As a former lightweight player of UFC, he succeeded in the third defense of lightweight, winning 13 games in 13 UFC matches, and winning 29 wins in his career.
Abarine Judo of Mahachkala, Dagestan Republic, Russian Federation of North Caucasus Autonomous Republic, Combat Sambo and Wrestling Base.
Key wins: Kamal Charlorus, Glayson Tibau, Thiago Tavares, Abel Trujillo, Pat Healy, Hapael dos Anyos, Darrell Hosher, Michael Johnson, Edson Barboza, Al-Aquinta, Connor McGregor, Dustin Poirier, Justin Geich
He is a wrestler with the best skill in the fuselage class and the most powerful grappler in UFC lightweight history. He is very strong and has a very good Jiu-Jitsu technique that he presses in the top position, so whoever the opponent is is dragged to the ground, he cannot escape and hell unfolds. Usually, wrestling-based players boo when they try a so-called Gabi, but Khabib moves very actively on the ground and constantly drives various skills such as moving positions, guard passes, Crucifixes, and pounding, so I can't hear such booing. Since power is such a fraud within the weight class, there is no big problem in using skills that require a lot of strength. He also pressed Rafael dos Anyos, the strongest grappler in the same weight class and a group of world-class joujitsu, and he also played Kimura Rock on the ground as well as pressed former wrestlers like Michael Johnson. Bjj Scout, an MMA analyst, said Khabib shows a high-level control ability like a mixture of great grapplers Damian Maia, GSP, and Ben Askren. Khabib's overwhelming performance on the ground is not just a wrestler with good wrestling skills, but rather a grappler with a very good understanding of the ground, that is, Jiu-Jitsu.
From the opponent's point of view, if he is dragged to the lower position, it will be over, so he tries to avoid it, but the problem is that he is also a master of take-down skills. It really shows how terrible the mix of judo and wrestling is. It is a great advantage not only to rely on high crochets/singleships and doubles, and it has a considerable understanding of the center of gravity, so it freely uses field leg fryers and related connectors. However, this is not the type that relies on delicate foot techniques. In addition to bottom take-downs such as single-track/double-track and angle-pick, they also select opponents to occupy side controls at the same time as the filling. In short, he is a tough player to hit people. Not only is it technically clean and efficient, but it also has athletic ability and tenacity, so it lies down on the case where the opponent's take-down defense skills are pretty good or bad. At least Glayson T-Bau had the upper hand in the hitting battle with Khabib, but T-Bau is a drug addict. In addition, Khabib's own millhouse is good, so it does not collapse well, and he has never even allowed groggy, let alone down.
If you look closely at Khabib's pattern, you will gradually pressure the opponent by playing a search match based on an excellent sense of distance and footwork that is not like a wrestler. The opponent hits hard so that he doesn't get pushed out somehow because it's over when he's driven to the fence and taken down, but Khabib drops it with distance control and covering or chews it into a mill before rushing. In the beginning, he/she presses carefully, but when the time comes, he/she drives the opponent to the cage with a punch rush, and immediately pushes the opponent to the cage through a clinch or tackle. Then, after selling the underhook, the opponent is easily handed over and the pound bombing is started. Once separated on the ground, the opponent is completely exhausted, and the strikers are gradually losing out to Khabib even in the standing area.
Khabib is often compared to a wrestler of great strength, but as Poirier said, Khabib's true fear does not come from strength. Al-Iaquinta said Kevin Lee is the strongest player he has ever faced, but unlike power-dependent wrestlers like Kevin Lee and Brock Lesner, Khabib has a tremendous understanding of center of gravity and leverage, allowing him to keep his opponent down for nearly five rounds without much energy.
Most of Khabib's games generally flow as follows.
Push the opponent into the corner of the cage through a stiff jab, flying knee, and both hook rush. Once in a corner, the opponent becomes hard to hit confidently and hard to defend a straight-line take-down (because Khabib needs distance to retreat from the take-down defense of the posting/
Put the lower tackle (double, single, low single) into the opponent who has the guard up to defend against the batting rush. Afterwards, he comes up to the upper body of the opponent who is stuck in the cage and hangs a clinch. Unlike other wrestlers, Khabib is rather more efficient to catch an upper body clinch because he does not lose his physical strength easily. At this time, if the opponent exposes his legs from the upper body clinch, he will immediately fill them with a high crochet and drag them to the ground.
