Merab Dvalishvili<\/a> with 119, and 68 has former champ Rafael dos Anjos and former title challenger Demian Maia in 10th.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
Nurmagomedov wrapped his UFC career with 52 takedowns in 13 fights, which is a robust four per outing. Few would argue against that being an exceptional number.<\/p>\n
But what makes it a little bonkers is the fact Nurmagomedov got 40 percent of his total UFC takedowns in one three-round fight.<\/p>\n
At UFC 160 on May 25, 2013, Nurmagomedov had a lightweight fight with Abel Trujillo in Las Vegas. Tensions and a shove at the weigh-ins led to their separation, but when fight night arrived in the desert, it was a one-sided affair.<\/p>\n
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Nurmagomedov landed 21 takedowns in their three-round fight and cruised to a decision win. Those 21 set the standard, and it hasn’t been touched. In fact, the UFC record for a five-round fight is held by Dvalishvili \u2013 with 20. He had two more rounds and still is short of Nurmagomedov’s record.<\/p>\n
Take a look back at the ex-champ’s record-setting performance in the video above, as well as the photo gallery below.<\/p>\n
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: May 25, 2013, MMA history: Khabib sets takedown mark at UFC 160<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although he’s regarded as one of the most dominant grapplers in MMA history, Khabib Nurmagomedov doesn’t even chart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,253228,641,3627,231925,21903,638,253227,82,640],"class_list":["post-693584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-demian-maia","tag-fighting","tag-khabib-nurmagomedov","tag-lightweight-champion","tag-merab-dvalishvili","tag-mma","tag-rafael-dos-anjos","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}