“In my opinion, Khabib retired too soon. He could still be fighting to this day. And Islam Makhachev is a kind of spiritual continuation of Khabib in MMA. But knowing Nurmagomedov closely, I can say that the death of his father took away a lot from him. I knew it was all over and he would leave when his mother told him: ‘You started this journey with your father. I don’t want you to continue fighting without him,’” quotes Cormier from the Sportskeeda portal.
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Khabib forbade Makhachev to fight in January