Khabib on Conor McGregor vs. Dustin Poirier 3, retiring at the top and coaching | MMA on ESPN

well habibi we are only two days away from ufc 264 that's what the sport is talking about so that's where i thought i'd start it with you what did you think of what happened uh between conor mcgregor and dustin fourier i think like uh one more time dustin showed us he is on another level level than conor right now because of hungary because of focus because of this sport doesn't matter this sport don't care about who you are this part care about only hard work you know if you want to be on top you have to train always not only in training camp when ufc give you five no you have to train always because this sport have a lot of lucky lions you know very hungry do you when you were watching dustin did he look uh do you think he's a different fighter than the one you fought in 2019 like mentally i think he'll become better i think we become better he'll learn you know and uh he's not old like if like if it if he was like tony ferguson or rafael dos anos this guy is like they're good but they're old you know right now for this division right now like uh dustin potter is like 32 he'll learn a lot even if he lose to me i think from this loss he learned after conor fight he learned you know and uh right now i think he's prime time i know you're very comfortable and obviously you walked away from the sport you felt like you would accomplish it all when it when it's a conor mcgregor fight week and he's in the media saying things like that rat scurried away and he hasn't done anything in this sport do you have any reaction to that when he says those things it sounds like like same thing like dustin said it's just noise you know he's not him you know i think he tried to it was fake conor it's my opinion because like a couple months ago we see how he was nice now he tried to be like you know it's like it's it's it's it's look like fake you know that's why the the this trash talk don't work on dustin body i think and and uh my opinion it was his big mistake he lost so much energy he lost so much energy because he tried to go under his skin don't focus on your opponent why you have to focus on him just focus on yourself train all the time not only training camp like i told all my guys guys you cannot train only when ufc give you guys fight no like last two months like three months this is not good time to improve this is good time to become good shape but other time when you do you don't have fights like okay you finish your fight one week you rest after that you have to come to the gym and improve yourself all the time when you she give you fight okay focus on fight and become more good shape and fight put your level on different like another level or improve yourself like you cannot train only when you see your fight but most of the celebrity people do this when they become famous when they have money everything they busy they travel everything okay they think i'm champion i need only three months no this is big mistake what about the stuff he says about you though he he seems like he gets agitated he gets angry when you come up that he's that he scurried away you know he he left the sport he didn't do anything for it does that have any do you have any reaction to it at all when you hear him i have reaction like this is just only his opinion but worry about other millions people what we're gonna do with this opinions like people know who is who i was ufc champion i defend my title free time you know i never lose fights i never lose rounds and uh how i did with connor justin dustin this is all killers these guys was on prime time when i fight with them conor three years ago it was his prime time and after what happened in brooklyn to october he have almost six months and he was preparing very good and they know they're gonna compete with someone who all his life training who who wrestling with the beers like like who never stop who gonna put pressure on you he was training all six months and you know when i fight with dustin foreign he was interim champion he was best when i thought he was just engaged he was interim champion he was the best it was the prime time and i think nobody can say nothing about my career i don't think like like 13 and all in ufc i fight with absolutely the best guys and i don't care about this just let people judge you know well in 2019 we i interviewed you in san jose and you said something that a lot of people paid attention to i can still remember it like it was yesterday you said that it'll never be finished between me and conor if we see each other in the street i will go to jail he will go to the hospital it's not enough to smash his team it's it's a forever rivalry do you still feel that way two years later like you know it's like uh we have a lot of hate on this world you know i don't want to give people bad energy if something happens it's gonna be happy you know i don't like to talk people with oh if i'm gonna see this guy if i'm gonna like see other guy i'm gonna do this i'm gonna do this like who's gonna talk who never gonna do this you know it's like like it's gonna be like we don't know what situation is gonna be maybe we're gonna be alone or maybe it's gonna be like 200 camera around like a lot of security you never know you know but i really don't like this you know like fame and money show who you are you know all the time we hear about like money and the fame change people no when money and fame come these two things show who you are you know and uh like what he did like he punch old guy like you guys can watch everything what this guy did and you guys understand like like dustin said this guy is like big of you know this is sam same opinion and all the time when people like i saw like a lot of tweets they tried to support him like how are you gonna support this guy like when kids like like young generation people watch on him like watch on this sport and you're doing okay if you want to promote your fight or promote but don't talk about father i'm gonna kill you or about wife like you cannot talk about this you know it's like if community like mma community gonna support like this bad people this sport gonna go like uh you know