😳 🦅 Umar Nurmagomedov was brutally honest on why he’s not on Khabib’s level yet:
“Khabib could come home from a tough trip, arrive at 12 at night, change clothes, and go run. If he didn’t manage to get even one training session during the day, he would still hit pads at home at night.
The difference between us is that he gave all of himself to this. And we don’t. You have to be honest.
At 12 at night, I can force myself to go run maybe 5 times out of 10, because I think: ‘He did it. He went. He worked. So I must, if I want to achieve something.’
He was fanatical about training.
Maybe also because the Almighty gave him this physical strength.
In the gym, everything works for me — I can control guys, I can go for submissions. But in the cage, he (Khabib) is psychologically much stronger than me. And in the cage I feel like something is missing. I’ll keep striving."
via @ufc press conference
Imagine telling an American citizen in the early 2000’s that there would be a Muslim whose first name is literally Islam and he’d be fighting in the same city that got hit with one of the planes .
Islam Makhachev wants to fight Ilia Topuria at the White House 👀🔥
"He wants to fight in White House, I also want to be there. It's gonna be big fight for MMA community. If UFC want this fight, we can do this.
Which fight gonna be bigger than this?"
(via @espnmma)
🚨#UFC322 is the only card in history where BOTH the main and co-main event challengers vacated their titles to pursue double-champion status in a higher weight class.
@TaylorJohn41431 It be niggas who have never stepped foot in an octagon that have the audacity to call another man a “quitter” for not rewarding a dumbass opponent by continuing to fight while completely compromised …
Some of yall are more mad at aspinall for “quitting”, rather than being mad at gane for fucking violating his eye sockets in the first place …. Make it make sense