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An undated photo of UFC legend\u00a0Khabib Nurmagomedov. \u2014 Instagram\/khabib_nurmagomedov<\/p>\n
Daniel Cormier on Wednesday responded to Khabib Nurmagomedov’s views on a potential fight between lightweight champion Ilia Topuria and Arman Tsarukyan.<\/p>\n
Topuria has become one of the biggest stars in all of mixed martial arts today following his knockout victory against Charles Oliveira in June to capture the lightweight belt.<\/p>\n
The lightweight champion, who remained undefeated and extended his professional record to 17-0, moved up from featherweight after a dominant run that included wins over top contenders like Josh Emmett and Bryce Mitchell.<\/p>\n
With the win, Topuria has also joined the elite group of fighters who have won UFC titles in two different divisions.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Tsarukyan is the top-ranked contender for a title shot against \u2018El Matador\u2019 and is on a four-fight winning streak in the UFC.<\/p>\n
Khabib, in a recent interview, predicted Arman as the clear winner against Topuria, saying: “I’d say it’s 80%-20% in Arman’s favor.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a recent video on his YouTube channel, Cormier shared his view on Topuria vs Sarukyan, which clashed with Khabib Nurmagomedov’s statement. <\/p>\n
“80-20 is crazy though, come on man. 80-20 is hard when anyone’s fighting… I don’t believe that for one second,\u201d Cormier said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI really do disagree with Khabib on that one. There’s not a guy in the world that I believe is going to beat Ilia Topuria 8 out of 10 times. That’s just the truth.”<\/p>\n
Khabib has a UFC record of 29-0 and is widely accepted as the greatest of all time in MMA.<\/p>\n
In a recent interview, Arman mentioned that Khabib is his idol and how the legend inspired him when he was starting the sport.<\/p>\n
“I got a lot of favorite fighters. I always watch their fights to see how they move, how they wrestle,\u201d Sarukyan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if we say who inspired me when I was young, it was Khabib [Nurmagomedov]. Because he’s from Russia and I’m from Russia as well. I live there, and like when I started training MMA, he was a goal for us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An undated photo of UFC legend\u00a0Khabib Nurmagomedov. \u2014 Instagram\/khabib_nurmagomedov Daniel Cormier on Wednesday responded to Khabib Nurmagomedov’s views…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[15819,15504,49,48,15503,4220,4226,641,3262,14242,3627,638,82,4448,640],"class_list":["post-103351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-arman","tag-arman-tsarukyan","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charles-oliveira","tag-cormier","tag-daniel-cormier","tag-fighting","tag-ilia-topuria","tag-khabib","tag-khabib-nurmagomedov","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-topuria","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}