like on bad way you know this is mixed martial arts first of all respect you know okay i don't want to say about nothing about trash talk or something like some people doing like they own trash talk and they try to promote their fight okay like some trish talk i support but we have always like we have to know like you cannot go family wife father religion like this is not promote fights like this is like a little bit dangerous there seems to be if there's anything to kind of argue about in the fight itself between dustin and conor what do you think would have happened in the second round if conor would not have have broken his leg he have chance like second fine abu dhabi here like nothing happened what what what is going to happen like like i don't think something gonna happen like what you can like george's give for dust emporia like 10 8. he like maul him on this round and i don't think i don't think like i think if they fight one hundred times like that's not gonna beat him one hundred times it's my opinion um i also remember when you and i spoke before your fight we were talking about tony ferguson and you said that after the damage that he took against justin gaichi he would never be the same tony is still competing maybe he will prove us prove you wrong and he will come back and fight well um but he has lost his last two fights so that's been accurate so far of what you said what do you think the rest of conor mcgregor's career is going to look like okay when i told you about tony ferguson he never going to be same how many fights he lose two fights he fight he fight with uh benil he fight with charles and these guys make him look like amateur they sit on his mount like all all these five all rounds you know and uh this is not my opinion this is what history show us when you take like this damage you're never gonna be same never ever okay if we talk about uh conor okay like last couple years he's not hungry and now what happened with his legs like never ever never people come back and never gonna be people on the same prime twice prime comes only one time you're gonna be on prime after that you're gonna go down it depends you fight with who if you're gonna fight with uh cowboy cerrone you're gonna look good you're gonna be like lion but if you gonna fight like guys who on the top who real really best in the world like dustin pure proportion like this fight gonna show your level you know okay fight with uh cowboy or like these fights be lying and that's it make money this is smart but if you want to become champion if you want to fight like benil islam charles uh dustin porter justin gaichi these guys lies you know this guy is going to show your level and what happened with him yeah well last thing about conor then based on what you just said is it even possible for him to do it again he just said that you can't have two primes but if he were to really go go home and say i need to change some things i want to become a champion again i will do whatever it takes to become a champion again do you think it's even possible for him to do that where he's reached without broken legs yes but with broken legs never because he never gonna kick same with him no i don't i don't believe him and with with tony ferguson no but connor have good age only 32 but tony ferguson 38 no conor with this what happened with his mind legs and uh like i don't think they this both the guys finish but this guy's good for promotion for ufc okay they're gonna bring so much like uh attention everything okay you sure you actually have to uh take from him all jews when he come back if you want to come back okay make him fight one more time with dusty emporia and finish this game that's it i think what what ufc gonna do with him or maybe if you make he fight versus uh nate okay this is but both of them i think he's gonna lose but my opinion you have seen ufc ufc promote him ufc make him okay you see it was big platform where conor become big star right okay they have to take from him all jews that's it what has retired life been like for you you've been retired nine months or three months if we're listening to dana but what is it what has retired life been like for habib it was very busy honestly i have family kids i have my own promotion i have some business stuff it was traveling around around the world you know it was busy with my guys my brothers support them give them good energy good advice be with them when they fight you know and you know it's like very enjoying honestly it was very enjoying because uh because uh when i want i go to the training when i don't want i don't i don't go to the gym you know like like one year ago i was big star and i was busy too and same time i knew i have to fight with lions that's why doesn't matter where i fight fly where i go i always training never ever never for miss training for me is like i don't know what's what's have to happen what have to happen you know it's like if i'm very sick you know if i catch flu or something like this of course i cannot training but even if i broke my leg broke my arm broke my ribs doesn't matter even if i have surgery on my bike and i was like doesn't matter i always train i always in gym even i cannot do nothing i just come to the gym and i watch and i try to learn something and you know this is how you have to be if you want to be champion if not on this business this is don't work i don't know maybe in soccer or american football when you're celebrity you just come play like but you can say like i play soccer football basketball okay but you cannot say i play mma you cannot say you have to compete here with lions if not they're gonna hurt you you're gonna broke something or they're gonna hurt like they're gonna give you knee elbow punch they're gonna choke you they're gonna broke your arms they're gonna broke your legs you have to be careful this with this sport this is not like just regular sport and obviously i'm sure you had uh great moments when you were still an active fighter that you really enjoyed life at times i'm sure you enjoyed time in the gym with your with your with your your boys and and then the competition themselves but would you say that you enjoyed your life as a champion can you enjoy life