Zabit Magomedsharipov

[Grapplefest]

Super exciting style. Homie comes to bang.

Quickly becoming one of my favorite fighters.

Interesting how he's mainly throwing left hooks in that exchange, I feel like if his right hand wasn't broken he would've finished the fight.

 

[MassDebater]

I liked his style but find it hard to root for a guy with that kind of size advantage.

 

[DrunkMonkMeth]

Just watched him for the first time. I think he could be goat in the future no doubt. Seems to have a pretty well rounded game overall good striking kicks and grappling. But I guess we shall see anyways. What do you guys think about him?

undecided. saw holes in his game.. weakness in his cardio. stylistic match up that will cause him issues. champions fight 5 round fights more often than finish them.. i just dont see that from him at this point.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

this, his grappling looked AMAZING though in his 2nd fight in the UFC and he did a lot of cool shit during this fight too. He has a really awesome blend of good boxing both offensively and defensively, good kicks (both the more effective low kicks and the flashy shit), and so far, he's had really good offensive grappling. He looked good defensively in the 1 spot during this past fight where he was pressed up against the cage, but, it really is very different with a high level wrestler like Mirsad.

But, I said it in another thread, if he continues to just work really hard on improving, I think he can definitely become one of the best fighters the sport has seen. He's delivered so far, just needs to stick to it and he has a bright future. Think he's at an awesome camp too that has a ton of talent there + great coaching, so the sky's the limit for him imo.

Yup, totally agree. I can see him going to the top, I really think they should book him against Bektic next, thats a interesting fight, I want to see it.

Yeah he is at a great camp and he has Edgar to train with everyday, which is a huge thing. And because they are both the same weight I reckon they train a lot together. FW is such a good division these days, its one of the better divisions, so much talent. Not now obviously but in the future I want to see him fight Stephens, I don't know why but I just have a feeling that fight would be EPIC, I kept thinking that during yesterdays fight that Zabit vs Stephens in the future would be such a epic and fun fight.

 

[Pakman]

Yup, totally agree. I can see him going to the top, I really think they should book him against Bektic next, thats a interesting fight, I want to see it.

Yeah he is at a great camp and he has Edgar to train with everyday, which is a huge thing. And because they are both the same weight I reckon they train a lot together. FW is such a good division these days, its one of the better divisions, so much talent. Not now obviously but in the future I want to see him fight Stephens, I don't know why but I just have a feeling that fight would be EPIC, I kept thinking that during yesterdays fight that Zabit vs Stephens in the future would be such a epic and fun fight.

honestly I think him vs anyone further up would be good. Moicano looked good yesterday, I think that would be interesting since he has the ability to use a lot of kicks himself. I think Myles Jury is an awesome banger as well. I think him vs Mirsad is great, him vs Elkins would be good imo too. He called out Yair, I think that has amazing potential but would love to see both of them somehow move up (I'm a big fan of Yair too despite him getting torched by Frankie, think ultimately it will make him much better) and not fight for a while. And then obviously the guys further up, the Cub's, the Stephens, Ortega, Max. All fights that have amazing potential I think, because he is a fighter who will belong in that upper echelon of fighters soon (if not already skill-wise)

145 is insanely stacked and definitely one of the best divisions in the UFC. 155 and lower honestly are all really damn good. The others are really top heavy and then big dropoffs.