Islam Makhachev - A MATTER OF DESTINY (DOC) 

“Imagine fighting a khabib… that’s being coached by another KHABEEEEB” lol with that emphasis

Yeah but the second khabib has been knocked out cold and lost to volk sooooo. There will only be on king

​@@hugeweewoo7713lost to volkov 😂😂😂 imagine man being so dominant that a close fight is considered as a loss

​@@hugeweewoo7713 What do you think about their second fight?

guessing he wont be answering for a long time..that salt is so strong.@@mazymetric8267

Dayum

absolutely beautiful story.

Well said sir

Yep. And somewhere in there, as Mixed Molly stated, Abdulmanap may have trained the two best fighters of all time, and these weren’t world class athletes who walked through the door, they were his son and a neighbor. This is utterly mind boggling. Not to mention that when you add the combined record of Khabib, Islam, Umar and Usman, you get 83-1.. only 1 single loss!!!! 3 world champions and the 4rth on the way. Those other two are Abdulmanap’s GODDAMN nephews!!!! This is absolutely absurd. The greatest sports story in the history of sports, I always say

They really should make this into a film

Yeah, many fighters casually gives out prediction for betting advice, but when Khabib gives his prediction its regarded as Arrogance, Disrespect & Trash talk. That really show much weight his words are.

The word you're looking for is resolve, Khabib has a stone cold steel resolve about him and speaks with such matter of fact confidence that it is unnerving for opponents.

i think dc said when interviewed islam vs oliveira, "i think u guys are not disrepect, i think u guys said as a matter of fact"

All right but they don't talk like that to get in they're opponents head, they don't play that game.

It’s because they all doped as children it’s kind of unfair that in Russia. The government and usada help athletes not get caught and that’s why we never see fighters out of Russia getting popped for roids. Vs in America they are seeking to catch people taking steroids. Without steroids Americans absolutely crush the Russians #facts

Alhamdulillah!

What people do not seem to understand when Khabib refers too ''take the opponent to deep waters'' is that him (and now Makhachev) have a style in which they work and hit the adversary body in such a way, that it prevents him to breath properly. That's why after first and second round, they look terribly exhausted.

Ya sure buddy

Khabib, sure. Not Islam though

any mention of his connections to the truly vile Chechen Warlord Ramzan Kadyrov

Very well written!! I had similar thoughts but didn’t bother writing it out as eloquently: If this was a movie, no one would believe it. The story is already written, it’s just so incredible. -An ex-military man named AbdulManap raises a village of children as tough fighters to protect them from war-torn environment in harsh mountains -He selflessly trains the children with equal amounts of discipline and love. Taking care of their every needs, becoming more than a coach. He becomes their guardian and their family. -He sees his son (Khabib) as the toughest of them (he even wrestled a bear at the age of 8) and another younger fighter (Islam) as the most talented. -Khabib joins the UFC and eventually becomes undefeated champion in biggest stage after going through so much adversity. Islam is right beside Khabib helping him and supporting him in his journey. -The coach passes away but not after cornering his son during his first title defense. -AbdulManap's widowed wife tells his son to stop fighting. It pains her heart to watch her son go fight without her husband. -Khabib promises his mother he’ll retire from the sport he loves so much. Not getting the 30th win, but at 29-0. It’s the toughest decision he makes but after he gives his word he abides by it even after getting offers for tens of millions of dollars. -Khabib sees the belt change hands, the belt he never lost, the belt his father envisioned for the younger teammate, Islam. He sees the hope of Dagestan slowly disappear since they no longer had a champion. -He finally understands his fathers grand mission. It wasn’t just for Khabib, or even Islam. It was for the children of Dagestan to have hope. It was for the generation of innocent children without a clear path to success. -Khabib picks up where his father left. He becomes a full time coach and promoter. -He vows to fulfill fathers plan to first bring the belt back to Dagestan, through Islam. It's his time to help Islam like Islam helped him. -Khabib fulfills that dream when Islam recaptures the belt that was never taken from Dagestan. Khabib and Islam both continue to serve their people, just like Khabib said in his Hall of Fame speech. Live with a higher purpose and give back to others. The movie ends, but the journey continues.

any mention of his connections to the truly vile Chechen Warlord Ramzan Kadyrov

amen

Yep, Khabib didn't want to take the torch from his father, but he did it for his brothers.

