Khabib vs Lex: Training with Khabib | FULL EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE
Lex Fridman
0:00 [Lex] All right.
0:00 We're training with the Khabib today.
0:02 One of the greatest fighters of all time.
0:04 Great human being.
0:06 It's unbelievable that I have the honor
0:07 to be able to train with these guys today.
0:09 I trained with the team yesterday as well.
0:13 I feel a bit beat up.
0:15 I, actually before this texted Georges,
0:17 GSP asking if he has any advice at all I told him I'm training with Khabib.
0:22 He said, “If you die, you die.” Thank you very much for that advice, George.
0:28 I love you, brother.
0:29 You can tell on these mats.
0:31 has been champion after champion after champion.
0:33 You can feel the history.
0:34 I'm gonna do a podcast with you tomorrow, so this is epic.
0:38 I'm, I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
0:41 So I know we're going to get back to training.
0:43 Let's go.
0:45 [Khabib] yes yes, how are you my friend"Какдела" [Islam] Ready?
0:50 [Lex] Ready!
0:51 [Ali] It's my brother Khabib he's my friend [Lex] How are you doing, brother?
0:55 [Speaker_2] I was like, is that Lex Fridman?
0:56 Nice to meet you.
0:57 [Lex] Thank you.
0:58 Wait?
0:59 [Khabib] Yes [Ali] Tomorrow training with him.
1:01 [Lex] Okay.
1:02 [Khabib] I wish he's in.
1:03 [Ali] Tomorrow in the morning, same energy [Lex] Always got a smile.
1:18 [UFC Embedded] You got some of the greatest of all time on the mat right now.
1:20 Alex, Khabib, Amanda...
1:22 [Khabib] Brother, talking is gonna win.
1:24 Just be quiet and go to the mats.
2:14 He touched wrong leg.
2:16 [Lex] That to touch which leg?
2:18 I need to touch.
2:19 Help me!
2:22 Cheating.
2:28 [Ali] He tried to run like nothing.
2:30 I hope his legs...
2:35 [Lex] This is not gonna end well.
2:51 [Lex] He is heavy [Khabib] Let’s go, Lex!
2:57 [Speaker_5] Don’t tap, Lex!
2:59 Hold on, bud!
4:01 [Lex] This shit is heavy I can’t do anything!
4:59 [Lex] This right here, this pressure is fucking insane.
5:02 [Khabib] Let me make him tired.
5:04 [Ali] If you don't get good research, you got go on Google.
5:07 But give me.
6:20 [Lex in Russian] Do I have anything here or not?
6:29 [Lex] I feel like a white belt.
6:33 [Ali] What’s your belt, brother?
6:35 [Lex] Yeah, black belt.
6:37 [Speaker 6] Jiu jitsu or sambo?
6:39 [Lex] Jiu jitsu.
6:40 [Lex] Good point, good point.
6:42 [Speaker 6 to Khabib] What’s your belt?
6:44 [Khabib in Russian] I’m a Master of Sports (International)
6:46 [Speaker 6 to Khabib] Does Sambo have no belts?
6:47 [Khabib] they have, they have, levels.
6:50 they have levels, not belts.
6:54 [Lex] And you get them for competing.
6:57 I can’t do shit.
7:03 [Ali] I don't know, this guy is not going to try
7:05 to submit you He is going to make you suffer.
7:07 You don't try to submit people.
7:08 He just drown you drown you drown you
7:14 [Ali] you're gonna be stressed [Lex] John Smith.
7:44 Low single.
7:51 [Khabib] Let’s go, Lex!
8:04 [Ali] First round, First round [Khabib] No, we'll go five.
8:10 [Speaker N] Five minutes?
8:11 [Khabib] Yes [Lex] We'll be getting one more.
8:18 [Khabib] Next time I’m gonna make you work.
8:23 How are you feeling?
8:24 Good?
8:26 [Lex] I shouldn't have gone with him first [Khabib] It’s not about this.
8:33 [Lex] It’s just this?
8:37 [Khabib] No.
