Bellator lightweight champion Usman Nurmagomedov told how he helped Khabib Nurmagomedov prepare for the last defense of the belt in the UFC.
Usman was the main sparring partner of the UFC champion during the preparation for the tournament in October 2020. For Khabib, this fight was the third defense of the lightweight belt, after which Nurmagomedov announced his retirement.
— You were one of the main sparring partners before Khabib’s fight with Justin Gaethje (Khabib Nurmagomedov’s last fight in his career, 2020, “”).
– Yes. It was hard, it was hard for me at the time.
– Very difficult?
—How will it be for you, hard or not, when a tank crushes you?
— This is where the final attack began, Khabib recovering a low kick, moving it and choking it…
—We succeeded, of course. He prepared this.
—Did you know he would retire after the fight?
– No I did not know. But when I saw him take off his gloves, I realized he was leaving his career.
— Does he call often now?
– Every day. Yesterday I wrote, today. He asks what the weight is, how the preparation is going. It gives me the amount of work I have to do,” Nurmagomedov Jr. told .
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Source : MatchTV
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