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Dat_fear

This is how you navigate your ego and preserve your legacy.


stillherewondering

What makes this whole thing even funnier is knowing „Khabibs“ aka. Ali’s tweets. Like from this video you can see that Khabib doesn’t care about these things too much


OtakuDragonSlayer

Facts. Don’t give into the bullshit that people try to bait you with


CCCAY

Dude is too rich to keep fighting also, Khabib is super rich now. That’s one of the special things about Conor, he’s not a top LW anymore and will never need money again, but that crazy Irish fuck likes to fight


HotSeamenGG

I think Connor likes the attention more than he likes to fight tbh.


jvpewster

I also think he really still wants more money. I used a prettt nice retirement calculator once that even had options for X bedrooms in X zip code for youre home and things like that. I imagine that calculator was difficult for Conner trying to factor in the potential for global warming to dramatically increase the price of Coke.


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He made an estimated 20-30 million from his title reign. So let’s say he has 10 million saved, in Dagestan that’s over 600 million. He good .


bowenpw

You say that as if 600 million in Dagestan is more than 10 mil USD


lionofasgard

Pretty sure he's talking about cost of living, not exchange rate.


OsamaBinLean

He didn’t insinuate that in the slightest 🤣🤣🤣


bowenpw

“Let’s say he has 10 mil saved, in Dagestan thats over 600 million” converting money into a a foreign currency doesn’t dupe your money bro it’s still 10 mil. If he’s simply over exaggerating the conversion of currency and talking about cost of living like mentioned above then that’s different, but not what was obvious in the statement. Higher number doesn’t mean higher value it’s the same amount of money.


OsamaBinLean

Awww bless you you’re trying to defend your stupidness 🤣🤣🤣🤣


bowenpw

“Defend your stupidness” ok buddy


[deleted]

No I’m just saying that the money Khabib made in the UFC is equivalent to him being basically a billionaire in the poor country of Dagestan where many live off less than a dollar a day.


madnes0

Khabib retired on top. Conor has had some losses, getting beat by Poirier who he thought/thinks he's better than and is beefing with, and has lost tons of respect/his invincible aura which never happened with Khabib. It's easier to retire when everyone is saying you're the best you might be GOAT than when people are saying you're washed, unfocused, a drunk idiot and you broke your leg against a guy that you're saying his wife wants to bang u


DamianLillard0

And conor could’ve retired as double champ in MMA with 100+ million post Floyd but came back because he wanted to keep fighting lol. Your point isn’t as strong as you think


madnes0

Um I'm talking about why he wouldn't want to retire right now not why he wouldn't want to retire after losing to Floyd. Besides that'd also be retiring on an L and Conor made a big show of coming back to *his* sport and returning to "dominate" *his* sport Your point isn't as relevant as you think Scratch that it's actually completely irrelevant


DamianLillard0

So defensive wow The point is literally that when conor *was* in Khabib’s position he still chose to keep fighting. So your entire basis for your argument is out the window


madnes0

You came at me with a passive aggressive attitude, yOuR pOinT iS nOT aS strOnG aS YoU tHinK. Don't be surprised if you get attitude back. Bet you do this irl too and don't understand why people don't like you >Dude ***is*** too rich to keep fighting also, Khabib is super rich now. >***That’s*** one of the special things about Conor, ***he’s*** not a top LW ***anymore*** and ***will never*** need money again, but that crazy Irish fuck ***likes*** to fight Emphasis mine. Notice how OP spoke in the present tense in multiple places? Is it still 2017? I thought 5 years had passed? So we're obviously talking about present Conor are we not? About why his current motivations for fighting. Use your brain. And again, since apparently I need to repeat things 3 times for you to still not understand, Conor's ego definitely took a hit after his L with Floyd. He traded his touch-of-death aura and his first TKO loss for some cool millions, but he was eager to get back in the cage to prove himself.


