Kazakh veteran: “Oliveira didn’t want to fight Makhachev”

“Oliveira whined that he was fighting Islam again in Abu Dhabi. I think he understood that he would not win against Islam. I don’t see anyone winning against Islam in this division. There is no such person who can create competition for him. I don’t know why he did such sparring, because of which he received a whipping. In theory, you should leave such sparring 10 days before. You can’t help yourself anymore. He got ready to go to Abu Dhabi too late; he didn’t even complete acclimatization. It is clear that Oliveira did not want to fight Makhachev. We drove along it for the first time.”