Khabib Nurmagomedov ruffled some feathers earlier this week when he disparaged Irish MMA.
Throughout an interview with the PFL, Nurmagomedov slammed the dearth of world-class fighters popping out of Eire, particularly mentioning Conor McGregor and Paul Hughes — who will problem Khabib’s cousin Usman Nurmagomdeov for the Bellator light-weight title on January 25 — as the one two price mentioning.
Whereas some have been fast to level out the apparent omission of surging welterweight contender Ian Machado Garry, former UFC fighter Darren Until snapped again on the Corridor of Famer for making an attempt to match Eire’s output of MMA expertise to Russia, a considerably bigger nation than The Emerald Aisle.
“I’ve at all times revered Khabib and his group lots they’re improbable fighters. However for him to sit down there and say fighters from Eire are low stage compared of sizes of nations and manufacturing. Eire is definitely approach forward Eire is so fucking small and Russia is so fucking large. Eire has produced wonderful fighters through the years. I’d mentioned simply over measurement and manufacturing of the nation Eire wins each time and this isn’t me being biased as a result of I’m neither mates with khabibs facet or irelands facet I’m simply stating my opinion.”
Chael Sonnen Corrects Until whereas commenting on Khabib’s criticism of Eire
Chiming in, former three-time UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen famous that Nurmagomedov didn’t evaluate Eire to Russia, however to Dagestan which is a republic within the Russian Federation.
“That’s not what he mentioned,” Sonnen replied. “RUSSIA was by no means talked about. He was clear to say Dagastan. Now i’ll step again, please proceed the FITE….”
Comparatively, Dagestan has a inhabitants of simply over three million whereas Eire has 5.2 million occupants.
Make of that what you’ll.
