UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor will decide Khabib Nurmagomedov’s combating future

Lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov impulsively announced his retirement following his UFC 254 title protection against Justin Gaethje. “The Eagle” seemingly walked away with an undefeated 29-0 file, but left the door birth for an octagon return when he recently met with UFC president Dana White.

“I belief, in his last combat, his father had passed away. He had been thru a lot. He had been a ways from his family for the length of that time, bought injured whereas he was as soon as coaching, and I belief that he made an emotional resolution. There was as soon as no motive to build a posthaste resolution devour that then. We didn’t must,” White mentioned for the length of Saturday’s UFC Fight Island 7 broadcast.

“He belief that (Charles) Oliveira seemed appropriate in his last combat against Tony Ferguson. So next Saturday, we bought the (Conor) McGregor and (Dustin) Poirier combat and (Michael) Chandler and (Dan) Hooker on there. So his phrases to me had been, ‘I’m going to switch searching these fights.’ He mentioned, ‘I would on no myth tie up the division. I would on no myth tie up the division, support the belt and have the belt a ways from any one else. These guys build one thing spectacular, present me one thing spectacular, and build me desire to come abet abet and combat,” White mentioned.

Nurmagomedov would possibly possibly well perchance furthermore no longer be in attendance for UFC 257. He’s anticipated to meet with White in Las Vegas the week after UFC 257 to build a final resolution on whether he’ll combat yet again.

“He’s corning on Wednesday and then he leaves. He leaves and goes to Vegas. So I will agree with the combat and movement home on Sunday and I’ll compare him yet again in Vegas,” White mentioned for the length of the UFC Fight Island 7 Put up-combat Press Convention.

“These fights can agree with played out. He and I are going to hook up and glide to dinner in Vegas and talk yet again and we’ll build a resolution. One facet that he did say is, ‘I’ll on no myth support up the division,’” mentioned the UFC president.

Whether or no longer Nurmagomedov competes yet again will be certain in his dinner meeting with White in Las Vegas. The resolution will in the ruin be Nurmagomedov’s.

“He appropriate mentioned that he won’t support up the division, so he’s either going to combat somebody, or he’s going to shuffle away,” White mentioned.