UFC All eyes on McGregor
YOUFC president Dana White confirmed this Khabib Nurmagomedov may be in the organization again, but the Russian does have one condition if he wants to make a turn at retirement.
Khabib made the shock decision to hang up his gloves after submitting Justin Gaethje to UFC 254 in October. Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier going head to head at UFC 257, and that fight will be the key to the Russian’s return.
“The way he feels at the moment is that he has achieved everything he wanted to achieve,” White told ESPN.
‘He thought so [Charles] Oliveira looked really good in his last fight against Tony Ferguson. Next Saturday we have the McGregor-Poirier veg en [Michael] Chandler en [Dan] Hook up there.
“So his words to me were, ‘I’m going to watch this fight. I’ll never commit to the division. These guys are doing something spectacular, showing me something spectacular and letting me come back and fight.’
“So I have a feeling that if someone delivers someone, if these guys can do something special, Khabib will fight them. ‘
“Show me something spectacular and let me come back and fight.”@danawhite explain to @Jon_Anik what @ TeamKhabib told him during their meeting and addressed the lightweights who # UFC257pic.twitter.com/oFr4TmCNI3
? ESPN MMA (@espnmma) 16 January 2021