{"id":449260,"date":"2026-02-02T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449260\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:34:07","slug":"khabib-nurmagomedov-says-his-fight-team-is-here-to-take-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449260\/","title":{"rendered":"Khabib Nurmagomedov says his fight team is \u2018here to take everything\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team Khabib is coming for everything, and they don\u2019t care what you think of them or their fighting style. That\u2019s the message that Khabib Nurmagomedov shared with media in the lead-up to PFL Dubai<\/a> on February 7th, where his cousin Usman Nurmagomedov is set to headline against Alfie Davis.<\/p>\n

Nurmagomedov clearly has dominance in the sport on his mind. Islam Makhachev has the UFC lightweight title, and Usman Nurmagomedov has the PFL lightweight title. Umar Nurmagomedov is looking to become UFC bantamweight champ, and then there\u2019s new up-and-comers as well. But not everyone is a fan of the Dagestani team\u2019s style of fighting. There\u2019s speculation of anti-Russian bias<\/a> when it comes to signing and booking talent, and UFC employees have suggesting wrestling-heavy fighters may not stick around<\/a> in the promotion.<\/p>\n

Asked what he thought of the wave of negative talk from other camps and some fans, Khabib shrugged it off.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t care about this,\u201d Nurmagomedov said (video via Red Corner MMA). \u201cIf people like, they like. If they hate, they hate. If somebody don\u2019t like you, it\u2019s very hard to become their friends. It\u2019s very hard. But the numbers talk. Numbers talk. Belts. We can say belts talk. And ranking.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey talk by themselves, you know,\u201d he continued. \u201cI don\u2019t have to change somebody\u2019s mind. If they like our team, they like. If they don\u2019t like, okay. Who cares? That\u2019s why we love this sport. There is competition. There is a lot of different fighters and teams. They can choose whatever they want. But we\u2019re here, we\u2019re here to take everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right now we talk about PFL and in PFL we have very good fighters. This show coming up, it\u2019s going to be Usman there and two guys I really want people to pay attention, I don\u2019t think somebody in the world can beat these guys: it\u2019s Renat Khavalov, bantamweight, and Amru Magomedov, lightweight. I don\u2019t see many people in the world beating them. Maybe one, two, or three times can give them hard time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nurmagomedov admitted he didn\u2019t always enjoy the role of coach but said it was essential for him to help his team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are like my young brothers,\u201d he said. \u201cEverybody talks about Usman, my cousin, but there is others. Khabib Nabiev, he is my cousin too. Amru Magomedov, he\u2019s not my cousin but he\u2019s my relative, he\u2019s from my village, we grew up together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is so many people so very close to me and I have to be here and I have to support them, I have to give them good advice to stay focused, train right, and be the champion. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Khabib is coming for everything, and they don\u2019t care what you think of them or their fighting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,8810,82],"class_list":["post-449260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-professional-fighters-league-pfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449260","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=449260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}