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 value mentioning.
Whereas some had been fast to level out the plain omission of surging welterweight contender Ian Machado Garry, former UFC fighter Darren Until snapped again on the Corridor of Famer for attempting to check Eire’s output of MMA expertise to Russia, a considerably bigger nation than The Emerald Aisle.
“I’ve always respected Khabib and his team a lot they are fantastic fighters. But for him to sit there and say fighters from Ireland are low level in comparison of sizes of countries and production. Ireland is actually way ahead Ireland is so fucking small and Russia is so fucking big. Ireland has produced amazing fighters over the years. I would said just over size and production of the country Ireland wins every time and this is not me being biased because I am neither friends with khabibs side or irelands side I’m just 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 examine Eire to Russia, however to Dagestan which is a republic within the Russian Federation.
“That’s not what he said,” Sonnen replied. “RUSSIA was never mentioned. He was clear to say Dagastan. Now i’ll step back, please continue 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.