when you're having to put up with those pressures that you're outlining honestly right now i enjoy more than when i was champion honestly i don't know why you know when i was like i remember when i called ali brother tell this guy like make wakanda title because i don't hold the whole division and ali said no then i say you have when you come vegas you guys gonna talk talk about what i already talked after my fight in abu dhabi i say i'm finished make wakanda title i don't want a whole division two guys someone have to fight like for the wakandan division because this is like put pressure on my shoulder on my mind you know i don't want to be like guy who say october i'm finished and december i'm currently using lightweight champion i don't want to be this you know this is not my goal this is not who i am you know and all the time when i come here say hey relax when you come we're gonna talk okay when i come it was like february march or something like this and uh was sitting was then i you know i was like and then i say hey last time i want to ask you what you're gonna do because after that i'm gonna make decision chamber versus olivier i said then i'm finished and you know it's like then i sent message everything he put post and he was laughing like about like someone put him like he said khabib is retired and someone sent a message hey guy he retired five months ago not today right and he reading to me like he showed me this message look at these people it's like it was funny you know like when when we sit with them i like but honestly i like all this conversation because between us i feel like we have very unstock very honest and even now you know like i really believe we have good relationship and i really appreciated all these guys because they give me this platform they give me they sign me when they sign me it was 11 years no you you know fighters from russia in ufc and at that time end of the 2000 uh 2011 like 10 years ago it at that time it was almost impossible sign from russia you know and i was first guy they signed me and a lot of people look at like fighters coaches like analytics like like media people like everybody look at like okay it's like he's only 23 years old but he have good record but we don't think that he's ufc level we don't think like a lot of people i watch comments like because at that time i was not like big star you know i watch everything all message like i read everything like and i watch like people say like and i think no no no i'm gonna show these guys i'm gonna show these guys how i can become best in the world you know after 10 years i become one of the best of all time whoever did this and then i was like i'm i'm i'm very happy about this because i truly believe this time i can become best but i know like a lot of people don't believe this but my team my father my close people they believe me they support me they was always with me and right now when i finish i cannot be away from this because all these guys they support me all my career and these guys big part of my success you know that's why i'm here that's why like i leave my family i come here to support these guys do you think dana white will ever stop calling you or ali and asking you to come back i don't think because first of all this is because of age because i'm only 32 september i'm gonna become 33 and for this sport this is not big you know like big age like i'm not all for this part like if we can do this like i think for next couple years i can be on top that's why i think he's gonna be always maybe how we're gonna change his mind maybe because like if we watch right now we don't have big stars in mma and i understand dana you know he feel a little bit bad you know how many years they support me they build me you know they promote me they give me big fights because of they give me big fights i become star like everything i know i understand everything i have my own promotion i know what is this i understand this game like like when when they give me fight 2016 when they give me fight versus alvarez and i sign contract fight for the title in medicine square garden after couple days they give connor fight and they say okay you're gonna fight with michael johnson i said no problem i understand you guys you guys need a very big fight at that moment it was not big name khabib he was not big name i understand they give conor fight okay conor we're gonna fight with alvarez okay i under i agree for promotion it's gonna be big fight okay no problem just give me five i'm gonna be here always you know if i'm gonna be alive i'm gonna be here and i'm gonna smash all your boys and i told him after michael johnson what happened i said that don't send me contract during the michael yeah like like during the fight you remember this you know because i understand this game ufc needs some big fights okay no problem guys i don't cry like right now like i watch like a lot of fighters right now a lot of champions they they cry oh give me these give me this well like some some bloggers make a lot of money okay what what they bring on the table they bring so many views they bring so much on the table okay you champion but you don't bring nothing only built but people need something and 2016 i understand okay i don't have big name i agree i have only record impressive record like people watch okay but i need something i need big stage but at that time i send then a message okay if you're gonna give him five okay give me on same card give me something give me somebody because i have i wanna be i wanna become star too okay you say i'm going to give you michael johnson at that time he just knocked out that's emporia he was on very good shape on his prime michael johnson and they give me and you know and now of course i understand a little bit upset i feel this but what we can do like uh if someone really finished i think i think he's finished yeah and you you have uh said that you're finished and you look like you're finished the only the only situation i would throw out there is what if charles oliveira just goes out and just does it all well like what if he goes out and he defends his title against dustin poirier what if he defends his title against justin gaichi what if he