Current UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev on , he said that in a conversation with Khabib Nurmagomedov called his fight with American Dustin Poirier a more important event than the Champions League final Borussia (Dortmund) – Real Madrid (Madrid).
Makhachev, 32, will make his third belt defense at UFC 302 in Newark (USA, New Jersey) in a fight with Poirier on June 1. The final match of the Champions League will take place on the same day at Wembley Stadium in London.
— Are you going to watch the Champions League final?
– Maybe. All boys love football. Especially the big matches. Khabib said that because of my fight he would not reach the Champions League final. I replied that the Champions League final takes place every year, but the Makhachev-Poirier fight only happens once in a lifetime.
— Who is more likely to win: Poirier or Borussia?
– I don’t know. “Borussia, I think, has a 50/50 chance,” Makhachev said on .
Makhachev’s statistics in MMA are 25-1, the Russian fighter’s unbeaten streak in the UFC is 13 fights and lasts since September 2016. Poirier, 35, has 30 victories and eight defeats.
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