Khabibs padded record

[The Natural Born Runner]

I totally agree with the premise that Khabib has a padded record.

TS took us up to 16 of his fights. I would say that almost none of them impress me or should even truly be counted. I would even say that Shalorus, Tavares and Trujillo are poor fighters also, although they are made to look like world-beaters when you compare them to his first 16 opponents.

With all that said, Tibau, Healy, dos Anjos, Johnson, Barboza and Iaquinta are good fighters. I would say he has beaten one elite name and that is dos Anjos, but even he was not yet in his true prime and was somewhat of a hot and cold top 15 fringe talent at the time. I've always respected Barboza's striking but I think he's also a little overrated as a fighter, one level below elite even on his best day.

Conor has beaten the better fighters, but not by much. Khabib didn't spend 95% of his career towering over opponents either, fighting much smaller guys to get an advantage over his opponents. Khabib has been known to have weight cutting issues, that much is true, but I think that is down to poor preparation - I don't think Khabib is huge comparing to his Lightweight opponents, he would actually look a little small at Welterweight in my opinion.

 

[mmahorse]

khabib striking has outstanding quality, conor really going to have watch this guy,

 

[KootenayKid]

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I don't know if it was because I just woke up or the slow build of reading this thread until this post, but it made me burst out laughing. Roflcopter.

 

[kalabula]

Khabib is a damn good fighter. Should be pretty obvious by his UFC performances.

 

[smart.feller]

umm whos Ali Bagov fighting...??? Tito Couture Shogun Coleman were fighting top guys in the world, not scrubs on some underground russian promotion, big difference buddy

UFC vet Leandro Silva, Bellator vet Bubba Jenkins, and a few other notables. I’m not saying the dude faced top level competition, wha I’m saying is that to call 23 wins compared to 10 losses lackluster is a mischaracterization, even if that was acquired on the regional circuit.

 

[The XL]

He has a bit of a padded record, but his dominate wins over Barboza and RDA, who was/is top 3 at least in both LW and WW prove he's legit. There is also something to be said about beating who is in front of you, as Conor has losses to a Artemij Sitenkov, a can who fights in a lower weight class, Joe Duffey, who is a journeyman, and Nate Diaz, who is a fringe contender.

 

[Mixedfights]

khabib striking has outstanding quality, conor really going to have watch this guy,

Lol...that spin backfist. The real estate agent was already 10 ft away.

 

[ANIM4L]

...and the level of competition in Russia is miles above Ireland.

 

[Candy Routure]

Fight 26 times in your life and not lose.. Tell us how easy it was..

 

[Wicked_1]

The guys in khabibs early career are better fighters than the irish bumbs conor fought. U act like he should have been top guys in russia.. guess what.. The bigger orgs took all the top guys just like they took khabib when he was on the rise. Its not like guys are awsome figters in small venues like he or any other fighter were fighting in. U also fail to mention all the sambo and combat grappling he was doing at the same time. No fighter from europe or the vicinity have top guys to face every fight. For all u know there were 20 guys that turned down fights w him. Do the same leg work on conor and his opposition... See what u find. Unkess u are in brazil Usa or japan u just arent gonna have as many top guys to face period. Some of the guys u mention and say how terrible they are... Are actually very good in combat sambo etc which is where they ascend from. The first 14 fights for conor.. U cant even find info really about the guys and he lost 2 of them..

 

[Wicked_1]

Artemij Sitenkov... 15-16 9th fight .4-5 at the time.
Gary Morris 8-10..was his first fight
Mo Taylor. 0-1..only fight was conor
Stephen Bailey 0-2 2nd fight was conor
Connor Dillon.. 5-8 4th fight was conor.
I wont keep wasting my time on this but u can see how it goes for all young fighters.

 

[ChucksGlassJaw]

Pretty funny how Conor fanboys can't decide whether they want to declare Khabib a monster and the best possible win or an overrated bum who has not done anything or fought anyone yet.

These are mutually exclusive, ya know. You can be both a great fighter and have a padded record.

 

[fractal]

Holy wall of Mt. Everest text batman

No way am I reading all dat

It's actually interesting and shouldn't take more than 5 mins.

 

[Arm Barbarian]

It's actually interesting and shouldn't take more than 5 mins.

He reformatted it. It was originally one giant, endless paragraph.

 

[fractal]

He reformatted it. It was originally one giant, endless paragraph.

Ohk didn't know. Well give it a read if you haven't yet.

 

[Idonotbelieveit]

cant deny his skill though
Fights show

 

[Arm Barbarian]

Ohk didn't know. Well give it a read if you haven't yet.

Will do. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Deleted member 510653]

A bunch of wins over random Dagestani nobodies and the only wins I can think of worth noting on his 26 fight win streak are Barbosa and Michael Johnson

Tell you what guys, if a fighter wants to start off, he should fight in Dagestan. Those guys Khabib fought were probably picked up somewhere in the mountains and the fights took place in some goat pasture or something.. Just insane.

 

[tehJameson]

His best win is Barboza. That should tell you all you need to know.

Conor will starch him.

 

[TheLastEmperorReurns]

Khabib crushes cans.

Conor loses to them.