{"id":393948,"date":"2022-06-25T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T09:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=393948"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T09:45:59","slug":"khabib-never-even-had-a-close-fight-ali-abdelaziz-breaks-down-jon-jones-place-on-the-goat-list-compares-khabib-nurmagomedov-and-georges-st-pierre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/khabib-never-even-had-a-close-fight-ali-abdelaziz-breaks-down-jon-jones-place-on-the-goat-list-compares-khabib-nurmagomedov-and-georges-st-pierre\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Khabib Never Even Had a Close Fight&#8217;- Ali Abdelaziz Breaks Down Jon Jones&#8217; Place on the GOAT List; Compares Khabib Nurmagomedov and Georges St-Pierre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Famed MMA manager Ali Abdelaziz chimed in on the frequently talked about GOAT debate in MMA and shared his assessment. According to the head honcho over at Dominance MMA, Jon Jones shouldn\u2019t be helmed as the GOAT in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>Abdelaziz talked about how Jon Jones had a couple of close fights towards the end of his light heavyweight run that made fans question his dominance. In fact, many believe that \u2018Bones\u2019 Jones flat out lost his February 2020 fight against Dominick Reyes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yT8OyuIX56Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Instead of hailing Jones as the GOAT, Ali Abdelaziz offered up Khabib Nurmagomedov as the greatest fighter of all time. His argument for \u2018The Eagle\u2019 was that his dominance inside the cage was virtually unparalleled.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ufc-commentator-michael-bisping-makes-a-massive-prediction-on-leon-edwards-odds-in-a-fight-against-kamaru-usman\/\">UFC Commentator Michael Bisping Makes a Massive Prediction on Leon Edwards\u2019 Odds in a Fight Against Kamaru Usman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe G.O.A.T. means inside the cage, outside the cage. Khabib never had close fight. You look at Jon Jones, his last three fights are very close fights. Khabib never even had a close fight. Dominance. Khabib is better.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUndefeated. In many rounds Khabib is better. Outside the cage Khabib is better. Khabib never had issues with USADA. None of this stuff. Of course Jon Jones is great fighter, but he could not tie the shoes of Khabib. I don\u2019t think he can. He\u2019s good, but Khabib is on another level.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gJTq8z2SF3\">pic.twitter.com\/gJTq8z2SF3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BONY (@JonnyBones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonnyBones\/status\/1525709679891841024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ali Abdelaziz also placed welterweight icon Georges St-Pierre as the GOAT as he\u2019s avenged both the losses he\u2019s ever suffered in MMA.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMany people you can say they\u2019re GOATs. Georges St-Pierre, what a great human being. How can you not say he\u2019s the GOAT \u2026 I\u2019m not taking anything away from Jon Jones, but I don\u2019t think he is. I can put Georges St-Pierre before him.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/ali-abdelaziz-weighs-in-on-the-mma-goat-debate-of-course-jon-jones-is-a-great-fighter-but-he-could-not-tie-the-shoes-of-khabib\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bjpenn.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jon Jones\u2019 legacy is sure to be defined by the final chapter of his career that is set to play out at heavyweight. \u2018Bones\u2019 has taken a sizeable hiatus from the sport and has worked on naturally filling out his 6\u20194\u201d frame in order to be ready to face the heavyweight behemoths knocking on his door.<\/p>\n<p>He is targeted to face Stipe Miocic later this year in what will be a title eliminator.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed MMA manager Ali Abdelaziz chimed in on the frequently talked about GOAT debate in MMA and shared his assessment. According to the head honcho over at Dominance MMA, Jon Jones shouldn\u2019t be helmed as the GOAT in the UFC. Abdelaziz talked about how Jon Jones had a couple of close fights towards the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":393949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}