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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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Yeah definitely, that's what makes it so exciting Burns is by far his hardest opponent, and I think his obvious similarities to khabib do a lot of heavy lifting hype wise. So win or lose, it'll be huge either way. I loved khabib and since he retired khamzat is like the next best thing, so far anyway. I'd love to see him vs olievera if they could somehow get the weight divisions matched up, cause they both fight like spider monkeys.
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Same, there will never be another Khabib but Khamzat’s the next best thing. Islam Machichev is also worth mentioning, esp since he’s related to Khabib and Khabib is his coach. But Islam will never be as exciting a fighter as the Chechen Khamzat partly because of Islam’s reserved milktoast personality
Khamzat is a little bit legit crazy. Apparently after he was inspired to become a MMA fighter after seeing Conor Mcgreggor, he took a plane to the state where Conor’s gym is, and was pulled over for speeding and then I think detained, maybe deported I forget. But when the cops asked where he was going, he said he was going to show up at Conor’s gym to fight Conor, and this was before he ever fought in MMA. He had a duffel bag with sparring gear and a large knife. Khamzat seems like the kinda guy who could legit snap
This story I heard on Chael Sonnen’s channel back in the day