paulo vs khamzat at lhw at msg in november

Khamzat going to heavyweight next after LHW

In 2021/22 if you told someone that Khamzat has a real chance to retire without a title defense they would obviously be disappointed i dont think thats crazy to say

Came here to say this

That’s not how u beat the champ lmao

Paramount gave the judges the script, garbage as f***

Without a doubt

Really? Idk...what makes you say that

Sean won the majority of rounds thats how it makes sense

That s*** abt the champ is nonsense. Dude completely abandoned the ground game for entire rounds and played right into Seans strengths. He knows he lost which is why he put the belt around him

There’s no way Khumshot lost to Strickland

Oh y’all saying he got robbed makes sense

I never expected him to make many defenses if he ended up with a belt, whether it was 170 or 185.
He’s always had trouble making weight, and he started off bouncing between 2 weight classes. That’s usually a telltale sign that fighter isn’t gonna defend their belt long if they win one.

Nah he lost in a close fight, judges got it right

I’m exaggerating a bit lol

I have to watch again and see which rounds I’d give to who, but I just don’t think walking backwards and throwing reactionary jabs to consistent pressure the entire time should have won him the fight. Not when compared to what Khamzat has going for him (takedowns and forward pressure the entire fight as well as plenty of standing strikes of his own)

So you didn’t watch the fight yet?

Khamzat has like 8 or 9 takedowns credited to him, but like 5 of them at least are just tripping Strickland down to one knee against the cage. Or a quick trip and Strickland popped back up within like 20 seconds. He only had like 2-3 takedowns where he got Strickland down on his back, and aside from 1 of them, he didn’t keep Strickland down for very long.

Nah I watched it

If I didn’t I’d be a complete douchebag lmao I’m not that goofy

But yeah, I’m not saying Khamzats takedowns were hugely successful for him, but even despite most of them being ineffective the same could be said about Stricklands peppering while being backed up the entire time. Like nice jabs but the guy is still in your grill jabbing you back a significant amount as well.

As I say this I’m willing to admit it was a close fight, but giving Khamzat the defense after what we saw would’ve been far less of a surprise than Strickland taking it

Okay im coping yall got me

Mental gymnastics wont change the result

Statistics are irrelevant when you judge a fight based on who wins each round

Anyone got a link to the full fight ? I fell asleep earlier

If you don't move your head to dodge them reactionary jabs, it still doesn't look good on you. S*** jab, s*** head movement, that Strickland straight was connecting the whole fight. Khamzat abandoned the takedowns altogether when the s*** got stuffed, saved it for the fifth, tried again and it got stuffed. And just like that, he was out of tools Not to mention Round 2 was complete ass.

In 2021 he literally “retired”

I don't think it's fair for people to hold the inactivity due to COVID against him, like wtf was he supposed to do. But the thing with khamzat as a prospect was that he wasn't yet fully tested in the distance. He damn near died in the Burns fight. Also DDP managed to get top position in the fifth round of their fight. It's little things like that gang

He won those fights lol I’m sorry ya’ll thought he should be a perfect fighter with flawless performances.

Even GSP got busted up in some fights.

Ya’ll are wild lol

How did this turn out?

But like nobody saying he should be perfect lmao idk why you going so hard for dude, it's not like I'm completely s***ting on his run but the gas tank issue is not out of reach. Maybe when he moves up it could do wonders for him like it did Paulo Costa in his last fight