Islam Makhachev gained’t transfer up an excessive amount of greater within the best of all time rankings even when he wins at UFC 322, says MMA legend Matt Brown.
On Saturday night time, Islam Makhachev will try to hitch a really unique group when he challenges Jack Della Maddalena for the UFC welterweight championship. If he wins, he’ll change into a two-weight UFC champion, and he’ll accomplish that in opposition to an opponent that many consider will trigger him lots of issues.
In fact, Islam Makhachev is already thought-about to be probably the greatest lightweights to ever do it, however in an effort to attain ‘GOAT’ standing and even come shut, you could do one thing significantly particular within the sport of combined martial arts.
In a current interview, Matt Brown weighed in on the place Islam Makhachev might be in these standings, in his thoughts, if he can get via JDM at MSG.
Matt Brown has attention-grabbing view on Islam Makhachev at UFC 322
“He’s the best light-weight of all-time,” Brown stated about Makhachev on the most recent episode of The Fighter vs. The Author. “I feel that’s just about set in stone. I feel that’s accomplished. I don’t know what this does for him when it comes to best of all-time kind factor or pound-for-pound or something. As a result of he’s already up there with all of that.
“He’s nonetheless obtained a protracted technique to go to be one of many all-time greats if you’re speaking concerning the Anderson Silva’s and the Jon Jones and folks like that. He’s obtained a protracted technique to go for that so you’ll be able to’t simply put him there but.
“The thought of being double champ accelerates that. You’ve obtained to maintain the profitable streak going as a result of that’s what the opposite guys did. I feel that’s the one situation there actually. You’ve obtained to have extra time within the recreation. So actually it simply form of solidifies the place he’s at proper now’s the place he belongs. He’s obtained to be prime three pound-for-pound proper? It’s not shifting him up a ton in my ebook [among the all-time greats], proper or mistaken.”
Quotes by way of MMA Fighting
