If Belal

[andgonsil]

Beats Leon, Shavkat and Islam

and then retires

Where would you place him among the goats?

 

[moosaev]

#1

I would absolutely laugh my ass off if that happened lol. Especially if they were all boring point wins. The melt downs would be epic.

 

[JohnMandick]

That can't be more than one GOAT, so I'd place him at #stupidthread.

 

[Jin Akutsu]

I want them all to be by controversial split decisions on top of that. The salt would be glorious.

 

[humdizzle]

i think on the 0.000001% chance that does happen. people would still figure out ways to discredit him. opponent had bad weight cut, islam didn't want to kill a fellow muslim brother, shakvat was distracted by Sanko.

 

[flektarn]

Can't call someone so boring a GOAT.
But it would be a hell of a run.

 

[NicholasJBasile]

He'd be up there for sure and I'd laugh at all the fans he upsets

 

[ultra321]

He would be right up there with Jon Fitch

 

[Davidjacksonjones]

Would need much more defenses to be among the goats

 

[TriangleMonkey]

I hope he beats MM’s defense record with nothing but snoozer ass split-decisions after decisioning the hell out of Leon

 

[BJJ4Tone]

This thread is the GOAT

 

[dipstickjimmy]

Beats Leon, Shavkat and Islam

and then retires

Where would you place him among the goats?

Why is Islam in your list? Can we as MMA fans stop "Normalizing" champs fighting smaller weight class fighters as part of their legacy. If he beats Leon, Shavkat and DDP or Izzy then I will be left amazed.

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

Why is Islam in your list? Can we as MMA fans stop "Normalizing" champs fighting smaller weight class fighters as part of their legacy. If he beats Leon, Shavkat and DDP or Izzy then I will be left amazed.

He goes up and beats Izzy

 

[Conor Strickland]

He'd be number 2 as Jones is obviously number 1 as the GOAT

 

[kingmob6]

He goes up and beats Izzy

he needs to hump izzy and then goat status

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

He'd be number 2 as Jones is obviously number 1 as the GOAT

Belal starts roiding

 

[KungFuFoo]

belel gonna eat!

 

[BangBang]

Beats Leon, Shavkat and Islam

and then retires

Where would you place him among the goats?

LMFAO

 

[RonDante]

If he beat all of those people, then his resume would be

Demian Maia
Stephen Thompson
Vicente Luque
Sean Brady
Gilbert Burns
Leon Edwards
Shavkat Rakhmonov
Islam Makhachev

Only 3 losses, his debut, avenged loss to luque and geoff neal

That puts him up there, definitely ahead of usman in the welterweight all times, and maybe top 10 all time

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

Beats Leon, Shavkat and Islam

and then retires

Where would you place him among the goats?

This is a more than reasonable premise, and thread.

Not sure why folks are having hissy fits and hating on it.

I mean, would be comparable to Khabib's career, no?