Out of the short list of 'goats' in this video, I have picked out their worst loss (or worst performance if they haven't lost.) Let me know if I missed a fighter out or if i you disagree with any of the fights chosen.
@@Trevor-bp6mu Yep, he was one of the very very few professional fighters to choose Conor to win. Aldo looked unstoppable back then so a lot of them thought Aldo would end the hype. Shows Khabib's level of genius tbh.
@@Trevor-bp6mu yeah I think at aka they even made a shirt called khabib knows as he was often spot on with his fight predictions, if you google khabib knows theres a pic of him and rockhold wearing the shirt lol
In the Khabib vs tibau fight (UFC 148) ring control was the most important factor in a decision along side damage and that’s why Khabib won (he controlled the cage way more)
@xualan7591 bro you need to watch that fight again, on what world does running and disengaging the whole fight amount to domination. No one dominated anyone and thats the only reason ppl say its a khabib loss cus its the one fight he didnt completely dominate his opponent. Khabib takes it on damage and aggression. Tibau wasnt even fighting in there just trying to survive
The scoring system for khabib vs tibau was different, i did score it 2-1 khabib after rewatching. Also for silva, honestly, his first chael fight was his worst performance, dont let the greatest comeback of all time blind you from that fact that he couldn't do anything for 24 minutes straight, outclassed in EVERY department.
In regards to tibau vs khabib, Khabib dealt more damage and controlled the octogon and the pace. Tibau landed one knee and 2 takedowns that amounted to nothing. It was a close fight but you cant give a fight to a guy for landing one knee and a few pitter patter jabs with his back against the cage the whole fight. Also keep in mind ring control was a much more important aspect of scoring at the time. Close fight but on no planet does tibau deserve to win the guy wasnt even trying to fight.
@pingu6028 he landed more jabs sure, but if you watch it again you'll see khabib landed more powershots especially exiting the clinch and the comentary team completely ignored them. Not to mention khabib ended every round with a flurry. The faces of the fighters tells the story, tibau's was red and he looked ready to pass out while khabib looked no worse than when the fight started. More damage, more ring control, more aggression and simply showed up to fight. Khabib by decision or mayyybe a draw but def no Tibau victory thats crazy talk.
Both GSP and Jon Jones’ worst fights were in the Toyota Center. Nearly Everyone else’s worst fight was in the MGM. (DJ wasn’t in the ufc, and Volk and islam both had “home” territories)
Volk won vs Holloway 2 in Abu Dhabi by split decision before, compared to Makhachev first time fighting in Perth Australia, Volk had more knowledge about Abu Dhabi.
It's not that Volk has a weak chin, it was a head kick he took, but Islam set up that combo nicely, and he's been preparing it throughout training camp. This is coming from an Islam and mild fan of Volk. I wanted Holloway to beat Volk but respect to both fighters. I was rooting for Volk against Yair and I want him to win against Ilia.
Yup, Volk took big shots from Holloway in 2nd fight, got dropped still recovered very fast. Mendes dropped Volk too but Volk recovered fast again. Volk has very good chin.
I believe the difference is, Khabib wasn't in his prime while fighting Tibau, that was Khabib's 2nd UFC fight in USA only while traveling from Russia. Inexperienced Khabib struggled vs stylistic nightmare experienced prime Tibau. While Jones was in his prime as usual fighting in his home country USA with crowd cheering for him.
I think you should have only included fights that happened within their main division. It's not fair to expect a guy like Volkanovski to move up in weight and perform just as good. Also, Demetrious Johnson's fight happened in another promotion that has different rules (like knees to ground opponents) and practices (minimum hydration levels) than the UFC.
Volk is not small guy he is weight bully at 145 he used to weigh 200+lbs . he should be fighting WW 170 or 155 at most. And he weigh 155 with islam and on fight night 2lbs difference so enough of this BS excuses. Your boy was just smashed. We have seen many guys move up and beat the champ some witg domination too. So shut up and let him keep bullying 145ers
Tibau did took Khabib down a few times but Khabib outstriked him and was controlling and pressuring the whole fight and ofcourse their face at the end said it all juiced Tibau's face was bleeding
I rewatch the John Jones versus Dominic Reyes fight the other day, and I noticed that John blocks a lot of what Don is throwing could easily be misconstrued for a land, or a significant strike when only part of it is actually making contact with Jones
Look i know he isn’t Jones/Stipe but it still bothers me to this day that DC isn’t on any GOAT list, he is imo the 5th Greatest of all time within UFC, its only cause he lost to the GOAT’s of the divisions he was fighting in he is disregarded dispite being a literal killer like DJ
Tibau only had 3 more sig strikes than Khabib who also had 4min of control time and controlled the octagon better as well which mattered a lot at the time. He clearly won bias aside, no idea how people can argue Tibau won lol. 30-27 khabib is a better scorecard than 29-28 Tibau😂
Khabib's worst performance for me is Al Aquinta, he took the fight on short notice, and Khabib was the dominant guy, he should have finished him easily. (Gleison was the old experienced guy vs the new one, so I think it is a little justified). Also were is BJ Penn, one of the few to put GSP in danger, won ww title and also fought against Lyoto Mashida. He had a 7 losing streak but wow this guy was the best at his prime.
Tibau being on steroids is a non-argument. Everyone at the elite level was and is on steroids, including Khabib who was on Meldonium and testosterone his whole career, and just as much a weight bully in his final UFC run. Islam is repeating the formula now too, even failed an IQ test for meldonium earlier in his career, its the Dagestani EPO, all of them are on it, so if that makes your wins a NC then everyone Islam and Khabib beat in the last 5-6 years are overturned to a NC.
