbutts he would actually KO people almost every fight.

 

[Haliacmon]

he´s so good he´d use the ring to his advantage, plus stomps, knees to downed opponent and soccer kicks (he´s Ronaldo´s fan) he would be even more dangerous

 

[PulsingJones]

But... Khabib fought the majority of his career in a ring.

 

[The ScorpioN]

Tough to say but he won't be able to crotch sniff as much with knees on the group and not having the cage to help him.

 

[mjfan23]

Minowaman drop kicks him to death

 

[Headkicktoleg]

Hard to say. The style he developed of chain wrestling against the cage and wrapping the legs would be almost completely useless. He would have to have develop a much more top control focused game.

 

[Dorkman]

Stomps and soccer kicks are more for strikers like the Chute Boxe guys (or lunatics like Saku). Hard to do either if your game is top control. Knees to the head on the ground, on the other hand, favor wrestlers (like Coleman). If Khabib were allowed to knee a downed opponent....

Yep, khabib working side control, or north south with knees available could bepretty devastating. given how positionally dominant he is i don't imagine he would struggling getting to either.

 

[Draxton]

YEAH! Khabib would have never hypothetically succeeded in an organization that only lasted 10 years and failed before he even debuted!!

He would have totally failed under a specific rule set that he currently doesn’t train for. This just sounds dumb. If Khabib was training to fight in pride rules in n a pride ring then his strategy and style would be complete the different than fighting in a cage. He would still be mauling and molesting fools all the same, he’d just be getting them to the ground in a different way.

 

[HHJ]

If he had fought a majority of his career in a ring,he would have adapted his style for it,and fought differently.

Taking guys who pattern their style in their cage and saying "well this wont work in a ring"

Well,who cares? they arent fighting in a ring.

 

[tripleo]

Khabib would have to pray he never fought Saku. They are probably close to the same natural weight. Saku fought way bigger guys his whole career.

Prime Saku toys with Khabib, and submits him.

saku would beat any lw today

 

[Maori]

TS has shown himself to be a noob

 

[Noraaq]

Khabib would be just as dominant in a ring. He’s a winner

 

[Kha'bless]

Khabib in Space without a helmet..

 

[notafighter86]

People say takedowns would have been harder to get without the cage - but how often do fighters use the cage to wall walk their way back to the feet - now take that away from his opponents.

 

[bambammccoy]

Seems he was fine without the cage earlier in his career. Don't buy into the pundit bullshit. Chael started this cage myth and everyone ran with it.

Whats his best win in a ring again? How long ago was that?

Chael didn't start any myth. His coaches and teammates are open about how he learned how to cage work at AKA and wasn't very comfortable with it and limited himself as a fighter. See Khabib vs Tibau, thats a Khabib who is doing alot of cage work but doesn't know how or really what he's doing on the cage so he struggled badly.

His entire game changed when he learned to use the fence and there is definitely evidence suggesting he does worse in a bjj tourny style fighting area where there us no fence.