Khabib: "Nobody can make me come back"

Former UFC Lightweight Champion Khabib Nurmagomedov once again stressed that he would never resume his fighting career.

“Is it possible that the fight between Oliveira and Poirier will interest me so much that I will return to the UFC. No. Nobody and nothing will be able to say or do something to get me back. We have a man there who has to take the championship belt. His name is Islam Makhachev. He must return the title to Dagestan. By the end of next year we will have the title again,” the Russian said in an interview with ESPN.

Nurmagomedov hung up his gloves in October 2020.