Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) two-weight champion Henry Cejudo explained why he does not consider Khabib Nurmagomedov the greatest fighter of all time. He shared his opinion with him “Sports Express”.
“Did I mention that I wouldn’t put Khabib on the list of all-time greats? I think Khabib is in the top 10, top 15. It’s just because he didn’t have a lot of title defenses. He only had 13 fights in the UFC, and Jon Jones There were only 14 title defenses.
I think if we are talking about the most dominant fighter in history, we can call Khabib the same. But the eldest… had everything to become one, but the numbers were not the same. It would be unfair for others to call him the best, Khabib only had three belt defenses.
Fedor Emelianenko? The only problem with it was that it eventually started to lose a lot. If he had left on time, he would definitely be in the top 5. And so maybe we can be in the top 10. But at one point he was the greatest of all time,” Cejudo said.
Khabib Nurmagomedov has had 29 fights in mixed martial arts (MMA) and won every one of them. As a result of the survey conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation in 2021, Khabib was chosen as the person of the year in sports. On October 22, 2023, Nurmagomedov announced that he was quitting everything related to fighting.
Fedor Emelianenko had 48 fights in MMA, in which he had 40 wins and seven defeats.
Previously Cejudo statedThat Russia is changing for the better.