Why is Khabib such a hero to Muslims?

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Right. Let's speak a bit about Khabib. I had mentioned we're going to speak about Khabib is doing it. Doing it. Right. That's it. His surname I always struggle with his surname. [laughter] Right. So, um I'm not particularly into watching many sports, but he is more than a sportsman.

Khabib is a phenomenon and I say this because you see Muslims in this day and age because we're kind of downtrodden we need Muslims feel that they need whether they do need or not is questionable but there's a they feel they need a hero and here comes a person who's not, you know, an archetype of your average Muslim who is assumed to be brown and from the Middle East or from

India or, you know, black, you know, or, you know, this is the archetype, you know, this is your typical perception of a Muslim. He's somebody from Russia, you know, that kind of you don't really picture to be Muslim. And then he comes along and he uh somebody said his actual name is Hhabib N Muhammadav.

Uh is it okay? Wow. Okay. That his surname is N Muhammad. Okay. I didn't know that. I just knew it how it is said. I knew that Hhabib was Khabib was Habib. I knew that. Yes. But not the N Muhammad part. So here comes this person and he is absolutely amazing at what he does. I, you know, as somebody who's not even into the sport as in watching, I don't watch uh I just don't find I don't seem to I'm weird like that.

I don't seem to have an interest in watching sport uh of any nature. I just don't find it interesting. Now, I'll watch highlights of boxing matches if they're popular or highlights of UFC, but I'm not interested in following it. So, but [snorts] he is an absolute, you know, a master practitioner of his art. I mean, the guy is he's a beast.

He's ruthless. I mean, you just think, "Wow." Okay. I watched the highlights of his recent fight and he just wow. The other guy, Gachi or what whatever his name is, who was apparently meant to be somebody epic and yet he just, you know, he second round it's over.

But but what I want what but what I'm more uh int or in intrigued by is the phenomenon. You see because what he does is he proudly wears his Islam. So he'll say alhamdulillah inshallah and you know thanks to Allah and these things obviously in an age where Islam is downtrodden in in an age of Islamophobia these things give immense [laughter]

they bring relief I guess to many Muslims and I think that part is understandable. And it is wow you know it is very a person does they identify with it and that to you're for once identifying with the world champion who's undefeated you know and I don't you know he's not a very big person when you think about it you know he's not somebody like physically such a beast I'm sure he he's been up against people much you know bigger although they're the same weight division but bigger than him but yet he's this undefeated beast

of a fighter. But yeah, I feel that um that he is a phenomenon because he kind of represents that he gives pride to people who are Muslim and he's resigned uh undefeated although I he he says well the [laughter] uh the reason is because he's promised his mother and he's true to his word and um and I think people some people kind of found that amusing and yeah I mean I don't know maybe it's just because he's beat everybody in his division and he thinks well what the hell but yeah I I I

think that's something to people find as you know they find some solace in that and there's nothing wrong with that because Muslims everywhere you see them they're beaten and here is a person who's a legend and he's uh he holds the title and he uh is a Muslim and he proudly says he he says I know this upsets you but I'll say it alhamdulillah Uh [laughter]

[gasps] so yeah I I absolutely I rate that that he's very confident about his faith even being Russian being confident about your faith because one must remember that Russia probably gives much less rights to being Muslim as the West does. You know you can openly be a Muslim here but in Russia you could be seen as a traitor. And I think the fact that he despite that he openly wears his Islam is very um admirable.

So I uh I do admire him. I think he's he's amazing uh in that sense. It's funny as well because his his accent makes him much funnier than he's trying to be. He's not trying to be funny, but his accent makes him funny. [laughter] It's like when he jumped over the cage and he's like um and I I'm pretty sure he got into trouble for that but he he's like and then he gives a press conference which is just after that and he's like why everybody still talk about the me jumping over cage why everybody he he attacked bus why you still talk about [laughter] and you're thinking well because it just

happened mate [laughter] but I think the accent makes it much funnier and I I think with the whole thing of um McGregor, I think he just took it way too personal. You know, Khabib, I think that McGregor was just doing it because he's just creating a hype. You know, that's what you got to do for showbiz. Uh and I think the thing about McGregor is that he's just really witty. And I think most people are not witty anyway.

You take most people, they're not actually very witty on the spot. And then you get people who are fighters and and I think they're generally a bit slower than your average kind of person be, you know, you get this kind of archetype, I suppose, of you know, somebody who's just a fighter and and and even if they weren't, they were just normal. McGregor seems to be incredibly witty.

So, it's difficult having comebacks. You know, anything you say will immediately spin it. And uh obviously he brought that whole kind of that clout to this UFC. You know, he did that whole thing I suppose what Muhammad Ali did except added all the swearing and the insults and teasing people and really making them get angry and so and I think that's what he did to Khabib.

Khabib obviously took it as you know that that Bollywood dush money dushman Dman Dman [laughter] 20 years later I'll get you back. So yeah but cool I wanted to say some words about that because he has unquestionably become a hero and I think that that he is definitely he is a legend I have to say. I've watched some of his fighting thing and I thought, "Whoa, this guy is he's [laughter] he's a beast." So, yeah.

Cool. Let's uh Somebody said he'll become a fighter for the for the Chetchin. I don't know about that. I think that would just ruin his image. Right. So, yeah, somebody said it sells, Mui. It does. That's what the thing is because uh it sells. You know what McGregor did is sold the industry. He just gave the industry a hype.

Right? Let's move on. Speaking of Islam, the media, everything, where did I have that? Oh, before I go uh move on to that about France, this was something about [laughter] [gasps] about the eagle himself, Khabib.

Amir Khan had just tweeted, but he just literally copied and pasted [laughter] what Sony uh Bill Williams had tweeted literally word for word. I mean, that's just crazy. I thought, [laughter] what the hell, man? That was funny. These people,