When Elon Musk claimed to fight MMA with Mark Zuckerberg, many MMA boxers (have been playing) have accepted martial arts teaching to one of them. The rare boxer rejected the billionaire's invitation, Khabib Nurmadomedov. He also showed that he did not want to teach Mark Zuckerberg to fight martial arts like other colleagues.
From Khabib's decision, it can be seen that it seems that “Russian Eagle” wants to maintain the promise to withdraw from all activities related to MMA. Instead, he wants to care more than his family. The decision was made by Khabib at the end of last year, when he did not come to train the belt battle of Islam Makhachev.
While playing, Khabib was one of the most popular boxers of contemporary MMA. After retiring in the end of 2020, Khabib has a record of 29 matches (8 no, 11 submission). He used to play and win against the most abundant rivals in UFC in the Lightweight weight class like McGregor, Poirier and Gaethje.
Khabib decided to retire after the victory of Justin Gaethje at UFC 254. It was the time Khabib had just suddenly received the news of his father's death. The Russian boxer then moved to the training, but his working intensity still did not decrease at all compared to his competition. That is the reason why Khabib withdrew from MMA.
In the past, Khabib was also a controversial person when he underestimated the Jujitsu skill of many MMA boxers. Khabib appeared in front of the media with a shirt with the slogan “Sambo level easily called Jujitsu”. He is also a rare person to comment on the MMA movement of the world that tends to go down the past time.