Khabib Nurmagomedov believes Conor McGregor can come back from personal downfall: ‘He can change with him so many lives’

Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor have by no means seen eye to eye, however that doesn’t imply the retired UFC star has given up on his rival.

The previous few years have seen McGregor featured in headlines for all of the incorrect causes, together with not too long ago being discovered responsible for sexual assault in a civil swimsuit stemming from a 2018 incident in Dublin (a verdict McGregor failed to appeal). Even in his prime, McGregor earned a fame as a “dangerous boy” for his outside-of-the-cage antics, and his feud with Nurmagomedov included a violent assault on a bus transporting the previous UFC light-weight champion in April 2018 during which McGregor threw a shifting dolly threw a window.

On Saturday, Nurmagomedov spoke at a Muslim faith gathering at Tilles Middle in New York (streamed stay by influencer Sneako on Parti), and when he was requested about McGregor, he instructed the Irishman search salvation.

“I don’t wish to point out his title,” Nurmagomedov stated. “That is punishment. That is punishment and [McGregor] retains doing this, retains doing this, retains doing this. Every thing that occurred with these previous individuals, lady this, alcohol this, medication, every little thing. That is punishment. … However essentially the most lovely a part of this, Allah all the time provides for us—it doesn’t matter anyone, all people—[a] probability to return again. At all times, on this world, an opportunity to return again.”

McGregor’s rap sheet additionally consists of an assault cost from 2019, when he punched an aged man in a Dublin pub, and he’s at present the defendant in one other civil swimsuit for an alleged sexual assault that happened in Miami in 2023. He was additionally concerned in an embarrassing social media incident in July when rapper Azealia Banks leaked alleged nude photos of McGregor.

Nurmagomedov, who settled his beef with McGregor with a fourth-round submission victory of their light-weight title battle at UFC 229, maintains that although McGregor’s fame has taken a extreme hit since he final fought in July 2021, he has a accountability to scrub up his act for his legion of followers and followers.

“That is essentially the most lovely factor,” Nurmagomedov stated. “It doesn’t matter the way you dangerous, Allah goes to present you an opportunity to all the time come again. I believe he has an opportunity and he has to alter the best way how he’s residing. Why am I speaking about this? … If he’s going to alter, he can change with him so many lives, too. And that’s why I want him to alter himself.”

Watch the clip beneath, courtesy of Championship Rounds.