8:37 I'm heavy first of all [Lex] Amazing training partner.
8:41 [Khabib] No, no, but no injuries,no injuries.
8:42 [Lex] No injuries [Khabib] But the heavy.
8:44 [Lex] Just heavy.
8:45 [Khabib] Stay heavy, stay heavy, stay heavy on you.
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9:09 Now back to training with Khabib.
9:12 [Glover] Can you give me a lesson?
9:15 [Khabib] I’m here.
9:16 [Glover] Alright [Khabib] Try.
9:22 Try [Glover] I try!
9:26 [Khabib] It’s OK, go!
9:35 [Ali] Okay, guys, finish, finish.
9:40 [Speaker_6] Keep going, keep going.
9:50 [Glover] Amazing!
9:53 Thank you.
9:54 [Khabib] Thank you.
9:59 Lex, we go again.
10:02 [UFC Embedded] He's got to!
10:04 Let’s spar the champ.
10:09 [Lex] “Wrong leg.” “Wrong leg.” [Ali] Now beginning at this club, okay?
11:47 [Khabib] Let's go.
11:54 Let's go, Lex.
11:55 Let’s go, Lex!
12:15 Now you understand?
12:16 [Lex] Yeah.
12:17 [Khabib] Squeeze with legs.
12:19 Now, for example, you move.
12:22 Move [Khabib in Russian] Give me your hand.
12:27 [Lex] It's all this.
12:28 [Khabib] Yeah.
12:30 [Lex] Nothing here.
12:35 [Khabib] Understand?
12:39 [Khabib] Let’s go, brother.
12:48 [Khabib] Let’s go, Lex.
13:13 [Khabib] This in..
13:16 I hook...
13:18 No, don’t pull look here And I pull Boom.
13:26 Boom.
13:28 [Lex] And you just pull that.
13:29 [Khabib] Or this one.
13:31 But this one is better.
13:32 But sometimes when I want to put...
13:35 [Lex] Yeah, yeah, yeah...
13:53 [Khabib] Just stay here.
13:56 [Lex] Just stay.
13:57 [Khabib] I don't need to do nothing.
13:59 You have to.
14:00 You have to spend your energy to get up.
14:02 You understand?
14:04 Why I have to force?
14:21 Do you understand?
14:22 I make you work.
14:23 [Khabib] I’ll make you work!
14:35 [Lex] Now I understand why people run.
16:09 [Khabib] Let's go, let's go, let's go.
16:11 move move move, Magdi Magdi, move!
16:37 [Ali to Magdi] You grapple like it’s a wrestling match.
16:39 This is not grappling.
16:43 [Speaker_3] Oh, no.
16:44 Khabib look, look, [Khabib] be careful be careful Be careful, Islam.
16:52 Hey.
16:52 Be careful.
17:08 [Lex] It’s so much pressure.
17:11 shit...
17:29 You can't tell with the pressure in the hips is insane.
17:34 He’s singing too.
17:39 [Khabib] Hip, hip, hip.
17:40 Do understand me?
17:41 Hip.
17:42 Push push.
18:02 [Lex] I mean you asked for viewers!
18:06 [Lex] Thank you, brother.
18:07 [Khabib] Thank you so much.
18:10 You know, I want him to feel pressure.
18:13 Because I play he play.
18:15 Yeah, I can play with anybody, anytime, but I go.
18:20 I want to show him a little bit,
18:22 like pressure you understand, Scramble after scramble,
18:27 scramble after scramble, and I put him in my position,
18:30 [Ali] But you know what interesting?
18:31 Many guys stop.
18:32 You do never stop.
18:33 You keep going.
18:34 [Khabib] Good, it’s good, brother.
18:35 [Ali] You're my brother, You're a real one.
18:37 [Lex] It’s an honor, man.
18:38 [Khabib] But, he feel, he feel.
18:39 [Lex] I feel it psychologically too.
18:40 I felt in a low place.
18:42 [Khabib] Yeah.
18:43 [Ali] All my life, I feel psychologically, Like I want to give up.
