Finkelstein: Khabib is not a UFC project

Vadim Finkelstein, president of the M-1 Global promotion, commented on the words of the head of Chechnya about the former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.

“Mixed martial arts is not an Olympic sport to go under the Russian flag. But it seems to me that Khabib has always represented Russia and Dagestan. I didn’t see other fighters going out under someone’s flag. Khabib is not a UFC project. On the contrary, they did not want to move him - they did not give him a title fight. He walked for a very long time to success without defeat. I do not know at all, where does this opinion come from? Fighters like Emelianenko and Nurmagomedov do not need to prove anything at all. They have already proved everything in the ring," Finkelstein said.

Earlier Kadyrov called Khabib a 'UFC project'.