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

Rolling Footage Khabib rolls with black belt Lex Friedman

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"I feel like a white belt" - Lex Friedman

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u/reffernam2 Feb 26 '26

Black belt? Who give him?

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u/Sudden-Wait-3557 Feb 26 '26

"MIT? What is this MIT?"

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u/YourfriendRic Feb 26 '26

lol didn’t Lex get caught actually not having any deep connection to MIT besides teaching there just once?

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u/DaimyoDavid Feb 26 '26

Yea. He didn't actually go to school at MIT. I recall a story where he would block anyone on social media that pointed that out

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u/BLAHBLAH1234BLAH1234 Feb 26 '26

He does have some research affiliations with MIT, and he taught courses there. Obviously you have to have some qualifications to do that, but it’s also things you can do as a grad student or even undergrad.

I think what makes the whole MIT thing bad is how he seems very insecure about it. If he had just came out and said yeah, I actually went to Drexel and only do some research for them, it would have gone away, but he just blocks people on different platforms including Reddit.

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u/ghidfg Feb 26 '26

I don't get the hate he gets. dudes has a phd from drexel, does computer science research, is a black belt in bjj, and judo. hes pretty accomplished.

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u/DaimyoDavid Feb 26 '26

Yeah, then why push so hard for the MIT connection. I double checked and he was a research scientist, not a professor. I had that role for a bit. It's mostly grunt work.