18:49 He don't give you a tap.
18:50 He don’t tap you.
18:51 You keep going.
18:52 Sometimes you tap, it's reset, start.
18:53 [Khabib] Mentally smash Mentally smash [Lex] Has anyone ever done that to you?
19:00 The last time [Khabib] With me, no.
19:02 [Lex] Maybe when you're a kid.
19:05 [Khabib] You know, since when I was, 18, 19,
19:09 I was, I always was against, high level guys.
19:13 [Lex] Yeah.
19:13 [Khabib] Because in my gym, I have, always high level guys.
19:16 This who I grew up the ground game.
19:19 [Lex] So they're always...
19:20 [Ali] Brother I learned 12 years.
19:21 This is true.
19:22 I have never seen anyone pass his guard or tap him.
19:26 [Khabib] Sometimes.
19:26 Sometimes in gym, I just come change clothes.
19:30 Sometimes we'll go 1.5 hour nonstop.
19:35 One 20, one 10, one hour, one and a half other, more than one hour.
19:38 Non-stop.
19:39 Maybe changing four or five opponents.
19:42 10-15 minutes, another guy, 10-15 minutes.
19:44 [Lex] You keep going, [Khabib] I keep going, I used to play too long.
19:49 Long.
19:50 [Lex] And what happens to you mentally?
19:52 [Khabib] Mentally, In my mind, I was like,
19:54 thinking how somebody can make me tired.
19:58 [Lex] I see you wanting to go on and...
20:00 [Khabib] Keep going.
20:01 All my life, keep going, keep going.
20:06 [Lex] You know Dan Gable wrestler?
20:08 [Khabib] Yeah.
20:09 Olympic champion.
20:10 [Lex] Yeah!
20:10 He he said, he always said in practice he wanted to go until he quits.
20:14 He never got there.
20:16 He kept trying.
20:17 [Khabib] That's why he's the best.
20:18 he's Olympic champion.
20:20 [Lex] Yeah Olympic champion.
20:20 [Khabib] I just come back from, training camp.
20:22 I have training camp in Dubai.
20:24 I have 25 people they know.
20:25 They know, every day I go, morning and night, and all the champions.
20:31 Big, big names.
20:31 [Lex] How do you feel?
20:33 [Khabib] I love it.
20:34 My body is very good.
20:35 My body feel very good.
20:37 sometime for some...
20:39 Sometime when I travel for one week.
20:40 Yes.
20:41 I feel so bad because I go on the run
20:43 and lift Because there is no sparring partner.
20:46 [Lex] And I miss it so much.
20:48 [Lex] I could tell you still love it [Khabib] I love it [Lex] I can feel it.
20:51 [Khabib] No no no no, I love it.
20:52 [Lex] Awesome.
20:52 [Khabib] But no, no I'm gonna go...
20:54 Now I'm gonna go to this.
20:55 Be careful, be careful with this.
20:57 [Khabib in Russian] You’re giving that away every single time.
20:58 be careful, hey, eh, eh.
21:01 [Camera guy] A lot of pressure?
21:02 [Lex] You know, it's a lot of pressure, but it's a huge honor, man.
21:04 [Magdi] I'll just say one thing.
21:06 This witness, this witness, when I go with him he don't let me get up.
21:11 I'm all the time in this position.
21:28 [Glover] It's no way out.
21:39 [Ali] He is not small guy anymore.
21:41 [Glover] Oh, he feel like 280 pound.
21:44 [Lex] It's incredible man.
21:46 [UFC Embedded] That's shooting around on Michael Jordan.
21:48 [Lex] It's shooting with Michael Jordan, yeah.
21:50 It's like one-on-one basketball at night with Michael
21:54 Jordan [UFC Embedded] Yeah In the YMCA.
21:56 [Lex] Yeah.
21:56 In the YMCA.
21:57 [Khabib] Thank you brother Thank you.
21:59 Good job.
22:01 tomorrow.
22:02 We work tomorrow.
22:05 Yeah, we'll go together, right?
22:06 [Lex] Yeah.