The great Khabib Nurmagomedov is back in the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Eagle\u201d is in town for UFC 330<\/a>, as he\u2019ll be helping his longtime friend and teammate Islam Makhachev prepare for his latest title defense opposite Ian Machado Garry. While in the US, Khabib appeared on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast<\/a> for a three hour interview. Nurmagomedov is not fluent in English, so the interview was actually recorded in Russian before the audio was translated.<\/p>\n Years ago, Nurmagomedov expressed interest in appearing on the Joe Rogan Experience but was concerned that his English speaking skills weren\u2019t up to snuff. While talking with Fridman, Khabib explained how highly he thought of Rogan\u2019s influence on the UFC and declared his eventual appearance on JRE to be \u201cinevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf we\u2019re talking about the people most responsible for promoting the UFC, I\u2019d put Dana [White] first,\u201d Khabib Nurmagomedov began. \u201cSecond place, without question, goes to Joe Rogan. It\u2019s honestly hard to imagine the UFC without him. It\u2019ll be hard when he\u2019s no longer part of it. What he\u2019s achieved in his own field, what he\u2019s achieved in podcasting; he\u2019s the best. What he\u2019s built, the way he commentates, the way he communicates, his knowledge, his charisma, the way he carries a conversation \u2014 I think a lot of people could learn from him. As for me going on his podcast, I think it\u2019s inevitable. God willing if we\u2019re given the time and the health we\u2019ll have a lot to talk about. There are so many different topics we could discuss together, so a conversation with Joe Rogan would be very interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n Khabib\u2019s three-hour interview with Fridman covered everything from Dagestan warrior culture, street fighting, and facing Conor McGregor. For fans of \u201cThe Eagle,\u201d it\u2019s definitely worth a listen until that eventual visit to the JRE headquarters in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The great Khabib Nurmagomedov is back in the United States. \u201cThe Eagle\u201d is in town for UFC 330,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-856407","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-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856407","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=856407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}