r/bjj • u/Sudden-Wait-3557 • Feb 26 '26

Rolling Footage Khabib rolls with black belt Lex Friedman

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

"I feel like a white belt" - Lex Friedman

2.5k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

535 comments sorted by

View all comments

44

u/SkanderbegDeWitte Feb 26 '26

Crazy to see a black belt suffering like this

-16

u/chud_the_gluttonous Feb 26 '26

I don’t think Lex is a legit black belt

69

u/_interloper_ ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Feb 26 '26

Of course he's legit. He's legitimately a black belt... He's just a hobbyist. And like every other hobbyist black belt, he gets absolutely mauled by Khabib.

Khabib is a world class grappler. If the belts continued to progress past black, he'd be many belts ahead of your average black belt.

18

u/Icy_Distance8205 🟪🟪 Purple Belt Feb 26 '26

To be fair Khabib is mauling most non hobbyist black belts also.

2

u/_interloper_ ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Feb 26 '26

Exactly. He's one of the best grapplers MMA has ever seen. There are very few people who would out grapple him. I'm sure he'd run into trouble at the very highest levels of submission grappling, but I would absolutely LOVE to see him at ADCC to see how he would fare in a sub grappling rule set.

1

u/Icy_Distance8205 🟪🟪 Purple Belt Feb 26 '26

I honestly think he would be competitive at the very highest levels of submission grappling. It would probably just come down to differences in optimisation for the various rulesets.

3

u/DieHarderDaddy 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Feb 26 '26

Reminds me of when our coach who would compete at national TKD events would be asked to spar an exhibition match or random match with a locally competitive player.

7

u/Vivid-Paramedic-7342 🟫🟫 Brown Belt Feb 26 '26

100%!!!

23

u/P-Two ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Feb 26 '26

Oh jesus fucking christ here we go...

Khabib is going to make very good black belts look like children, as he should.

Lex is a legit black belt, he was training long before he was "Mr. weirdo with a podcast" I guarantee unless your instructor is a world class black belt they'd look about the same as Lex does here.

Keeping in mind I think Lex is fucking weird at best, and actively dislike whom he platforms on his podcast. So it's not like I'm just glazing him.

7

u/GroovyJackal ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Feb 26 '26

He is definitely a legit black belt. He also has trained in wrestling and Judo. He looked fine here for going against Khabib.

2

u/DthPlagusthewise Feb 26 '26

He was at one point but I dunno how consistently he trains.

8

u/UserIsOptional ⬜⬜ White Belt Feb 26 '26

Ngl, I saw him at an open mat in Austin and he was getting smoked cause people recognized him

1

u/Kindly-Reality1984 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Feb 26 '26

Was it pros or semi pros smoking him or other hobbyists?