Trumpets, infants & cavalcades: Watch Khabib get mobbed as he arrives in Uzbekistan forward of cousin’s combat

UFC light-weight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov was given a welcome to recollect as he arrived in Uzbekistan forward of a combat night time which is able to characteristic his youthful cousin Omar on the cardboard.

‘The Eagle’ landed in Tashkent on Thursday within the build-up to Gorilla Preventing Championship (GFC) 20 within the Uzbek capital on the weekend, the place the unbeaten Omar will face Argentina’s Brian Gonzalez.

Footage shared by Sputnik reveals UFC megastar Khabib being met with the ostentatious fanfare normally reserved for a visiting head of state, as males clad in conventional costume and enjoying the lengthy trumpets – generally known as karnays – fashioned a processional hall.

Because the trumpets blared, Khabib emerged to be greeted by a sizeable crowd and was handed a child to have a photograph with as he made his manner via the assembled plenty.

Even a person as accustomed to being the focus as Khabib appeared stunned on the raucous reception, smiling and waving at followers earlier than showing momentarily involved as safety tried to clear the best way.

With an area cloak draped over his shoulders, Khabib finally made it to a ready automobile earlier than dashing of with a cavalcade.

Khabib is sponsored by Gorilla Vitality Drink, the organizers of Saturday’s occasion in Tashkent. His cousin Omar will likely be placing his 11-Zero file on the road as he goals to proceed in Khabib’s footsteps on the street to stardom.

He’ll try and fare higher than one other of Khabib’s cousins, Abubakar, who was lately crushed within the first spherical of his UFC debut in Moscow. 

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