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If UFC president Dana White needs to coax Khabib Nurmagomedov back into the Octagon, there’s one matchup available that will also compose the trick.
Requested by ESPN’s Brett Okamoto what form of scenario would hobby Nurmagomedov in ending his retirement, manager Ali Abdelaziz didn’t should always train too laborious.
“I train the one thing that will plot Khabib loopy, plot Dana loopy and plot everyone loopy. I train if Georges St-Pierre picked up the phone and called Dana White and he acknowledged ‘I’m going to plot 155 pounds,'” Abdelaziz acknowledged. “And I if fact be told love Georges St-Pierre, everyone is aware of how extraordinary I if fact be told love Georges St-Pierre, nevertheless Georges St-Pierre, he’s fidgeting with us additionally on memoir of he keeps doing interviews and he is aware of what he’s doing.”
Nurmagomedov final defeated Justin Gaethje in a light-weight unification bout on October 24 sooner than announcing he modified into once stepping away from the game.
The Russian big title acknowledged he couldn’t proceed his occupation with out his father, who died on July 3 after contracting COVID-19.
At 32 years passe, Nurmagomedov finished his occupation with a sterling 29-0 (8 KOs), having defeated some of the most sport’s most efficient together with Conor McGregor, Dustin Poirier and Al Iaquinta. Nonetheless he modified into once never ready to position a bout with St-Pierre, the 2020 UFC Hall of Status inductee.
“I if fact be told feel this battle never took situation on memoir of Georges never committed to 155 pounds,” Abdelaziz acknowledged.
St-Pierre, 39, final fought at UFC 217 in 2017, defeating Michael Bisping through third-spherical submission.
Nurmagomedov has previously called out St-Pierre publicly to no avail whereas White stated his option for certainly one of his sport’s most iconic fighters to stay at welterweight.
It may perchance likely likely steal a notable weight reduction from St-Pierre and a contract too factual to turn down for either to conform to a bout at this level, nevertheless Abdelaziz needs UFC to grasp his fighter would no longer lower than take model to a proposal.
