After beating Conor NSAC suspended him in order to flex/bully a guy who didn't bow to their bullshit.
After beating Dustin there was a global pandemic.
Neither was Khabib's fault. The "wasn't active as champ" line is misleading as hell.
I stand corrected, he wasn’t only an inactive champion, but also during the entirety of his career as a fighter...
Okay I’ll add some context.
Khabib by the numbers... “the good, the bad, the ugly”
UFC Fights by year
2012- Shalorus/Tibau
(2x)
2013- Tavares/Trujillo/Healy
(3x) ***most active calendar year***
2014- Dos Anjos/
Donald Cerrone **withdrawal** (1x)
2015- Donald Cerrone
**withdrawal**/Tony Ferguson
**withdrawal** (0)
2016- Horcher/Johnson (
2x)
2017- Barboza/Tony Ferguson
**withdrawal** (1x)
2018- Iaquinta
*won vacant UFC LW title*/McGregor *LW title Def*
(2x)
2019- Poirier (Interim)
*LW title unification* (1x)
2020- Tony Ferguson
**withdrawal** (Interim)-Gaethje
*LW title unification* (1x)
Total UFC Fights (13)
Years in the UFC Promotion (9.5)
Title Fights (4)
Titles Defended (3)
Title Reign (2.5 years/30 months)
Interim Titles created during title reign (2)
Top 5 wins (3)
Opponents Record (UFC only) 299-128-7
UFC wins: 7x finish (2x KO/TKO-5x Sub) 6x UD
Fight Withdrawals (5)
Missed weight cuts (2) (Trujillo/Ferguson)
Dubious weigh in results (2) Gaethje/Poirier
Point is notice the amount of italics and asterisks that appears during his years fighting in the UFC, his career has been marred with pull outs, botched or questionable weight cuts, his title defenses turning into interim title unification bouts, ect, ect... Khabib has had a great career, but I don’t think it’s a stretch when I say he was an inactive champ or fighter, it’s there through out his entire career without NSAC suspensions or C19.
