Remember when Khabib fans judged Conor on title defenses?

[D 1 Wrestler]

Khabib had a longer road to the title so you are comparing apples to oranges.

You will forever be haunted, Khabib will always be brought up in the GOAT discussions.

Yea because he got injured and couldn't make weight unlike jones. How is that Jon's fault lol?

 

[broke as hell]

Yea because he got injured and couldn't make weight unlike jones. How is that Jon's fault lol?

That's normal for fighters who are clean. Steroids help you recover like wolverine and fight more often.

Even more proof Khabib is clean and Jones is not. I like my GOATs clean don't know about you.

 

[storeybuckle]

Now they say Jon Jones' incredible record of defending his title is irrelevant and that Khabib is GOAT.
Well, if title defenses no longer matter then Conor's victories over Aldo, Max, Dustin & Chad cement his status as FW GOAT.

I don’t really like talking about GOAt status because the sport is still so very young.

Plus Khabib and Jones are in two totally different weight classes. It’s apples and oranges!

It’s fun to talk about but is strictly hypothetical. Just a bunch of people bantering back-and-forth discrediting fighter’s accomplishments with no definitive outcome.

 

[markg171]

Conor never defended nor intended to defend his belts

It's worth remembering that Conor was only stripped of his FW belt because Cormier hid his injury against Rumble to the last minute and so the UFC was stuck promoting Holloway/Pettis to main event of a PPV. Which required it to be a title fight, yet they already had an interim champ in Jose Aldo. They obviously couldn't have an interim interim champ so it was either strip Conor or strip Aldo.

Conor had the LW belt to fall back on, and Aldo was the recent longtime FW champ anyways so stripping Conor was the lesser of two evils. But it was only done because Cormier hid his injury so long. Otherwise they'd have had more options like moving the event back, having Conor/Aldo defend against Holloway/Pettis (or unify their belts), get a new main event, etc.

We have no idea if Conor ever actually was going to defend against Aldo. That got taken out of his hands when he got stripped to avoid the incredibly bad look of having an interim interim champ.

 

[Satan's Daddy.]

It's worth remembering that Conor was only stripped of his FW belt because Cormier hid his injury against Rumble to the last minute and so the UFC was stuck promoting Holloway/Pettis to main event of a PPV. Which required it to be a title fight, yet they already had an interim champ in Jose Aldo. They obviously couldn't have an interim interim champ so it was either strip Conor or strip Aldo.

Conor had the LW belt to fall back on, and Aldo was the recent longtime FW champ anyways so stripping Conor was the lesser of two evils. But it was only done because Cormier hid his injury so long. Otherwise they'd have had more options like moving the event back, having Conor/Aldo defend against Holloway/Pettis (or unify their belts), get a new main event, etc.

We have no idea if Conor ever actually was going to defend against Aldo. That got taken out of his hands when he got stripped to avoid the incredibly bad look of having an interim interim champ.

Conor doesnt stay true to his words,
A true mma hardcore knew when he was drunk at the press conference bragging about defending his belts, we knew his ego wouldnt want to lose the belt to a superior athlete.

 

[BiC Fist]

Now they say Jon Jones' incredible record of defending his title is irrelevant and that Khabib is GOAT.
Well, if title defenses no longer matter then Conor's victories over Aldo, Max, Dustin & Chad cement his status as FW GOAT.

Conor has 0 titlr defenses
Jones is a blatant PED abuser
Khabib is above them in P4P rankings
Fedor is the GOAT, hands down
STFU