Michael Chandler, a top UFC lightweight, compared the promotion's former lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and Islam Makhachev.
"Khabib and Islam are similar," Chandler said. "They're brothers and teammates... Islam is good on his own. The way he dealt with Dan Hooker in a minute has established him as one of the top lightweights. But Makhachev still falls short of Nurmagomedov. He's only beaten a top-10 fighter for the first time, whereas Khabib has been doing it for years," Chandler said.
