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Host, Lex Fridman Podcast; Research Scientist, MIT, Lex Fridman Podcast

Khabib vs Lex: Training with Khabib | FULL EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE

📅 Feb 25, 2026 Lex Fridman 22 MIN 996085 VIEWS 134 SEGMENTS · 13 SPEAKERS
In this video I'm training with Khabib Nurmagomedov, one of the greatest fighters of all time and a great human being. This was truly an honor for me 🙏 Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/mv577-sb See below for timestamps, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. CONTACT LEX: Feedback - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey AMA - submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama Hiring - join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring Other - other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact EPIS...

Questions asked in this interview

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  1. 0:45How are you, my friend? Как дела?
  2. 0:55I was like, is that Lex Fridman?
  3. 10:12Now beginning at this club, okay?
  4. 11:47Let's go, Lex! Now you understand?
  5. 13:57Why I have to force? Do you understand?
  6. 17:39Hip, hip, hip. Do you understand me?
  7. 21:57We work tomorrow. Yeah, we'll go together, right?
Lex Fridman 0:00 ↗
All right. We're training with Khabib today. One of the greatest fighters of all time. Great human being. It's unbelievable that I have the honor to be able to train with these guys today. I trained with the team yesterday as well. I feel a bit beat up. Actually, before this, I texted Georges, GSP, asking if he has any advice at all. I told him I'm training with Khabib. He said, 'If you die, you die.' 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 you tomorrow, so this is epic. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. So I know we're going to get back to training. Let's go.
Khabib Nurmagomedov 0:45 ↗
Yes, yes. How are you, my friend? Как дела?
Islam Makhachev 0:49 ↗
Ready?
Lex Fridman 0:50 ↗
Ready!
Ali Abdelaziz 0:51 ↗
It's my brother Khabib. He's my friend.
Lex Fridman 0:53 ↗
How are you doing, brother?
Speaker_2 0:55 ↗
I was like, is that Lex Fridman? Nice to meet you.
Lex Fridman 0:57 ↗
Thank you. Wait?
Khabib Nurmagomedov 0:59 ↗
Yes.
Ali Abdelaziz 0:59 ↗
Tomorrow training with him.
Lex Fridman 1:01 ↗
Okay.
Khabib Nurmagomedov 1:02 ↗
I wish he's in.
Ali Abdelaziz 1:03 ↗
Tomorrow in the morning, same energy.
Lex Fridman 1:05 ↗
Always got a smile.
UFC Embedded 1:18 ↗
You got some of the greatest of all time on the mat right now. Alex, Khabib, Amanda...
Khabib Nurmagomedov 1:22 ↗
Brother, talking is gonna win. Just be quiet and go to the mats.
He touched wrong leg.
Lex Fridman 2:16 ↗
That to touch which leg? I need to touch. Help me! Cheating.
Ali Abdelaziz 2:28 ↗
He tried to run like nothing. I hope his legs...
Lex Fridman 2:35 ↗
This is not gonna end well.
He is heavy.
Khabib Nurmagomedov 2:55 ↗
Let's go, Lex!
Speaker_5 2:57 ↗
Don't tap, Lex! Hold on, bud!
Lex Fridman 4:01 ↗
This shit is heavy. I can't do anything!
This right here, this pressure is fucking insane.
Khabib Nurmagomedov 5:02 ↗
Let me make him tired.
Ali Abdelaziz 5:04 ↗
If you don't get good research, you got to go on Google. But give me.
Lex Fridman 6:20 ↗
Do I have anything here or not? I feel like a white belt.
Ali Abdelaziz 6:33 ↗
What's your belt, brother?
Lex Fridman 6:35 ↗
Yeah, black belt.
Speaker_6 6:37 ↗
Jiu jitsu or sambo?
Lex Fridman 6:39 ↗
Jiu jitsu. Good point, good point.
Speaker_6 6:42 ↗
What's your belt?
Khabib Nurmagomedov 6:44 ↗
I'm a Master of Sports (International).
Speaker_6 6:46 ↗
Does Sambo have no belts?
Khabib Nurmagomedov 6:47 ↗
They have, they have levels. They have levels, not belts.
Lex Fridman 6:54 ↗
And you get them for competing. I can't do shit.
Ali Abdelaziz 7:03 ↗
I don't know, this guy is not going to try to submit you. He is going to make you suffer. You don't try to submit people. He just drown you, drown you, drown you. You're gonna be stressed.
Lex Fridman 7:43 ↗
John Smith. Low single.
Khabib Nurmagomedov 7:51 ↗
Let's go, Lex!
Ali Abdelaziz 8:04 ↗
First round, first round.
Khabib Nurmagomedov 8:09 ↗
No, we'll go five.
Speaker_N 8:10 ↗
Five minutes?
Khabib Nurmagomedov 8:11 ↗
Yes.
Lex Fridman 8:15 ↗
We'll be getting one more.
Khabib Nurmagomedov 8:18 ↗
Next time I'm gonna make you work. How are you feeling? Good?
Lex Fridman 8:26 ↗
I shouldn't have gone with him first.
Khabib Nurmagomedov 8:28 ↗
It's not about this.
Lex Fridman 8:33 ↗
It's just this?
Khabib Nurmagomedov 8:37 ↗
No. I'm heavy first of all.
Lex Fridman 8:39 ↗
Amazing training partner.
Khabib Nurmagomedov 8:41 ↗
No, no, but no injuries, no injuries. But the heavy. Stay heavy, stay heavy, stay heavy on you.
Lex Fridman 8:47 ↗
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Glover Teixeira 9:12 ↗
Can you give me a lesson?
Khabib Nurmagomedov 9:15 ↗
I'm here.
Glover Teixeira 9:16 ↗
All right.
Khabib Nurmagomedov 9:21 ↗
Try. Try.
Glover Teixeira 9:23 ↗
I try!
Khabib Nurmagomedov 9:26 ↗
It's OK, go!
Ali Abdelaziz 9:35 ↗
Okay, guys, finish, finish.
Speaker_6 9:40 ↗
Keep going, keep going.
Glover Teixeira 9:50 ↗
Amazing! Thank you.
Khabib Nurmagomedov 9:54 ↗
Thank you. Lex, we go again.
UFC Embedded 10:02 ↗
He's got to! Let's spar the champ.
Lex Fridman 10:09 ↗
Wrong leg. Wrong leg.
Ali Abdelaziz 10:12 ↗
Now beginning at this club, okay?
Khabib Nurmagomedov 11:47 ↗
Let's go. Let's go, Lex. Let's go, Lex! Now you understand?
Lex Fridman 12:16 ↗
Yeah.

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Fridman, L. (2026, February 25). Khabib vs Lex: Training with Khabib | FULL EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE [Interview transcript]. Lex Fridman. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3001593/

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Lex Fridman. "Khabib vs Lex: Training with Khabib | FULL EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE." Lex Fridman, 25 Feb. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3001593/.

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@misc{fridman2026_3001593,
  author       = {Lex Fridman},
  title        = {Khabib vs Lex: Training with Khabib | FULL EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Lex Fridman. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {feb},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3001593/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}