Khabib and Makhachev never got any punishment for using steroids so whats your proof they use that? Tibau was suspended for a while for using steroids.
Literally every athletic prospect in the Dagestan region is put on a regimen of Test + Meldonium from their teenage years onward to try to produce olympic wrestlers, and now MMA fighters. Khabib's own father admitted in an old interview that they both used it leading up to the UFC, you choose to ignore reality if you think they're not on PEDs @@timurjack8773
Volk's worst loss is definitely Makhachev 2 but the fight was as fixed as it could get for a UFC fighter to lose without literally paying them out to dive. I mean a featerweight champion going UP in weight class on TEN DAYS NOTICE for a fight against the INDISPUTED champion of that division is murder. Not to mention that Islam Makhachev walks WELL above lightweight out of weigh in, but when Volk has to make lightweight it's a decent bulk for the man. I'd really want to see a Volk vs Makhachev 3 because the first one was so good that it shows Volk with a full camp is a challenge for Makhachev.
🎉or just Islam got a way to KO him after their 1st. Enough of this 10days notice BS. Usman also took it short notice and did perform way better and according to many could've won if it were 5rds. Volk got KOd first round as fresh as he gets. He even said himself that he is always training and that after Islam 1 he just need sometime now he can finish Islam inusunuating that he figured him out. But turned out Islam was more smarter. So volk Didn't even had significant strike and got annihilated and demoraloized he had to CRY on press conference.
@@pingu6028 he never popped so you can’t definitely say he was. Plus people that are really committed to doing steroids have ways of getting around tests.
Tibau didn't do enough damage to win the fight got out damaged every round visually and prob swayed the judges that's how I see it plus khabib pushed the pace and had no damage taken
Tibau landed 28 significant strikes compared to Khabib's 25,Tibau landed total of 46 strikes compared to Khabib's 33, landed one takedown compared to khabib's zero takedown.
I wouldn't say Jon had a bad performance. It was just the mixture of Jon struggling with people who share his stature and LHW fighters getting better with time. If Jon stayed in the division he would've presumably lost to people like Jan, Jiri and Ankalaev who are better than Reyes by a long shot
Couldn't be much better, 40+ year old Glover became champ and gave jiri a tough fight. Jon dominated Glover when he was younger As someone who thought Jon lost, it was because he had an off night, prime Jon beats everyone you mentioned
@@account-pb2df How you can say Jones had an off night against Reyes when he also had a rubbish performance against Thiago Santos the fight before? You can't have two off nights in a row. If it happens more than one time in a row, chances are you're no longer in your prime and are aging out. The proof is in the pudding. Jones looked lethargic against Santos and Reyes, his takedowns especially. Even in his win against Gane (the easiest fight for him at HW), he looked like he was moving in slow motion on the feet.
Khabib is the only lightweight in the history of the UFC that can't ever be beaten, his aura of invincibility was the strongest out of any UFC fighter. He was also 1 of 2 (Islam and Khabib )fighters that ever dethroned Jon Jones from the PFP #1 spot. Saying Khabib isn't the LW goat is just a biased take filled with fallacy.
@@_sc__ Khabib never lost cuz he never fought anyone that was an elite wrestler neither he faced anyone who was a bad matchup for him and retired early to avoid losing his 0
@@_sc__stat padding your career against russian gardeners and pizza delivery guys won’t make you the goat. only casuals and people who started watching mma in the conor & khabib era consider him the goat
🎉or just Islam got a way to KO him after their 1st. Enough of this 10days notice BS. Usman also took it short notice and did perform way better and according to many could've won if it were 5rds. Volk got KOd first round as fresh as he gets. He even said himself that he is always training and that after Islam 1 he just need sometime now he can finish Islam inusunuating that he figured him out. But turned out Islam was more smarter. So volk Didn't even had significant strike and got annihilated and demoraloized he had to CRY on press conference
3:38 lmao what? This shit is brought up all the time on posts even tangentially related to Khabib. Khabib controlled the fight and did more damage. 30-27 on all cards. Cope
jones worst performance was not reyes. he actually perfromed decent not good but decent. his performance against santos however or against OSP were terrible
@@aminesalim5739fighters that believe in the same god as khabob* real fighters know he statpadded his record and can’t be considered the goat by crying, retired because scared of competition, imagine if jones retired after he became champion or if shavkat gets the belt and retires immediately. casual for sure 👍👍
@@beaualoevvIt doesn't matter when he retired, what matters is what he did before retiring No fighter has done what Khabib did in the history of MMA, winning without losing a single round without a scratch If he continues he will be 35-0 with 9 title defenses
Aldo def ain’t featherweight goat. He’s lost to every other ufc FW champ. He was not against the high level comp that Volk and Max were. He’s probs 3rd best FW thou
@@Slim-MMAyou can’t put Holloway ahead of volk when volk has beat Holloway 3 times. Obviously the second fight was close and could have gone to Holloway but you can’t go out and say Holloway is better when he can’t beat volk
So Khabib controlled the fight by a mile by being taken to the ground twice and hugging the cage for most the fight? I’m also confused about you saying Khabib damaged his face to a pulp. Most of Kahbibs shots were pillow-fisted slaps or straight up misses. I don’t even think Khabib lost the fight and I am the biggest Khabib Stan around, but to say he controlled Tibau easily for 3 rounds and beat his face to a pulp is just not true and requires a rewatch from you.