{"id":129775,"date":"2025-09-08T22:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129775\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T22:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:26:06","slug":"zabit-magomedsharipovs-top-teammate-shares-definitive-update-on-former-ufc-stars-potential-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129775\/","title":{"rendered":"Zabit Magomedsharipov&#8217;s top teammate shares definitive update on former UFC star&#8217;s potential comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PFL star Magomed Magomedov reacts to teammate Zabit Magomedsharipov\u2019s latest comeback teases<\/p>\n<p>Since retiring in 2022, Magomedsharipov has repeatedly teased a return to the cage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/zabit-magomedsharipov\/zabit-magomedsharipov-teases-possible-return-to-mixed-martial-arts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p>During a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/09\/08\/zabit-magomedsharipovs-disappointing-comeback-update-from-teammate-despite-still-being-good-enough-to-be-ufc-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bloody Elbow<\/a>, Magomed Magomedov was asked about Magomedsharipov potentially returning to the UFC Octagon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>\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<p>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<p>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":"PFL star Magomed Magomedov reacts to teammate Zabit Magomedsharipov\u2019s latest comeback teases Since retiring in 2022, Magomedsharipov has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,640,71097],"class_list":["post-129775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-zabit-magomedsharipov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129775","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=129775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}