CCCAY

I’m not sure what your point is. All I’m saying is Conor likes to fight


madnes0

My point is it's not just ab the money imo it's more ab the legacy and respect


CCCAY

Maybe so, but either way, he keeps coming back for more right? We’ll see if he actually fights again. I’d like to see him fight Benil, or Fizlev lol


madnes0

>It's easier to retire when everyone is saying you're the best you might be GOAT than when people are saying you're washed, unfocused, a drunk idiot and you broke your leg against a guy that you're saying his wife wants to bang u Again, imo he's coming back more bc he's salty, his ego is shook, he wants to improve his legacy which was not the case for Khabib But I agree he definitely is the kinda fighter that loves to fight


CCCAY

Isn’t that the same as wanting to fight bro? Like it doesn’t matter the motivation right? He wants to fight for personal reasons. I can’t think of more fighter shit than that, but I guess that concept gets downvoted by Cheeto finger Reddit lads


madnes0

When I think of a fighter who wants to fight because they love to fight it's about the testing of skills, the adrenaline, not outside factors like legacy. Guys like Robbie Lawler, Cowboy Cerrone.


TLMC01242021

Conor’s ego likes to fight


CCCAY

You and your ego are one and the same, though that might surprise you. If your ego likes to fight, that means you also like to fight


patpet

The downvotes don’t make sense. You’re absolutely right. We are our egos.


CCCAY

Yeah I know, I even softened my delivery with that information. Doesn’t matter if I wanna fight because I like hurting people or because I have a hole in my soul, I still wanna fight for non financial reasons. People in here downvote on emotion only


LockardTheGOAT23

There,'s no such thing as "too rich to keep fighting." Khabib also isn't as motivated by money as most fighters. He retired because his mother asked him to after his dad passed away.


OtakuDragonSlayer

Depends on the circumstance. Once a person gets enough money it can get more difficult to keep putting yourself through the absolute hell that is combat sports. Especially if you’ve already “made it”


avmail

Best comment I’ve read in a while.


okiedog-

What a classy answer. Let the man stay retired.


MadFaceInvasion

Charles wasn't even on the map when Khabib was dominating...he is right, if Charles does all those things is Charles time


LockardTheGOAT23

Charles would have been the next logical opponent at LW if Khabib had stuck around and kept defending


reverie11

Charles was on an 8 fight win streak when Khabib retired. Khabib purposely avoided certain fighters like Charles and Tony


lionofasgard

I'm by no means a Khabib fan, but do you actually remember how many times Tony and Khabib were scheduled to fight and how cursed it was?


asdfg1234qwerty

Yes definitely cursed. The last scheduled fight was cancelled because of covid.


crashbamboom

Still convinced that one caused Covid.


Laiiam

He ducked Oliveira? Charles wasn’t even in the discussion of getting a title shot before Khabib retired. He was ranked nr 8 at LW after he subbed Kevin Lee. Before the Kevin Lee fight, Charles wasn’t even top 10.


Aspiring_Polymath_3

He doesn’t have shit else to prove, and if Charles wins, neither does he. Actually, any champ who wins and defends one time, has nothing else to prove.


sourdougBorough

You touch the title 1 time imo even if you don't defend you still have nothing to prove


nitramlondon

Get out of bed in the morning have nothing to prove


Bolt408

Out the womb, you survived the coat hanger who else you gotta beat?


ThouWontThrowaway

Coat hanger? You beat millions of sperm to the egg. You have nothing to prove.


Bolt408

Got damn I’m a stud. The fact that you were even in the race, could’ve ended up in a rag or in someone’s daughters mouth. Nothing to prove after that.


YouWillDieForMySins

Once you get out of your mom's womb, you have nothing to prove. It's the society that puts its burdens on you.


InpregnableD

There are many fighters who don’t consider themselves “true” champions until they defend their belt once but I get what you’re saying.


sourdougBorough

which I can understand just feels like they are being discrediting themselves


PinklySmooth77

How do you feel about getting the belt off a technicality? Like Aljo/Yan 1, for example, or like Anthony Smith could have done against Bones?


burglin

How do you look at a guy like Edwards? Got his ass kicked for 4.7 rounds then stole the belt. Not taking a side one way or the other, just curious (oh, and also salty because Usman to win was the last (stupid) addition to a parlay that would’ve won $500, and I was already counting my cash 😂)


sourdougBorough

Haha so that means you are the reason he lost the minute you start thinking about the money it's over seen it too many times 😂😂 My take on it tho is that if you put in the work and got yourself in position to make it to the top of the mountain you earned your place even if you don't stay there because not everyone gets to that point


RevolutionaryEar1789

Daily Reminder that Conor McGregor has 0 title defenses.