Thank you for sharing my comment. I started reading it and was thinking “This person thinks EXACTLY like me!” within the first two sentences. Then I remembered. 😂😂😂 Anyhow, I consider it a sincere compliment and I am humbled 🙏🏼

And Firas is in the 5 greatest mind's ever in combat sports.

I do think there's a bit of post-humous respect going into that statement. Abdulmanap was an excellent Sambo and Wrestling coach with an eye for conditioning, but he hasn't exactly produced well rounded MMA fighters like Zahabi. I mean Khabib and Islam have excellent grappling, but they are awful striker's in comparison to many fighters (Islam is significantly better than Khabib in this regard though), and don't have a well rounded gameplan. The Dagestani style excels at pressuring guys who aren't on the same level wrestling wise (and who are often physically smaller given the size advantage Khabib had for example), but it lacks the variety of other gameplans. That's going to work well until someone comes along who has the takedown defence to deal with it while also being a well rounded fighter regarding striking. Khabib took a significant amount of damage walking through punches and relying on his chin, if guy's like Gaetjhe had been less afraid of the takedown and could hold their own sitting down on their punches could have been deadly (Gaetjhe was basically not commiting to many strikes due to the takedown threat and still hit harder than anyone Khabib had ever fought by his own volition). Obviously Islam was also KOed earlier in his career because he doesn't have the same chin as Khabib, which forced him to adopt a far more defensive gameplan (they both excel at Sambo style wrestling but have very different approaches in regards to tempo). If they don't adapt that gameplan, and produce more fighters like Zabit, who was fairly well rounded with great striking, I don't think it's going to stay so dominant as the sport evolves, which it is doing constantly. Khabib never really fought a great grappler with striking skills, and while Islam has, the most well rounded guy he's fought was Charles', who basically seemed like he didn't take the fight seriously, refused to set anything up (the reason he got tagged was he tried the same all out offence he used in his last few fights but didn't even set-up his combo's in the same way, plus he couldn't rely on Islam being afraid of his ground game, it was a dumb gameplan to say the least), and didn't seem to have watched Islam's style at all (very defensive with a focus on overhand counters leading into a submission). It'll be interesting to see what happens when Islam fights an Oliveria who is aware of those holes in his gameplan, Volkanovski who is just one of the most well rounded, adaptable, and skilled fighters alive currently, or one of the up and coming lightweights. We have gym's that have produced multiple well rounded champion's and coaches who have demonstrated the ability to teach every aspect of MMA at a high level.

@I, CATO SICARIUS I'm willing to bet Abdulmanap school of fighters W/L ratio is much higher than tristar. The goal is to win if you can do it with a plan that's not 'well rounded' more power to you 👍

@@bossmanali I mean, not really. It's just a case of hyperspecialization, and we've seen historically this doesn't work in the long-run. It's working really well in a division dominated by striker's with few legitimate grappling threat's, but it wouldn't work anywhere near as well in Welterweight, say, in the top ranks where everyone is an elite wrestler. As we saw with Chimaev who also has that high pace wrestling style similar to the Dagestani's, and was lauded as the "next Khabib" by some, but ran into a wall with Burn's who can hold his own in wrestling at a high level despite Chimaev still being fairly significantly larger than him. BJJ had the same run in early UFC when nobody knew how to deal with submission grappling, but I wouldn't call any of the Gracie coaches "the greatest MMA coach ever" despite their fighters having overwhelming success. Also the W/L ratio of the Dagestani fighters is incredibly skewed, both Khabib and Islam fought very few legitimately credible threats, and spent most of their time beating entirely unknown fighters. I'll take a fighter with one or two losses who consistently fought the highest competition, potentially in multiple weightclasses, and did so convincingly than someone who bulldozed a bunch of can's followed by one or two actual challenges, which for Khabib was several striking specialist's in a row. That's not like Jon Jones beating literally everyone no matter the style, it's a specialist running through several stylistically favourable matchups. You can also see from those fights that had opponents like Gaetjhe themselves been more well rounded and polished, that same style would have had difficulty finding purchase (e.g. Khabib walking through shots against someone not constantly backpedaling from the takedown threat is a very bad idea). If anything Islam's style is far superior to Khabib's, but doesn't have the same dominance factor, so people rate him lower despite Islam is likely going to take far less damage and risk in his fights. So win to loss also isn't indicative of much at all unless it's only for high-level competition. Oliveria has a worse win/loss ratio than the upper ranks of lightweight that he ran through going on an 11 fight win streak. Usually when someone has an insane win rate, like 20/0, it's because they've been fed can's like professional boxer's are given to pad the record. When there's only like 5-6 legitimate threat's in many divisions, that means nothing. The majority of success the Dagestani style has seen is at lightweight, a division dominated by striker's where even wrestler's refuse to wrestle. Khabib was also HUGE for the division, like he's more in line with Usman's frame than he is Poirier or McGregor, who are both natural lightweights. That has a HUGE impact on performance for wrestler's because any size advantage conveys a massive wrestling advantage relative to their opponent. Makachev also has a similar build, so the same points can be made there as well, though his style is far more submission and counter reliant with a focus on defense than Khabib's high-pace pressure from the get-go. The test for the Dagestani style is whether it can remain relevant five years from now, and whether any Dagestani fighter can take it into their natural weightclass and succeed.

