‘I’ll make an announcement on my future quickly’: UFC champ Khabib guarantees replace on profession

UFC light-weight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov has promised followers an replace about his future “quickly”, because the promotion’s 155 lbs ruler has been mendacity in limbo since his proposed title defence in opposition to Tony Ferguson was annulled in April.

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The fifth time the 2 had been penciled in to struggle one another will nearly actually be the ultimate; when Khabib turned stranded in his native Russia following the outbreak of Covid-19, Justin Gaethje stepped up as a alternative and shocked the MMA world by battering Ferguson right into a Fifth-round TKO loss.

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By dispatching ‘El Cucuy’, Gaethje clinched the interim light-weight belt and earned the appropriate to satisfy ‘The Dagestani Eagle’, and speak now surrounds a matchup between the pair within the absence of Ferguson and the newly-retired Conor McGregor.

Khabib on Tuesday promised followers an replace on his personal profession in an image along with fellow Dagestanis and UFC fighters, featherweight Zubaira Tukhugov, and cousin and welterweight Abubakar Nurmagomedov.

“These two have been grinding all summer season and can return originally of autumn (September), we want them luck,” the 31-year-old write. “About my very own future, I’ll make an announcement quickly.” 

Since flying again to Dagestan on the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Khabib has needed to endure the private hardship of his father and coach Abdulmanap being significantly struck down by Covid-19 an infection, from which he’s nonetheless recovering.

Nurmagomedov Sr. was twice entered right into a medically-induced coma after present process coronary heart bypass surgical procedure after struggling a stroke introduced on my the illness, and is convalescing in a Moscow hospital.