{"id":130008,"date":"2025-09-09T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130008\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:40:09","slug":"zabit-magomedsharipovs-top-teammate-shares-definitive-update-on-former-ufc-stars-potential-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130008\/","title":{"rendered":"Zabit Magomedsharipov’s top teammate shares definitive update on former UFC star’s potential comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former UFC featherweight star Zabit Magomedsharipov has repeatedly teased a return to combat sports.<\/p>\n

\"Zabit<\/p>\n

Before the UFC featherweight division saw the blossoming of top names like Alexander Volkanovski, Jean Silva, and Diego Lopes, the division\u2019s boogeyman was Zabit Magomedsharipov.<\/p>\n

Magomedsharipov, who retired from MMA in 2022, was one of the most feared featherweight contenders before hanging up the gloves. He suffered through several health-related issues the derailed his career and forced his decision to retire.<\/p>\n

Before retiring, Magomedsharipov notched 14 consecutive wins, including victories against the likes of Calvin Kattar and Jeremy Stephens. He was tabbed as a likely future champion by the likes of Joe Rogan and other top analysts.<\/p>\n

PFL star Magomed Magomedov reacts to teammate Zabit Magomedsharipov\u2019s latest comeback teases<\/p>\n

Since retiring in 2022, Magomedsharipov has repeatedly teased a return to the cage, most recently in training footage<\/a> while preparing some of his longtime teammates for upcoming bouts. This prompted many to question whether or not the 34-year-old was plotting a comeback.<\/p>\n

During a recent interview with Bloody Elbow<\/a>, Magomed Magomedov was asked about Magomedsharipov potentially returning to the UFC Octagon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s finished. I think if he wanted to it would take him only half a year to get back in shape. But I don\u2019t think he\u2019s coming back, I think he\u2019s done. I wish, but I just don\u2019t see him coming back because it\u2019s already been five years,\u201d Magomedov said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s training, he\u2019s in great shape and he can kill anybody. If he went back at featherweight, he would kill anybody; Alexander Volkanovski or anyone. But I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Magomedsharipov\u2019s last fight came in a unanimous decision victory over Kattar in November 2019. He was supposed to fight Yair Rodriguez in August 2020 before the fight was canceled after Rodriguez suffered an injury in camp.<\/p>\n

At 34 years old, Magomedsharipov remains in his physical prime, and could still plot a comeback in the next year or two. But according to his top teammate, don\u2019t expect it to come to fruition anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC featherweight star Zabit Magomedsharipov has repeatedly teased a return to combat sports. Before the UFC featherweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,787,35489],"class_list":["post-130008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-zabit-magomedsharipov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}