{"id":40094,"date":"2025-08-02T13:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40094\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:47:07","slug":"khabib-nurmagomedov-believes-the-brother-of-the-ufcs-biggest-what-if-is-the-future-of-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40094\/","title":{"rendered":"Khabib Nurmagomedov believes the brother of the UFC’s biggest ‘What if’ is the future of MMA\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Khabib Nurmagomedov has one of the keenest eyes for talent in the world of MMA, so to be called the future of the sport by \u2018The Eagle\u2019 is a huge privilege.<\/p>\n

Ever since Khabib Nurmagomedov<\/a> shockingly retired from the UFC<\/a> in 2020, he has become one of the best current coaches in the sport, continuing his father\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Eagle\u2019 coaches the likes of Islam Makhachev<\/a>, Umar Nurmagomedov<\/a>, and others, and earlier this year he opened up an incredible MMA school in the mountains of Dagestan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And with that, one of the greatest fighters of all time<\/a> continues to look out for the next crop of talent in MMA, attempting to continue the Dagestan dominance in the sport.<\/p>\n

\"KhabibPhoto by Aziz Karimov\/Getty ImagesKhabib declares who he thinks is the future of MMA<\/p>\n

With the former UFC lightweight champion now keeping a keen and close eye on the upcoming fighters in the sport, he has declared who he thinks is the \u2018future of MMA\u2019.<\/p>\n

This past Friday, Nurmagomedov was in attendance at the PFL 2025 World Tournament Championships in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he was cornering featherweight fighter Movlid Khaybulaev ahead of his title bout against Jesus Pinedo.<\/p>\n

Khaybulaev went on to submit the former champion, winning himself $500,000 and the featherweight belt for 2025.<\/p>\n

Someone else who was hoping to make it to the tournament championship is Russian prospect, Khasan Magomedsharipov, the younger brother of former UFC star, Zabit Magomedsharipov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zabit is widely regarded as one of the biggest \u2018what if\u2019 stories in UFC history<\/a> after he shockingly retired from the sport to pursue a career as a doctor.<\/p>\n

But although fans are devastated at the thought of never seeing Zabit fight again, the blow is softened by the fact that his younger brother is at the start of his MMA career and has an exciting future ahead of him, so much so, that Khabib has declared him as \u2018the future\u2019 of MMA.<\/p>\n

Magomedsharipov\u2019s manager claimed younger brother is \u2018way better\u2019 than Zabit<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old is currently 10-0 in professional MMA and currently fights under the PFL<\/a> banner in the featherweight division.<\/p>\n

And with what is deemed as such an exciting career ahead, Zabit\u2019s manager has claimed that Khasan is \u2018way better\u2019 than the former UFC star<\/a> and that he would be in the top five of the rankings if he signed with the UFC now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khabib Nurmagomedov has one of the keenest eyes for talent in the world of MMA, so to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,15058,785,5963,85,35489],"class_list":["post-40094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-khabib-nurmagomedov","tag-mma","tag-pfl","tag-sports","tag-zabit-magomedsharipov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40094","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=40094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}