Khabib Nurmagomedov explains why he was the #1 pound for pound fighter and no longer Jon Jones: “I was mauling every person”

Used UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has explained why he believes he was the pound-for-pound king prior to Jon Jones.

Whereas he can even be pleased retired nearly a 365 days previously now, Khabib is peaceable the title on every person’s lips by draw of the lightweight division. The worn king at 155 pounds was in a position to dispatch every person who got right here sooner than him and he did so in the form of dominant vogue that has left many believing he’s the correct lightweight of all time.

Valid through a modern interview with ESPN, Khabib went a step further by suggesting that, at the time, he was the pound-for-pound no 1 prior to gentle heavyweight sensation Jon Jones.

“For me it’s worship, 30-0, 29-0, or 15-0, it’s nothing. I fight and I showed the field,” Nurmagomedov talked about. “And from nowhere, I got right here right here and took all of the whole lot. At that 2nd, I was the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter. This, no person can roar nothing. It was no longer Kamaru Usman, it was no longer Jon Jones, who fights very end fights with all these gentle heavyweights worship Ovince Saint Preux, worship Thiago (Santos), Anthony Smith, Dominick Reyes. These guys, [Jones] showed versus them very scandalous performances, and the whole lot that came about with doping. But what about me? I was mauling every person.”

Quotes courtesy of MMA Combating

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