Khabib vs Lex: Training with Khabib | FULL EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE

All right, we're training with Khabib today, one of the greatest fighters of all time, a great human being. It's honestly unbelievable that I have the honor to be able to train with these guys today. I trained with the team yesterday as well. Feel a bit beat up. I, uh, actually, before this, texted George, GSP, asking if he has any advice.

I told him I'm training with Khabib. He said, uh, "If you die, you die." Uh, thank you very much for that advice, George. I love you, brother. You can tell on these mats, it has been champion after champion after champion. You can feel the history. I'm gonna do a podcast with Khabib tomorrow, so this is epic. I'm, uh, I'm the luckiest kid in the world, so...

All right, now we're gonna get back to training. Let's go.

Yes, yes. How are you, my friend?

Hey.

How you doing? This is my brother Khabib who own this hotel, and he's my friend.

Nice to meet you, brother. I was like, "Is that Lex Fridman?" Nice to meet you. Wait?

Yes.

Uh...

Brother, tomorrow training with him. You come. 8:00 in the morning. Yeah, same energy.

He's always got a smile. You got some of the greatest of all time on the mat right now. You got Alex, Khabib, Amanda.

Talking, he's gonna win. Just be quiet and go to the mats.

Ready? Ready? Go. Go, go, go, go. You touch wrong leg.

That? Which leg do I need to touch? Help me.

That's cheating.

So, so... He tried, he tried to run like... He tried to run like nothing. I hold his legs.

This is not gonna end well.

This is heavy.

Let's call it.

Don't tell, mate.

Hold on, man.

I can't

do it either.

This right here, this pressure is fucking insane.

No, no, no, no. It makes me not get tired. If you don't give your brother, he gonna go and do the podcast. He say, "Rogan is a bitch."

Can't breathe in here. Trapped.

Do you want me to sit here, sit near or sit up?

Mm.

I feel like a white belt.

What's your belt, bro? You're a black belt, right?

Yeah, black belt.

Jiu-jitsu or Sambo?

Jiu-jitsu.

Good point.

Sambo don't have belt.

Good point.

Sambo don't have belt.

They are a master of sport.

They have b- no, no belt, no belt.

They have, uh, they have, uh, levels.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

They have levels but not, not belts.

Did you get them for competing?

Yeah, certainly.

That was great.

Yeah, it was.

I told him these guys are gonna try to submit you. It's gonna make you suffer. You don't try to submit people. It's just ground, you ground, you ground.

It's like the pressure. It's like, like you're gonna be stressed, like the pressure, you know? Khabib will give you like, like pressure, you know, pressure, pressure, pressure. And you are like, "Lose the problem." You're like, "Ah, ah." Like me, I, I scream inside my brain.

John Smith, no single.

What?

First round. First round.

One and a half minute.

No, we go five.

Five minute?

Yes.

From beginning, one more. This time I'm gonna make you run. How is your knee? I, I shouldn't have gone with him today.

It's nothing serious.

That's good.

Was it just this?

Uh, no, I'm heavy, first of all.

Amazing training partner.

No, no, but no injury.

No injury.

No injury, but the heavy.

Just heavy.

Stay heavy, stay heavy, stay heavier.

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You wanna teach me some wrestle? Anything.

Huh?

I'm here.

All right. Oh, Chimaev. Ah.

Legend.

Try.

Oh.

Try.

I try.

It's okay, go.

Okay, guys, finish, finish. No, no finish.

Keep going, keep going. It's very good to see you brother. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks for go again.

That's got to. That's former champ.

Wrong leg. You need your wrong leg. Now beginning, hey, this glove, okay?

Nice. From the

top, you look much. Easy,

easy. Be careful. Finish up. Finish up.

Let's go. Let's go, Mitch. Let's go, Mitch.

Alex, you're fucking standing wrong. You're looking me.

No.

It's not a headlock.

You understand? Yeah. Squeeze with legs. Now, for example, you move, move. Don't go down.

It's all this. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing here.

That's it. Let's go. Let's go, bro. All right. Push him. Push him, push him, push him, push him. No, don't pull. Get here. Escape a leg. You understand? You understand? And I pull. Boom, boom. And you just go there. Or this one, but this one is better. But sometime when I wanna put... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go deep, deep.

