Slight misunderstanding, I’m saying learning how to truly strike, how to really threaten with strikes in the only real way to aid getting a fight to the ground.
Khabib has rudimentary striking in my opinion, but his basics, his strategy of covering up super tight upstairs and accepting he may eat a few glancing punches and low roundhouses works for him since his opponents have to worry about getting socked (reasonably hard) in the face or taken down.
All I meant was that learning to threaten with meaningful strikes on the feet forces the opponent to worry about the dual threat of striking and grappling.
Grapplers sometimes think they only need to learn striking enough to recognize threats or use strikes to simply MASK entries.
With Khabib, his punches have a little weight on them so his opponents have to pay them some respect.