There have been rumblings that Islam Makhachev and Jack Della Maddalena would have their lengthy awaited conflict on the earth’s most well-known area and Khabib Nurmagomedov has confirmed as a lot on his finish. The mentor of Makhachev was not too long ago in a reside Q&A context and when requested in regards to the timeline in addition to location for his cost’s bid to grow to be a two division UFC champion, Nurmagomedov talked about how he thinks that right here in New York Metropolis can be the welterweight title spot.
UFC 322 in November at Madison Sq. Backyard marks the corporate’s annual foray into the large apple and a JDM-Makhachev bout as an MSG headliner would make sense for this magnitude of an annual tentpole occasion. Nurmagomedov joked that the previous light-weight champion’s supervisor Ali Abdelaziz was upset as a result of he gave info however playfully mentioned that Makhachev offers with UFC and that Nurmagomedov doesn’t need to himself.
In footage initially recorded by The Cornell Fight Sports activities Present and later shared to Champ RDS on X, Nurmagomedov mentioned,
“Now we have cope with them. [Islam] gonna struggle in Madison Sq. Backyard. They mentioned sure.”
Khabib Nurmagomedov additionally offers particulars on an enormous pFL rematch
Khabib Nurmagomedov was steadily breaking information at this current talking engagement when he hinted at an enormous rematch being focused for the PFL Sensible Cage. His cousin and PFL’s light-weight champion Usman Nurmagomedov had a barnburner bout with Paul Hughes again in January with many calling it the perfect struggle within the historical past of the corporate and working it again for a rematch is one thing that ardent PFL followers have steadily been calling for.
The previous UFC light-weight champion gave some particulars as to how issues had been on the lookout for Usman Nurmagomedov vs. Paul Hughes 2 and that followers may even anticipate it in two months’ time as Nurmagomedov acknowledged [via talk SPORT],
“Usman, he’s a hell of a fighter. He’s combating on October 4 in Dubai, with the identical man he fought with final time. It was a tough struggle, and now we’re going to see how he offers with the rematch.”