defends his title against your protege and friend islam makachev and what if people like me who cover the sport are saying man charles oliveira maybe he could have beat habib when habi was there you know maybe if these two would have fought we don't know who the best lightweight in the world is do you think if someone were to reach that level that competitively you would want to go back and and show that what i'm going to say you ask me what i'm going to say about this if everything happened like you say yes i'm going to say at that time it was habib time now charlestown you would i'm gonna say no i'm gonna i'm not gonna just jump to the media and say oh i'm gonna come back fight with this guy this is not interesting for me you know it's like like even if just charles oliver are gonna be like just engaging islam dustin everybody it will this is his time i'm gonna be happy for him you know you know it's like i'm gonna send congratulations charles you're doing very good job like you have right now eight win streak eight win streak he beat a lot of good guys most of them he finished them you know it's like he's good he's very impressive like uh i think like when he was losing at that time like you know back in the days in ufc i think it was not his prime mental time maybe like you know a lot of fighters they have different like physically mentally here you know when they 27 or when day 23 they mentally may be here but physically here you know but right now i think like charles oliveira like mentally and physically like prime time and i really believe right now on prime time justin gaicher charles oliveira islamic dust emporia these guys on prime time right now and these guys i really believe they're best in the world right now and they like not on end of like next year they they have to compete each other like end of the year dustin vs charles oliveira and except islam gonna jump on top three and it's gonna be discussed about these guys like like char chandler gonna be there but i don't believe he is a like top five like he may be top seven top six like yo i believe justin gaijin dustin islam and charles daley i want to ask you some questions about being a coach but if you don't mind i i did want to ask you a few questions because i've never really interviewed you i've spoken to you a few times but i've never really interviewed you since your retirement fight and i really do want to know um first off why you took it you know with the broken foot and the you know the mumps and the personal loss i mean why why even take the fight it seemed like you were content with your career being over why why do i do it only because i say i say to my mom it's gonna be on my last fight and i don't know how i can explain her i have injured and fights gonna happen after like four months or three months and i think like how i'm gonna explain to her what i have to say oh i was sick and now this is not now this fight cancer no i have to fight maybe it was october maybe february like maybe january you know how i'm gonna accept her only only only this way well why not just cancel it all together did you feel like you owed justin gaichi a fight is that why no no because like you remember like how people made their fighters everybody talk about like before fight like no no before just engaging everybody biggest test nobody take him down he's very good his kicks his movement his punch his interim champ he just maul tony ferguson like you remember this media was talking crazy about this fight but when i make this fight very easily like everybody like just nothing happened okay next okay next like always you know only only that's why like i really like i put on my mind this is my last fight since august since august like beginning of august august september october like all this month i was preparing for my last fight and this happened like and i think okay like it was like and the media don't know about this like it was like coach tell me monday you're gonna spar uh if your performance gonna be bad we cancel the fight and they say uh like okay how are you gonna cancel no no we have to cancel because i don't think you're ready and it was it was saturday and i was feel very bad you know like broken food like my healthy was not good it was beginning of october i said okay just let me show you and monday my performance was okay i do only two rounds and uh coach say okay i said let's go tomorrow he said tomorrow is not sparring day i said no i just want to spark tomorrow too just let me spark okay let's go three round it was like three weeks before the fight and the next day i show him like my best performance and the coach change opponents everyone change and change he put with me all fresh guys and you say okay tomorrow is real sparring day okay we're gonna start for five runs and we're gonna make decision i say coach i think i'm ready it's okay even if i have broken food like in every sparring i become like much better better because all year i was on training camp for me is like every day on training camp you know i never do like okay they give me fight i train but without fight i don't know i hold it on trend you know and every day and i told i remember like wednesday we make spanish i say let's go thursday he said no no you need to dress but i said but we missed a lot of sparring because of this happen let's give me i just want to everyday compete and when fighting fire fight they come i just want to do what i do every day and you know it's like it was it was very hard like training camp without personal loss like everything injures but when fight time come like i was very hungry you know like i just feel mentally i was on different level than just engaging i want to ask you a kind of a personal question here habib and i hope you don't mind me asking this but you know your entire career was always father's plan and um his it was very clear that his plan was 30-0 and it would end with george st pierre yes that was his plan for you something like this yeah he wanted 30-0 right i mean he wanted 30-0 and then he said that his son would retire no this is not mean like he won't like he say i think he say like it's it's it's local it's look good like no like 30 you know like like something