UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev explained how the former belt holder would help him Khabib Nurmagomedov preparing for his title defense against the Brazilian Charles Oliveira .
Makhachev and Oliveira will fight again for the UFC lightweight belt at a tournament in Abu Dhabi on October 21. The Russian became champion in a fight with Oliveira, which took place on October 22 last year. Makhachev won by submission in the second round.
– He will arrive tomorrow and train with us at camp. He won’t be my coach in the area, but he will be there to help me… We come here, around forty people, the whole team. I don’t know where he will be on fight day, but he will be there for the next two weeks.
I miss the times when we trained together, when he fought, I fought. But when he became coach, about two years ago, he put a lot of pressure on us, you know? We did training, the fight lasted almost 10 rounds. And after all that work, an hour and a half later, he says, “Okay, now there are five rounds of combat. »
We never did that when we trained together. Now that he’s a trainer, he thinks he’s not tired because he puts everyone in the cage, and after the fight he says, “Let’s do some grappling,” he changes his clothes and fights against us for five more rounds. Then we did push-ups, planks and more. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but everyone is excited. He will watch the fight and train with us. “He loves to train, he does it every day,” MMA Mania quotes Makhachev in reference to ESPN.
Oliveira is a former UFC lightweight champion, previously held by Nurmagomedov.
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