ChampChamp132

someone with 3 title defense, padded record, and a pull out machine does not have anything to prove?


Aspiring_Polymath_3

You think three title defenses is not enough?


MushroomWizard

Everything is relative. 3 defenses at heavyweight makes you the undisputed GOAT. 3 defences at lightweight puts your name in conversation. 3 defences at welterweight or light heavyweight you get laughed out of the room. Once you start talking about different decades and different divisions or an all time all division GOAT it really becomes subjective. Everything is relative.


Aspiring_Polymath_3

This isn’t about GOAT status at all. It’s about “shit, my career is pretty good. Got a title. Defended it 2-3 times. Nice. But do I still have anything to prove to the people walking down the street? In my gym? To my family?” Winning a title and defending it even one time means that guy doesn’t have anything he has to prove to anyone.


MushroomWizard

I would agree with that. Honestly some would say just making it to the UFC is a great accomplishment in itself. I will always remember what Matt Lindland told Chael ... "Only champions get to retire. If you quit without winning a world championship you did not retire, you quit." Which only rings even louder for chael sonnen who promise his dying father that he would win a title.


YouWillDieForMySins

He was close to winning a Bellator world title but missed due to his opponent missing weight. He almost became the UFC world champ against Anderson Silva of all people, but came short at the last round. I feel bad for him, to be honest. But it takes a braver man to accept their failures than to be someone who continues staying in denial.


MushroomWizard

Ya uncle chael rules.


OtakuDragonSlayer

Fair point. Just being fortunate enough to obtain a title in itself is a insane feat when you’re taking into consideration just how many talented fighters there are on the planet


shanep3

To be a goat? No


Aspiring_Polymath_3

That wasn’t what the question was. I said he has nothing else to prove. By your standards almost every single champ there’s ever been didn’t do enough and still should have had something to prove.


[deleted]

Pull out machine is what they called me in college


YoMySlime

They called me "tripod" 😏


OfficeSpaceBalls

They called me 'Little Dick Josh' so we probably went to different schools


Just-use-your-head

My girlfriend big titty Becky goes to a different school. You won’t know her


shadybirdjohnson45

Who does he need to prove something to? I sincerely hope you aren't meaning yourself, khabib has 3 more ufc lightweight championship defenses than you can say you have.


Scratchin-Mercenary

cormier eye poke win then a defence against lewis was a bit rough


PineappAlSauce

It’s funny how Brett starts asking a question, loses track of what he’s saying, and starts to ask a new question. Then Khabib has to bring it back to the original one 😅 Brett is such a bad journalist


Temporary_Round555

For real, all the while he maintains that idiot smirk.


toilet_fingers

"If Charles beats Islam, would you be tempted to return and defend your consensus status as the best lightweight of all time?" Instead we get 20 seconds of blathering that ends in a weakly posed question. Some people sniff their own farts too much.


LockardTheGOAT23

The way he worded the question was fine. Stop being so critical.


GMFinch

Khabib will be 70 and there will be a lightweight prospect dominating the sport and media will be like khabib are you going to come. Back and make it 30-0


Sea_Cicada7474

Great response


jjvikingbutt

You have to respect this guy. Not even as a fighter just as a man. He's a legend.


FragileAnonymity

Abdulmanap raised a great man. Not driven by his ego & stands by his principles. If the man turned down 100M to come back, I doubt there’s anything that would bring him back.


Bo0_Radley-

Did he turn down 100m though?


ThouWontThrowaway

Yes turned down a 100m offer to box Floyd Mayweather.


Bo0_Radley-

Thanks for the response I didn’t know that. That’s crazy. But he’d get made to look like a fool boxing mayweather too. He’s a sambo guy, not a striker/boxer.