like this and he mentioned like like tony ferguson george and fair fights like this and uh but you know it's like um after what happened a lot of things change you know i don't want to talk about everything a lot of things change and uh for me is like 30 ml 29 or 15 like it's nothing let me just like i fight and i show the world you know like from nowhere i come here and take over everything you know at that moment i would i was number one from palm fighter this is no nobody can say nothing it was not kamarusman it was not jon jones who fight very close fights with uh all these light heavyweights like owen simple like thiago uh thiago and other guy dominic rays not dominic rays alexander no no no this guy forget his name light heavyweight smith anthony smith thiago dominic race like owen simpro these guys like uh his show versus them like very bad performance and everything what happened with doping like everything but what about me i was mo everybody and at that moment 24th october 2020 i was on on the top after that what happened i don't care and i do want to push like put my name or call me greatest of all time no i am one of the greatest of all time i am on one level with the fader anderson silva john jones daniel cormier demetrius johnson i'm george semper i'm on one level i put my name on one level and i don't wanna call this guy greatest his number two is number three and one of the best just one more question about your father and you don't have to share anything that you guys discussed specifically but before he passed away did did you talk about the end of your career did he know how you were going to finish your career no we never talk about this but we we talked about but he told me i don't remember nah like when you're gonna finish islam have to be islam have to come like you finish and islam come it's have to be like on the same time like uh you guys three years different like between you guys and i really believe like like your prime time is gonna be very soon after that like when you finish you're gonna go but you have to come but i told this time you're a little bit late brother you only have top ten top nine you have to be all day this time you're supposed to be on top three but this guy late but this saturday you have to improve yourself and show the world who who who is islamic not only like habib sparring partner or habib brotherhood like also no you have to be by own like islam best in the world like eight win streak he beat everyone and this guy have to fight for the title not because of his my brother friend or something like this and this sat today is gonna show inshallah is islam as good as you islam is very good right now right now october is going to become 30 years old you know october this is like perfect time show the world who's the best when i was 30 years i became ufc lightweight champion you know i was like it was 2018 but i was 29 29 april and september i became 30 after one month i win biggest fight in ufc history you know when you're 30 years i think you're mentally and physically prime become like on same level 30 31 32 this is perfect age and right now islam on this age you have very good win streak like mentally physically he is like boxing kicking he's grappling like everything i think he's a little bit step like ahead from all these guys like like i truly believe he can finish that simply like maybe it doesn't gonna be upset but i truly believe he can finish that's important he can mold charles oliveira i don't think charles can play with him like this old jiu-jitsu guard i don't think and uh like i truly believe like we just need time we just need time and no accident you know no accident like and uh like completely mma fighter i believe islam can beat all of these guys do you think islam will win the belt and how long do you think he'll hold on to it for do you think you'll hold on to it as long as you did longer this is big question you know because um because end of the year that's empowered you're gonna fight charles right november december something like this okay i think justin and chandler there and bennu daniel is like six seven wins three i think seven wins tricked me beneath like number three you just be tony ferguson what we're gonna do is be new and islam islam just nine right now like next year i don't think beginning of next year like anything can happen like i think next year islam you have to fight for the title like i don't know like underestimate thiago moses i really believe thiago moses much better than his last fight rudolph my opinion like fighter he's better than drew dobber and he's tougher than him on the ground is it's not easy to finish the jaguars and i think uh i think next year he have to fight 30 yeah he can pick he can be champion for minimum two three years you be in this corner the whole time are you going to see through his career of course of course i'm going to be here i'm going to be here if i'm going to be alive i'm going to be here for usman umar abubakar all of these guys like like i think maybe like 34 islam can finish like like like i have guys in my team i give them advice you guys like like when i see someone he don't have fire he's like age like i just tell him hey you you it's gonna be better if you find other job and i try to help him like give him like some job make him busy making money like you know like just do just don't tell me like just leave this sport no we have to make him busy do something like in other like you know like things because in this sport you have to be very hungry or other way like someone gonna come and hurt you when you have family kids when you have all life ahead you know it's like this is this is not easy like look what happened with conor you know hit kids watch like his family watch look what happened with like chris weidman or like anderson silva like not only these guys who broke legs like other guys who have damage on their brain you know how many guys they still compete knock out knock out knock out knockout this is change your mind change your brain like this is give you very like they make you like different person because of too much you eat too much punch you know this is you cannot play mma no this is very dangerous part

