Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2020-10-24, good fight between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Justin Gaethje: it gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night). Moreover this match took second place in the ‘Top 10 Mma Fights of the Year 2020‘ (ranking generated by our users).The undefeated black belt in judo, two time combat sambo world champion and Ufc Lw champ Khabib Nurmagomedov entered this fight with a perfect mma record of 28-0-0 (64% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.1 lightweight in the world. In his last three bouts he has won over Al Iaquinta (Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Al Iaquinta), Conor McGregor (Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Conor McGregor) and Dustin Poirier (Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Dustin Poirier). After the fight with McGregor, Khabib was suspended for nine months because, following his victory over the Irishman, he jumped the cage and charged toward McGregor’s cornerman Dillon Danis, who provoked Nurmagomedov with trash talk from outside the cage and then a brawl broke out between the two teams.
His opponent, the former Wsof Lw and current interim Ufc Lw champ Justin Gaethje, has an official record of 22-2-0 (91% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.2 in the same weight class. He lost two consecutive bouts between 2017 and 2018, against Eddie Alvarez (Eddie Alvarez vs Justin Gaethje) and Dustin Poirier (4-stars fight, Dustin Poirier vs Justin Gaethje), but then he has won four fights defeating Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone (Donald Cerrone vs Justin Gaethje) and Tony Ferguson in his last two (Tony Ferguson vs Justin Gaethje); in this last bout Ferguson was expected to face Khabib but the Russian had to pull out due to travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Gaethje vs Khabib, main event of the Ufc 254, is valid for the UFC lightweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review: 2014-04-19, high level of technique by both fighters but the fight was not so exciting: Rafael dos Anjos vs Khabib Nurmagomedov gets two stars. The black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu Rafael dos Anjos entered this fight with a professional mma record of 20-6-0 (50% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.7 lightweight in the world, he suffered his last defeat in 2011 when he faced Gleison Tibau (via split decision), since then he has fought and won five times.
