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<\/p>\nKhabib Nurmagomedov has unveiled another factor that would prevent him from making a return to the Octagon.<\/p>\n
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Nurmagomedov retired following a technical submission win over Justin Gaethje<\/a> back in 2020. \u201cThe Eagle\u201d walked away from MMA competition due to the wishes of his mother, who wanted him to retire<\/a> following the passing of Abdulmanap, Nurmagomedov\u2019s father. Nurmagomedov retired with a perfect pro MMA record of 29-0 and he became a UFC Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n While Abdulmanap\u2019s death played a vital role in Nurmagomedov\u2019s decision to hang up his gloves, there is another reason for him to stay out of action. During an appearance on \u201cHustle Show,\u201d<\/a> Khabib Nurmagomedov explained how the need for lengthy preparation at his age, 36, is als0 a good reason for him to avoid a comeback (h\/t MMAFighting<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t just say, \u2018Give me six months, I\u2019ll be ready,\u2019\u201d Nurmagomedov said. \u201cNo. To get into fight shape, to get back to your old form, you need a lot of time. But back when I was still fighting, before I retired, I trained regularly too and that was enough for me. It worked. If I was given a fight, boom, in 100 days I\u2019d shut everything off. Completely. No traveling, no meetings, no business contracts. I didn\u2019t touch anything. I told them, \u2018Don\u2019t bother me.\u2019 I trained morning and night, morning and night, morning and night, resting only Sundays.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I missed even one of those two-a-day sessions, like I said earlier, I\u2019d get a panic attack, because I knew I had to fight and it felt out of control. Like I wasn\u2019t ready. Like that cage door was about to shut on me.\u201d<\/p>\n Nurmagomedov is still heavily involved in the sport of MMA, coaching the likes of former UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev. Nurmagomedov will be in Makhachev\u2019s ear ahead of a big UFC Welterweight Championship clash against titleholder Jack Della Maddalena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khabib Nurmagomedov has unveiled another factor that would prevent him from making a return to the Octagon. Nurmagomedov…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-25927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25927","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=25927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}