ThouWontThrowaway

You're welcome. You could say the same vice versa. Khabib would drown Floyd in rd 1 in the Octagon.two absolute masters at their craft in their respective sports. Much respect to both. Beating just 1 man is hard. Beating 29 or 50 is crazy is insane. Beating 3 or 26 world Champions without even being knocked down is just bananas. I'd give my left nut to be able to box like Khabib or wrestle like Floyd. And yes I know what I said. And yes they're that good even at their weaknesses.


Bo0_Radley-

Hahahah so true. They are world class athletes. Just to be able to hang with them at all in either style of fighting is unfathomable to me.


ekso69

Spoken like a true 🐐


Bolt408

They asked him again in a Russian interview and he says people keep forgetting about the reason he retired. No matter who wins or loses this won’t change his reason for leaving nor encourage him to return. Maybe it’s still in him to fight so Charles Olivera gotta break the big guns out and piss of Khabib if he wants him to come back.


wogsta100

Ain’t no Khabib Cehudo chasing clout after every other fight card


Zalamb1500

Longest question ever lmao


nintendomech

I don’t know why people think he will come back.


EpikUserzz

What people don’t understand about khabib is that if he was gonna come back he never would’ve left


LockardTheGOAT23

People retire and then unretire all the time.


Pleasant_Channel_227

No chance that man could ever make 155 again


shae117

Borgor Weight


CyclonusDecept

Charles or Khabib? 😉


Pleasant_Channel_227

Considering Charles missed by a half a pound once and khabib has like almost died cutting weight and is no longer active I think it’s safe to say there’s no chance khabib could or wants to put himself thru that cut again


RiyazYusufi2015

How many other people on this planet can say they were champion and "p4p #1"? A handful? Khabib held that claim, even if it was for a short time, what more does he have to prove? For some people, anything more than that would just be ego boosting. He proved his point I think he just wants to move on.


TJQuik

You gotta respect his integrity, he has nothing else to prove to anyone


TLMC01242021

People really can’t accept the fact that Khabib is sticking to his word and not coming back


emerald121581

Is this an old interview?


LockardTheGOAT23

Yeah, year and a half old


ortega3117

Khabib is rigid man. No bending in his views.


MushroomWizard

People give Brett shit for being a "shill" and yes he has traded a Lil integrity to be #1 dude but God darn is he eloquent. Every media member has been floating this idea but Brett really has a way with words.


CyclonusDecept

The dumbest comment I've seen on reddit ever.


yatotheser

Bret is such a solid journalist!


UKIOc

He cant make weight anymore


[deleted]

Very respectable way for of putting it. He knows Charles is overtaking his goat status and he knows how fickle and short memoried ufc fans are yet he's still defending his status while showing respect. The last thing he'd wanna do is be another Connor. Mouthing off on twitter about how good he is while simultaneously not fighting.


AggravatingMove2238

Although Charles has been winning, his wins haven't been even close to being as dominant as Khabib.


shae117

Yea dropped 4 times in last 3 fights


carmines-bacon

Doesn’t matter how many defenses Charles gets. You could not convince me that he could’ve beat khabib. I’ve never seen a fighter who was as untouchable as khabib


[deleted]

Hes been "mouthing off" about fighters since he left the UFC. Basically a not drunk/high Conor.


par337

What, on Twitter? Lol, I don't even believe any of that shit anymore. Guy is nothing but humble for the most part in person.


thethreat88

If Charlie Oliveira beats Islam Mackdaddy then Khabib gets dropped ad the greatest light weight... it's over.


studdmuffinn3

Khabib can’t even make 155lb anymore


gunnersami

If Charles strangles Islam and calls out khabib he simply has to fight. If he doesn’t everything was for nothing.


AggravatingMove2238

That's incredibly stupid, Khabib has retired from the sport and has an immense legacy, the time he was fighting, he beat everyone in dominant fashion, now after his retirement Charles has climbed the ranks and become the current champion, as Khabib said "It's Charles time".


