UFC welterweight champion Islam Makhachev has steered that his mom needs him to contemplate retiring from combined martial arts.
As we all know, Khabib Nurmagomedov famously promised his mom as soon as upon a time that he would retire and keep retired from combined martial arts. After he left, Charles Oliveira was the person who ascended to the highest of the division, earlier than Islam Makhachev got here to city and made his presence recognized at 155 kilos.
From there, Islam Makhachev determined to make the soar as much as welterweight, the place he managed to turn into a two-weight world champion. Given what he has achieved within the sport, many are questioning how for much longer he has left earlier than he opts to trip off into the sundown, in the same method to Khabib.
In a recent interview, Islam Makhachev made it recognized that his mom is probably not an enormous fan of him carrying on down this path for an excessive amount of longer.
Islam Makhachev discusses his mom
“This has been a dialog with my mother for a few years now. I keep in mind once I received the Fight Sambo World Championship, earlier than I had even began my skilled profession. My mother mentioned, ‘That’s it. There’s no Olympics in sambo, you’ve already received a world title — that’s sufficient.’
“Since then, we’ve saved coming again to this matter. Recently, she’s been telling me, ‘Khabib listened to his mom, however you don’t need to hear.’
“I inform her that she by no means put the query that approach. She by no means mentioned, ‘Both you cease, or…’
“Not too long ago, she advised me, ‘I need to meet Khabib. We have to speak.’ I requested, ‘What do it’s worthwhile to speak to him about?’ She mentioned, ‘We simply want to speak.’
“I haven’t organized that assembly but. But when my mother ever really places her foot down and insists, then in fact…”
Islam has nothing left to show in combined martial arts, but when he can get by means of Ian Machado Garry, you would need to assume a gathering with Ilia Topuria might be on the playing cards in some unspecified time in the future down the highway – if he defeats Justin Gaethje, that’s.
