Khabib and Islam both have shit striking but decent wrestling.
Topuria has both elite wrestling and striking.
I got to respectfully disagree, or we can agree to disagree.
IMO Khabib had slightly above average striking (And I'm talking about purely striking, without factoring in the fear factor of his elite grappling which indirectly made his striking more advantageous, ala the KD punch that he landed on conor). Most times, he just didn't need to go to plan B, C, D, E etc. because his plan A always worked. Josh Thomson among a few others, have mentioned that we just didn't ever need to see Khabib show more facets of his game. Interestingly though, he seemed to be getting more comfortable in his striking (like how Kamaru's striking kinda came into its own, around the Jorge-2 fight and the Burns fight) in the Gaethje fight, where I recall stabbing front kicks to the body of Gaethje. So I don't agree that he has "shit striking"
IMO Islam has elite striking. I wasn't convinced about his striking initially, I admit. But somewhere during the Moises/Bobby/Hooker stretch of fights, what I saw during the limited standup exchanges told me that Islam can stand and trade intelligently while being defensively sound. His striking is very clean and relies on the basics to get things done. To top it off (no pun intended as this topic is related to TOPuria), his head kick KO of Volk makes the notion of him having "shit striking" not make sense. He is very deadly.
You also said Khabib and Islam have decent wrestling while Topuria has elite wrestling. I disagree too and I hope you agree that all three have ELITE wrestling. If Topuria has elite wrestling and Khabib and Islam are just decent; doesn't make sense. Topuria has not needed to show too much of his wrestling in his last few fights (unlike in his earlier fights), and I still give him his elite wrestling compliment.
As a side note, I actually really hoped Topuria would win Volk (which I kinda regretted and felt bad after good guy Volk suffered a career-altering KO), but yea, just saying, I'm a Topuria guy too.
But I had to defend the Bib and Islam when I read that they are poor man's version/s of Topuria. Like, come on, this thread was trying to focus on Islam and Khabib and suddenly Topuria is thrown in the mix by you to bury these two; I ain't having any of that
I mean, we could just agree that all three are/were the elite of the elite in all facets of the game (but feel free to say that Khabib was not elite in striking).