UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev in an interview with , he spoke about the teams meeting Khabib Nurmagomedova And Conor McGregor in the summer of 2015 in Las Vegas.
On June 1 in Newark, Makhachev, 32, will defend his UFC lightweight belt in a fight with Dustin Poirier . In October 2018, Makhachev’s teammate and runner-up Khabib Nurmagomedov defended his championship belt in a fight with McGregor and after the fight he provoked a massive brawl with the Irish fighter’s runners-up, to which Makhachev also participated.
— In 2015, Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov assisted you during a fight in America. In my opinion, it was his first fight as a trainer in a UFC fighter’s corner. He told us the story of how Conor and Khabib’s teams met in the gym, and Khabib competed with Conor’s coach during a drill. Do you remember this moment?
— Yes, yes, we trained in Las Vegas back then, it was the UFC gym where they usually film the TUF show. Conor trained at the same gym. He wasn’t that popular back then. And I remember our late coach and his trainer started arguing about an exercise, I don’t remember what kind of exercise it was, but there was something like that.
— Did Khabib and Conor’s fitness trainer compete?
– I won’t lie, I don’t remember exactly. Or Khabib, or Abdulmanap himself.
— Did I understand correctly that it was this incredible time when your team and Conor’s team could be in the same room?
– Yes, that’s probably the only time we were in the same room with the teams and communicated like that.
I remember I was there, and he was there, his whole team was there. He was preparing for, I don’t remember who (Conor McGregor was supposed to fight Jose Aldo, later replaced by Chad Mendes at UFC 189 on July 11, 2015 – ed.) And so were we. Honestly, I don’t remember who fought with whom, but there were about 10-15 of us in the United States at that time,” Makhachev told .
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