Usually fighters don’t quit regardless of who’s in their way, seems like BS to me the guy was right there literally one fight from a title shot, I wonder if he will stay retired
It's incredible that he could ever perform that good in such a stadium with thousands of people watching him while being so shy. Even speaking infront of an younger audience is ovicously very hard for him. He is so shy.
karelin spent a lot of time in the gym, but not sitting around thinking. fighters become better and better the more they learn from other disciplines, they do not struggle like karelin seems to think.
It's because ufc don't want ufc get dominated by russian instead of american themselves. Imagine there always russian in almost every division that fight much better than most of the ufc favorite fighter. Zabit, Islam, Magomed, Khamzat, Khabib. They came to ufc and smashed all american best fighter🫶
The thing is which clown 🤡 would fight Zabit in his weight division … they would be humbled and humiliated by him … Zabit is a complete fighter and machine … anyone fighting him would end their career or money making opportunities
Basically he was too good and no one wanted to fight him all the while he was battling injuries and sickness. Everything that kept him out of the cage felt like god was trying to tell him something maybe
That's what they do to muslim fighters they duck them and make it harder for them to fight top rank fighters and fighting career isn't that long when you don't give a man fight for two years its dirty, he would've been a champ if they hadn't played their dirty games.
As someone who has been wrestling since 1984, I refuse to utter anything but glowing words for Karelin. Gives me goosebumps just seeing him in an interview as it conjures up flashes of matches and his greatness. I mean, a 887-2 record! He's like a superhero. 100-2 record would be like "Whoa!" 200-2? 300-2? Would be mind-blowing. I don't even know what you call 887-2. It's like a cosmic joke. However, I will say that what he is saying isn't 100% true; Fedor and Khabib both practiced Sambo, but they also trained Freestyle, Greco, Judo, and BJJ so it's impossible to say which style a specific technique they used in MMA came from. More importantly, they "MMAified" their grappling and wrestling. They learned to wrestle when someone is striking and strike when someone is wrestling, so technically what made them great in MMA was their ability to MMA wrestle. It's a skillset that is unique to MMA. The idea of which style is superior was talk from the 90s and outdated. MMA is MMA.
I'd say sambo is their basis. If you want fight like Fedor & Khabib, you have to start with sambo. Honestly, I didn't see many moves by them that were restricted in sambo. It was kinda honest opinion by Karelin
Between Khabib, Islam, Umar and Usman they have 1 loss 4 Fighters. That is incredible !!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Nurmagomedov family must be the greatest MMA family to have ever existed