Deep, deep, deep. You see? You see here. Just stay. Just stay. I don't need to do nothing. You have to... You have to spend your energy to get up. You understand? You have to. Why I have to force? You understand?

To make you work. To make you work.

I give you, I just fuck. I work, I work. Sometime he suspect grab me, do something.

Now I understand why people run.

Push, push. I feel like it's loud. 10X. 10X.

Push, push. Move, move, move, move. Because he gonna

run, and he gonna hit.

You grapple like wrestling match. This is not grappling.

Oh. Oh, no. Habib, look, look, look. Be careful. Be careful there. Be careful, son. Hey, be careful.

Okay, okay, stop. See, you grapple like wrestling. It's not wrestling. You cannot give your back all the time. Do you agree? You cannot grapple like that. It doesn't matter. No, it doesn't matter. You give your back. You give your back- There's so much pressure ... I never give him my back. I never give him my... You agree or no, Islam?

Agree or no? You cannot do this. I didn't give him my back. You gave him his back. You gave him his back. You can't tell, but the pressure in the hips is insane.

He's singing too.

Hip, hip, hip. You understand? Hip, hip. Push. Push.

Push. Watch it, watch it, watch it. Watch it. Hey, Marty, move. Move, move, move. Hey, move. He wants to hear us. Hey. Move, brother. He gonna hit you. Thank you so much. He gonna give you same position. You know, I want him feel pressure because I play, he play. He can play with anybody any time. But I go

I want show him little bit, uh, like pressure. You understand? Pressure. Uh, scramble after scramble, scramble after scramble, and I put him in my position there.

But you know what interesting? Many guys stop. You do never stop. You keep on going.

Oh, thank you.

You're not brother. You, you real one.

But, but, but he feel, he feel, he feel.

He feel, uh, psychologically too, I feel like.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

All my life with him. All my life I feel psychologically he want to give up. He don't give you tap. He don't tap you. He keep going. Sometime you tap, he said, "Start."

Mental is match. Mental is match.

Has anyone ever done that to you the last time?

Who's winner?

Maybe when you were a kid?

You know, since when I was, uh, 18, 19, I was, I wa- I always was against, uh, high level guys.

Yeah.

Because in my gym I have, uh, always high level guys with who I grew up.

Brother-

But the ground games-

So there always ground games

... brother, I know 12 years. This is true. I never see somebody passes guard or tap you.

Sometimes, sometimes in gym I just come, change clothes. Sometimes we go one and a half hour nonstop. One twenty, one ten, one hour, one and a half hour, more than one hour nonstop. Maybe changing four or five opponents. 10, 15 minute, another guy. 10, 15 minute, another guy.

And you keep going?

I keep going. I, I used to it, like, long time, long time.

And what happens to you mentally then?

Mentally in my mind I was, like, thinking how, how somebody can make me tire, make me tiring.

Oh, so you wanted to go on and on?

Keep going all my life. Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. That's it. Yeah, keep going.

You know, um, you know Dan Gable, the wrestler?

Uh-huh. Olympic champion?

Yeah, he, he said, he always said that in practice he wanted to go until he quits, and he never got there. He kept trying.

That's why he the best. He was Olymp- he is Olympic champion.

Olympic champion.

Yeah. I just come back from, uh, training camp.

Yeah.

I have training camp in Dubai.

Yeah.

I have 25 people. They know I every day I go morning and night, morning and night, and all are champions, big, big names. I know, like-

How you feel?

I love it. No, my body is very good.

Good.

My body feel very good. Sometime for some, sometime when I travel for one week-

Yes

... I feel so bad because I can only run and lift because there is no sparring partner.

Yeah.

And I miss it so much.

I could tell you still, you still love it.

I love it.

Like, I can feel it.

No, no, no, I love it.

It's awesome.

I love it. Now I'm gonna go with this one.

Oh, no. Oh, no.

Be careful. Be careful with this.

Be careful.

He

No.

He's not small guy anymore.

No, he feel like 280 pounds.

It's, it's incredible, man.

That's shooting around with Michael Jordan. It's Mi- it's shooting with Michael Jordan, yeah. One, it's like one on one basketball at night with Michael Jordan. Yeah, in the YMCA gym. Yeah, in the YMCA gym.

Thank you, brother. Thank you, brother. It was good job. It was good job. Tomorrow we work tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

This one. Yeah, we go together, right?

Yeah.