How come Khabib never got finished by average fighters like Matt Serra in his prime?

Chambo said:
Nice join date.
This troll thread has served you well - hopefully you got what you were looking for and can now crawl back under wherever you came from
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Troll thread? Wouldn't that mean it wasn't true?

Do you know how hard it is to go 29 fights and be damn near faultless.

Show some respect.
 
Beherit said:
khabib ducked the dan ige's of the world ?
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Dan Ige has actually finished a fight via strikes. GSP was Serra's first TKO despite having "heavy hands" according to Sherdog
 
hbombfromhell said:
Troll thread? Wouldn't that mean it wasn't true?

Do you know how hard it is to go 29 fights and be damn near faultless.

Show some respect.
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georges was facing guys like karo in his 6th fight. you know how hard it is to be faultless facing that level of competition for that long?

they were both amazing.
 
hbombfromhell said:
Is it because his chin is better or just a better fighter?

This would never happen to Khabib.

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It’s because Khabib took very few risks. He fought smart and tried to get the fight to the ground whenever he could. If Khabib would fight without wrestling he would take more damage and that’s why he doesn’t do that until his opponent is tired. He’s a smart fighter and that’s why he’s undefeated. Would he be undefeated at WW against big strong wrestlers? We will never know.
 
kflo said:
georges was facing guys like karo in his 6th fight. you know how hard it is to be faultless facing that level of competition for that long?

they were both amazing.
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No doubt. GSP was amazing. I believe Khabib is better and more exciting but we're all entitled to our opinions.
 
Genisys said:
It’s because Khabib took very few risks. He fought smart and tried to get the fight to the ground whenever he could. If Khabib would fight without wrestling he would take more damage and that’s why he doesn’t do that until his opponent is tired. He’s a smart fighter and that’s why he’s undefeated. Would he be undefeated at WW against big strong wrestlers? We will never know.
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I imagine if Khabib carried around as much size and muscle as GSP in his prime he'd be a nightmare at WW. He's better than guys like Colby and Usman everywhere.
 
Khabib also has an iron chin, which has certainly helped even though he hasn't gotten hit much.
 
hbombfromhell said:
And he tapped to strikes to Matt Serra. What's your point?
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I know you are being a Troll but here goes.
This tapping to strikes = cowardly, weak etc is truly laughable. No one claims tapping to a RNC is cowardly. When you know you are beat you tap.

Why do most fighters not have a submission to strikes? Frank Mir is one who has derided it. Funny thing is that aside from him tapping to strikes against Jay Alva he gets his lights shut off. Hard to tap when you are out cold.

I just rewatched it and from the first shot that rocked GSP he was hit about 40 times. And he was still conscious. Show me a fight where a fighter gets hit with 40 shots, most of them power shots and is still conscious?

Matt Serra is also not a Can. He was only finished twice in his career. Once on a flukey last second spinning backfist in a fight he was dominating and by GSP in their rematch.

As mentioned GSP was fighting in the UFC by his 6th pro fight. That's 5 fights in the minor leagues and 2 of those were against fighters who competed in the UFC. He was in his first title fight in his 8th pro fight. By his 16th Pro fight he had faced 8 top 10 fighters and the then consensus GOAT WW twice beating him to win the UFC title. he had been in 3 title fights at that point.

Khabib had a 16-0 record in Russia against fighters nobody has ever heard from before getting to the UFC. Once in the UFC he has 13 fights. Of the first 7 UFC fights he faced one top 10 fighter in RDA and he lost one to Gleison Tibau (Matt Serra is > Tibau).
His last 6 were against increasingly better competition and his last 4 were UFC title fights.

GSP had 3 title fights in his first 16 Pro fights. Khabib has 4 in his whole career.
GSP had another 12 UFC title fights in a row which he won consecutively. The last one at the higher weight class.

They are both great fighters and it would be an interesting fight. I would like it at 165 and either make the 165 & 175 divisions. If just a "Superfight" at 165 they can just make a BMF type of one off belt.
 
Why does Khabib have 15 wins against opponents that don't have a wikipedia page yet GSP was fighting world class opponents since his 5th pro fight? (Pete Spratt, ranked 4th WW)
 
So which is it did gsp tal to strikes or got Ko'd?
 
It's because he fought hand-picked opponents once a year.
 
QcChopper said:
Why does Khabib has 15 wins against opponents that don't have a wikipedia page yet GSP was fighting world class opponents since his 5th pro fight? (Pete Spratt, ranked 4th WW)
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Probably because he was born in Dagestan. He's still a better, more dominant and skilled fighter than GSP, great as GSP was.
 
Greyscale said:
It's because he fought hand-picked opponents once a year.
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Yeah, and his last fight was against the guy who was supposedly put on this earth to beat Khabib stylistically and Khabib ate him, months after the death of his father who he had all the pressure of trying to honor during the fight.

"Hand picked"
 
hbombfromhell said:
Khabib just ate Poirier, Gaethje and Conor looking the best he has in his entire career.

GSP got handled by Hendricks, gifted a decision and retired.

This makes no sense at all.
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Conor, Dustin and Justin are strikers with low level ground game and even suspect TDD. He even fought Conor after he went boxing for 2 years :D

MJ and Barboza never did anything after Khabib. His only elite like victory is RDA who has # of shit cuts at 155 that affect his performance :D
 
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Serra was an average fighter? Dude won a world championship. He knocked out GSP. The average fighter cant get a shot at a title.
 
hbombfromhell said:
Probably because he was born in Dagestan. He's still a better, more dominant and skilled fighter than GSP, great as GSP was.
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Born in Dagestan: fact.
Better, more skilled and more dominant: opinion.

GSP has beaten a lot more top 10 and top 5 opponents and has quite a few more title defenses: fact.
 
It does hurt GSP losing at his peak to a lower level opponent, but Khabib didn’t have as a distinguished career.

So does that balance things out? I don’t know.
 
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