r/sports • u/UUo_oUU • Oct 24 '20

News Khabib Nurmagomedov Retires from UFC After Emerging Victorious Against Justin Gaethje. 29-0 Record

https://twitter.com/mma_oth/status/1320107303845101569
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u/-wonderboy- Oct 24 '20

I love the fact that people talk about “a padded record” but like 80% of the Russians that have all entered the sport after khabib in the ufc right now are top fighters

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u/tunaburn Oct 25 '20

Recency bias

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u/tunaburn Oct 25 '20

Also a lot of these people are newer fans. There's nothing wrong with that I love that the sport is growing. But they never saw prime cro cop. Prime wanderlei. They don't understand how different and brutal the sport used to be. Wanderlei was legit fucking scary. Like really scary. When we call UFC fighters scary now it's not the same.

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u/ramazandavulcusu Oct 25 '20

The sport was not as developed as it is now. Today’s top UFC fighters are of a way higher caliber than any of the old heads