After attracting the opponent to dig an underhook at the clinch, grab the body lock at over-under (with each other's underhooks sold), and pass the opponent with a superior grappling technique (after holding both hands together and hugging the upper body). In this case, Damian Maia-style leg trips and judo-style waist flippers are used.
When the fallen opponent puts his hip on the ground, he uses a jiu-jitsu leg triangle, a wrestling ride when his knee is on the ground, and when his back is on the ground, he passes the guard and rides the side/crucifix side. At this time, Khabib's common tendency is to control the opponent's arms and legs. You can see a deep understanding of both the jiu-jitsu concept of "take the opponent's legs off the ground" and the wrestling concept of "break the base by fighting hands." After locking the legs with leg triangle, press down the opponent's posted arm or ride to eat the legs and control the wrist with 2 on1… To borrow BJJ Scout's expression, Ben Askren, Damien Maia, and GSP seem to be united in one place from a controlling point of view. It is natural that a terrible baptism of punches will be introduced in this process.
No matter how you get out of it, you catch a back clinch and fool the opponent with superior mat return techniques such as leg trips and slams. After that, when the opponent loses strength, he rides a back and finishes with a rear naked choke or punch. The opponent is already exhausted by hand fights and punches, so he cannot afford to defend the choke.
Because they play such a one-sided game in this way, players who face Khabib cannot have a fight. The corner McGregor was also dragged around like a stuffed doll throughout the fourth round He gave up the hand fight and gave up the choke, and Dustin Poirier also seemed to give up the game helplessly when Gilotin, who had done his best, was released.
In fact, Khabib's take-down technology was not always this good. Looking at the game between the small and medium-sized stage and the early days of UFC debut, Habib's take-down strategy was so monotonous that he tried to overturn it with a single-gleck dump at a long distance, induced a buttocks in a pipe position, and even escaped to a back if it was blocked. Of course, this is a combination of three technologies. However, with this level of chain take-down technology, it was not possible to overcome all UFC fighters, which clearly showed its limitations as all take-down attempts failed in the match against Glayson Tibau.
Since then, the technology he has gained from AKA is body lock take-down at Clinch. The experience of upper body control that he originally had in Sambo was properly awakened by AKA's systematic wrestling coaching. Habib then showed a complete slaughter in the match against Abel Trujillo, scoring as many as 22 take-downs. The game that created the image of Khabib, the current wrestling monster.
Khabib's batting is not very good. In terms of attack, the accuracy and distance sense of hitting are observed by wrestlers, but the upper body is too standing, the form is stiff, and the headhunting tends to be done. However, because he has good physical ability or physical strength, he can always pressure his opponent at a constant pace, and he rarely thinks that he will be taken down by his opponent, so he often throws bold techniques such as flying ties. Of course, the way he swings his fists without a guard after Docdol looks sloppy compared to his reputation, and his batting ability itself is a weakness. And Habib's mill/jaw is still questionable, unlike the Mattress Kings, who have proven their strong jaws several times, as they have rarely been properly hit by full-power hits due to overwhelming grappling.
When the opponent attacks, he tends to fall back by shoulder-rolling, and the face defense is surprisingly compliant, but the kick defense is not very good. The opponent doesn't kick much due to his threat to wrestling, but he allows it quite a bit when he kicks. It doesn't even show a counter tackle on a kick. Edson Barbosa kicks the middle and hits it all, but only after the offensive stops does he aggressively. It can hardly use the so-called sweet science counter strategy that pushes in the opponent's timing. However, after the kick catch in the match against Keichi, he finished the game right after the take-down, and it was refuted to some extent by saying that Khabib was weak at kicks.
However, Khabib's weapon is wrestling, so it is common for him to care about the terrible wrestling and fall into vain without even trying to attack properly. These days, I have a lot of fun with the classic hitting strategy of giving and hitting wrestling paint, and an overhand following the paint made Connor McGregor fall on the hip. The unexpected strength I showed at this time is my hand speed. It also proved that it was not just a water fist, showing a lightning overhand hook almost like Michael Johnson.
Ordinary wrestlers often show signs of weakness for well-taken defenses and heavy-handed hitters, including Rafael dos Anjos, Michael Johnson, Edson Barza, Connor McGregor
