Thinking back to UFC to play in Khabib when he knew Conor McGregor would face Dustin Poirier. Khabib thinks he will return to McGregor if he “scandal” won. But in the end, McGregor lost that match and could not be up to now.
McGregor's failure seemed to make Khabib not think about the day of re -exporting the octagon. “Russian eagle” even decided to completely withdraw from MMA activities. He did not appear in the matches of Islam Makhachev as a coach anymore.
Khabib Nurmagomedov is 35 years old. He decided to retire in late 2020, after successfully defending the UFC Championship Lightweight before Justin Gaethje. Khabib's professional MMA competition is 29 wins (8 no, 11 Submisison). He is considered as one of the greatest MMA boxers.
The match between Khabib and McGregor took place in October 2018, when Khabib officially won the UFC championship, and McGregor was stripped of the belt. It was the Khabib match that defeated McGregor with strangling in the fourth half. Despite winning, Khabib received only $ 2 million from this match, less than McGregor 1 million USD.
Nearly 5 years have passed since the time Khabib encountered McGregor, but the two sides still spoke back. McGregor said Khabib was a “cowardly guy” because he was still retired soon at the peak, while the “Russian eagle” said McGregor was just a lot of talk and less as what he said.