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Length: 35min 33sec (2133 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 13 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/ReyOrdonez]

This is a fantastic interview. Some really interesting insight from Khabib, who couldn't seem more secure in his retirement.

[u/brownbilal]

When asked about Conor's future, Khabib says he doesnt see him winning the title due to change in mentality and his broken leg. He also thinks that cuz UFC made him this big, they are going to take every penny out of him that they can (juice him in his words) and make him fight Dustin and then Nate which in Khabibs opinion, Conor will lose both.

[u/sleepingchair]

I always train, I always in gym. This is how you have to be if you have to be champion... You can say 'I play soccer, football, basketball, hockey,' but you cannot say 'I play MMA.' You have to compete here with lions. If not, they gonna hurt you. You're gonna broke something. You have to be careful with this sport. This is not like just regular sport.

In this sport you have to be very hungry, or otherwise, someone gonna come and hurt you. When you have family, kids, when you have all life ahead of you. This is not easy. Look what happened with Connor. His kids watch, his family watch. Look what happend to Chris Weidman or Anderson Silva. Not only these guys who broke their legs. Other guys who have damage to their brain... This changes your mind, your brain, it makes you a different person. You cannot 'play' MMA.

Honestly right now, I enjoy more than when I was champion. Honestly. I don't know why.

What I got from this interview is how he had an all-in or all-out mentality for MMA, and now that that's over, he's happier and at peace with leaving it behind. He's a smart, thoughtful, articulate guy that fully knew the risks inherent in MMA and made the rational decision to stop because he had nothing else to prove. He lost the "hunger" to keep going at that champion grind to risk major injury.

[u/Carter-Canary]

Some interesting points:

-Said he tried to vacate the title repeatedly and was stressed that it would look like he was dragging out his retirement but Dana refused to discuss it until they met in person. Thinks Dana won't ever leave him alone due to him being the prime age to fight but understands his position.

-Wouldn't come back even if Charles went on a run to rival his, beating Dustin/Makhachev/Gaethje, said he'd be happy for him and understand it's Oliveira's time, but just not his concern anymore.

-Fought through his illness and injury instead of postponing because he couldn't bring himself to explain to his mother that he'd have to drag retirement out until next year.

-The reason he took it at all was because of how people said Gaethje was his toughest test and wouldn't be taken down by him, too powerful, etc. When he dominated Gaethje, everyone changed the narrative again

-Mendez wanted to cancel the fight because Khabib looked so bad in training, even in the beginning of October. Khabib insisted on the fight because he'd been in camp all year for Tony/stayed in shape all year, and increased sparring into fight week to improve.

-His father was never set on 30-0 the way people thought, just that it would be a nice number. For him, 29 or 30 doesn't matter.

-Finally responds to Jones P4P debate, says Jones looked like ass in recent performances and he felt he was deserving #1 considering his own dominance.

-Says he'll never try to say he's the GOAT, just one of the best along with Fedor, Jones, GSP, DJ, DC, etc.

-Father always wanted Makhachev poised to fight for the belt after Khabib's retirement, but he's a little behind on schedule. Wants him to prove he's more than just Khabib's teammate. Thinks he can beat the likes of Dustin/Oliveira.

-Will stick around for all his guys, just as they did for his career and success.

[u/[deleted]]

Once again, Khabib is on the money. The UFC will "juice" Mcgregor even though he isn't elite anymore.

[u/Titterinmyshitter]

“This guy’s like bag of shit, you know”

Ahh 6 minutes in and he’s already dropped a gem.

[u/RedShoes95]

I hope we see a Charles vs Islam fight, even tho they’re different fighters it’d be kinda like Tony vs Khabib that we never got

[u/snobbysnob]

"Without broken legs, yes. With broken legs, never."

Idk why but that made me laugh. What harsh thing to say with such intense indifference.

[u/metanoia09]

Love this interview. Khabib is so insightful, objective & unintentionally funny too lmao. When asked if he would come back to fight Do Bronx if he would run through the division and defend his title multiple times, he said “I’m not gonna just jump on the media and say I’m gonna come back and fight with this guy. Even if Charles Oliveira gonna beat like, Gaethje, Islam, Dustin. This is his time. I’m gonna be happy for him.”