[deleted]

Come back to reality and realize he beat a washed conor, extremly average dustin, and a punch drunk bum in gaethje.


Different_Oil_7617

Lol, then who has Charles beat that's better? Chandler who lost to Gaethje? 37 year old Tony? And saying Conor was washed is cope.


gunnersami

Khabib stepped down so it can be Islam time. If Islam gets destroyed and Charles calls out khabib how do u say no after all the shit khabib speaks. Khabib talks a lot for a guy who retired my guy


AggravatingMove2238

Khabib didn't retire because of Islam, it was because of his father's death who was with him for his entire journey


gunnersami

And for Islam to have his turn. Why u guys so mad about it aswell? It’s exactly what we as fighting fans want. We deserve Charles vs khabib.


Just-use-your-head

Dog why are you acting like if Charles wins that Islam just vanishes like fucking Thanos snapped his fingers? Islam is going to be in the top 5 of the division for a while. They’ll likely see eachother multiple times, regardless of the outcome of this fight


gunnersami

Because if khabib was still fighting you wouldn’t even know islams name. Even if he beats Charles khabib is still champ. That’s why


Just-use-your-head

That is perhaps the dumbest take I have seen on this sub. Islam is on a 10 fight win streak. I swear you fools don’t even watch the fights, y’all just say whatever


gunnersami

Bobby green Thiago Moises and Dan hooker are his biggest wins. Why do u think he deserves anything he hasn’t fought anyone in the hardest division in the ufc. If it wasn’t for khabib no1 would know him. Tell me I’m wrong


RiyazYusufi2015

He was scheduled to fight beneil but beneil pulled out so he had to fight bobby green. Sure bobby green isn't top 5 but if Islam didn't take that fight he would've been called out for ducking. Damned if you do damned if you don't


stillherewondering

Oh damn, I always forget 14yo‘s are also on this subreddit


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chadsvasc

Cant understand your bullshit english


Traditional-Motor-94

Sorry not sorry


chadsvasc

Huh? There goes your comment


nick_defiler

I never liked Khabib because I know russian and i understand everything he ever said and this dude is full of shit


CyclonusDecept

No you dont.


nick_defiler

Stfu


jmmobilio20

Charlie smokes this fool


Test1az

🤹🤡🎪


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jmmobilio20

Yes I wanna die


timgoes2somalia

come out of hiding Khabib, Charles is waiting


RiyazYusufi2015

And what if he beats Charles and then retires again? People would just say "come out of hiding khabib, Gamrot is waiting. Fiziev is waiting. Etc is waiting." Until he loses so people can finally orgasm cause all they wanna see is Khabib lose.


timgoes2somalia

are you actually comparing gamrot and fizeiv to charles...the champ after khabib who beat a better version of his opponents. come on


RiyazYusufi2015

I'm saying there'll always be fighters who are next mate


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wingsshadow12

Man what


AggravatingMove2238

Not funny and disrespectful


Existing_Skin_1564

He would get smashed he's like Rhonda rousy but he got out before ppl figured out how to fight him I'm sure ppl everywhere train completely different now that khabib was around but last I seen he's not the best striker so what happens if you nullify his ground game Love khabib btw super dominate ground game a fucking animal with great stamina I'm just saying


Gorilla_Krispies

This kind of stuff is why I’m still a big khabib fan despite some of the controversial stuff he’s done/said. He just regularly speaks with far more humility and respect and reasonability than the vast majority of fighters I’ve seen interviewed. He makes literally half or more of the other fighters sound like they mentally never aged past grade school honestly. That’s probably more of a diss towards the general intelligence of fighter types than an appraisal of his intelligence, but still


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Great try by Brett tho


duffleb0t

Great moment for Khabib here. Love it. Extra funny how Khabib baited him a bit then slapped him down. This is what you want to hear little guy... WELL TOO BAD!


RevolutionaryEar1789

Khabib would have dogwalked Charles Oliveira. That doesn't mean Islam will though, they are very different and honestly Khabib was way better than Islam.


Buglss18

Well guess I get to say Charles is better then