🙏 👀 Umar Nurmagomedov asked fans to not "feel sorry" for him after being knocked out by Song Yadong yesterday:
"Alhamdulillah, I’m doing very well. Thank you to everyone who reached out to me, made dua for me, and showed me so much love and support.
But please, don’t feel sorry for me. It was just a fight. Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. I’m completely healthy and I’m okay. I’ll learn from this, come back stronger, and one day, InshaAllah, become a champion.
I ask everyone who has shown me so much sympathy and concern to direct that same energy toward helping the children and families of Gaza. They have been enduring genocide and unimaginable suffering for far too long. They are the ones who truly need our voices, support, prayers, and dua.
To all my fans, I ask you: keep talking about them, keep praying for them, and keep supporting them.
Once again, thank you all for your love and support. InshaAllah, I’ll come back stronger."
Max Holloway brought out ALL his belts after Islam Makhachev said he doesn’t know how heavy two belts feel. 😭
"I ain't taking it back, that's just how I felt. Don't you ever come for my neck and tell me I don't know how heavy it feels"
Via: @BlessedMMA
🏆People forget, but Islam Makhachev had to dig deep to win fights many times in his career.
He had a tough fight with Chris Wade at the beginning of his UFC career, a close fight with Arman Tsarukyan, and had wars in his title fights with Volkanovski and Poirier, tough fight with Ian Machado Garry.
Even before the UFC, there were a few times when it looked like Islam could almost lose a fight. He was never invincible, and that makes him more human. Just a guy with good jokes and a kind heart who happened to be thebestfighterintheworld.
He can’t be compared to Khabib. That was a level of dominance we might never see again.
While they’re telling you to put more beans in your beef so you can afford to make burritos for your family, remember the Israeli lobby spent $30 million to take me out of Congress because I wouldn’t vote for the things that have made your grocery bills so high.
Usman Nurmagomedov just became one of the hottest free agents in MMA history after that performance.
Absolutely dominated the previously undefeated Archie Colgan and made it look easy.
Islam Makhachev has 10 finishes during his current 16 fight win streak, 8 during his last 10 fights, and 4 finishes in 6 title fights.
Anyone who unironically believes that Islam is a "boring fighter" should quit watching the sport immediately.
At least 20 people have been killed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir after security forces fired guns and tear gas at people protesting over regional elections.
Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder reports.
🚨SHEIKH FAROUQ WAS EXECUTED
In new footage from the pogrom yesterday in Tell, Martyr Sheikh Farouq can be seen walking around unarmed after neutralizing at least one settler terrorist. That means Farouq laid down his weapon after neutralizing the immediate threat, and was later executed WHILE UNARMED.
The settler filming can be heard yelling to the soldiers to shoot everyone. When his friend tells him to drop it, because they're already shooting, he responds that they're shooting only because he keeps yelling at them.
The footage was published by Elisha Yered, a leading settler terrorist and the former spokesperson for MK Limor Son Har Melech (Jewish Power). He meant to show how the army was supposedly "soft" for not murdering Sheikh Farouq immediately.
It has now been around 1,100 days since my father, Imran Khan, was imprisoned, and my brother and I haven’t heard his voice since March. For months, we’ve been denied contact with him. We remain in the dark about his access to healthcare as his eyesight continues to deteriorate. He urgently needs medical attention, and with no family or legal access, we don’t even get any second hand information or reassurance.
I’ve found myself especially missing him recently. I want to speak to him about mundane things like my cricket, books I’ve been reading and what new movies are good. I understand the people of Pakistan want their chosen leader free, but I miss my father more than ever.
But this is not just about a father. It is about Pakistan, and its future. A rigged, authoritarian regime continues to crush political opposition, undermine democratic institutions, and deny millions of Pakistanis their right to freely choose their leaders, whilst terrorising those who speak their beliefs.
I once again plea to the international community to not look away. Silence in the face of injustice only enables it.