@@AveSicarius you're so wrong on so many things. Great comment otherwise

It's up there for sure, #1 gotta be Patrick gavia imo

Top 5 No1 goes to anatomy of fighter

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YEEESSSS!! One of for sure!

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I love both Charles and Islam. They both have such inspiring stories, but they are not the main character in this story.. You'd even be wrong to think that Khabib is the main protagonist. The main character in this legendary story was AbdulManap. Its a story of a man who uplifted his entire nation, by taking a dozen boys under his wing. What a legacy!

any mention of his connections to the truly vile Chechen Warlord Ramzan Kadyrov

Charles & Islam is a good role model in MMA. Some people were saying that Islam lives in Khabib's shadow & for 99% of people they will be offended by that statement. Islam not only embrace, he also acknowledge that statement at the highest point in his career. Thats humble.

@@The_Reality_Filter he is a powerful man in their area.. They show him respect without sucking up.. Wht more do you want?

@@The_Reality_Filter if you live in the west what do you want to do about your governments bombing the ever living sh** out of people in the Middle East. Why don’t you do something about it. It’s the fn government you a55 wipe be that one person or one party or bunch of corporations pulling strings behind. You can’t just start fing with them. The hypocrisy & virtue signaling of some of the people man.

Aye MMW is the MMA youtube GOAT, I first found his channel from the Thug Rose documentary, which sadly aged like milk, but he's been producing top tier content non stop since then, and probably since before too, I just wasn't around to see it. Love this channel!

Hopefully, volk is a beast

It's long overdue...

Kicking myself for dismissing Alex. He has proven himself being all doubt that he's Great.

Let us know how it went, fingers crossed :)

Good luck brotha 💪

Check out the short on my channel for inspiration

An internet "socialist" on a MMA video? That's not something you see often. Isn't this a little too much "toxic masculinity" for you?

You WILL pull a rabbit out of the hat. You’ve got it brother!

Wats the song name in the background

@@pacodavila1235 I wanna know too. This channel never fails to combine the perfect narration with such a perfect background song. Creating such a moving experience.

Sort of like shit talk but in the right spirit

Khabib doesn't talk smack. He tells the truth before you know it is the truth.

Exactly! One video and you're addicted as a fight fan!

@@themastercay2402 I'm sure you would agree, we need one a day, not one a month dammit!! Lol..

overrated, he'll lose the belt on his first title defence fight, volk is going to come up from a lower division and snatch it off him, the most underrated fighter taking out the most overrated

That last crowd in Brasil was terrrrrible

any mention of his connections to the truly vile Chechen Warlord Ramzan Kadyrov

amen

@@The_Reality_Filter autistic comment

@@The_Reality_Filter Yes, there's a mention of your mommy sleeping with him

@@PeterGriffingigity Awww Mommy jokes, give your Mommy a big hug from me little man.

Oh man, in my opinion 135 out of all divisions it's the only one that I literally can't picture anyone to dominate it. This weight class is the toughest of all.

And what’s crazy is khabib as a head coach since his father passed , coachin guys in other promotions and organizations as well is undefeated as a coach as well, with not one fighter who he coaches or who does their camps under him losing. It’s crazy.

Abdulmanap had been training people who were making olympic judo & wrestling teams for many years, the guy was a legend

Usman is a champion in bellator too .and he can be a ufc champ

How have you seen it so quickly? It just dropped?🤣

@@NicolaMaxwell I have seen all his videos on repeat for the past year. I'm happy with another video to add to the list.

Awesome!

Hey, thanks a lot man, Jesus, appreciate it.