{"id":751376,"date":"2026-07-08T22:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751376\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:57:12","slug":"conor-mcgregor-claims-khabib-nurmagomedov-has-done-nothing-in-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751376\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor claims Khabib Nurmagomedov has ‘done nothing’ in MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor McGregor’s<\/a> confidence has not lessened after five years removed from mixed martial arts. Ahead of UFC 329, McGregor reignited his blood feud with Khabib Nurmagomedov<\/a> and put himself ahead of the sport’s best.<\/p>\n

McGregor headlines UFC International Fight Week on Saturday, taking on Max Holloway<\/a> for the second time. A former two-division champion, he recently joined Complex<\/a>\u00a0to restructure a ranking of all-time great UFC fighters.<\/p>\n

The conversation naturally drifted to Khabib Nurmagomedov, who submitted McGregor in the most hostile grudge match UFC has ever seen. McGregor completely diminished Nurmagomedov’s accomplishments.<\/p>\n

“The guy’s done nothing in the sport. … Where is he now?” McGregor asked. “He’s gone. I don’t rate him at all. The man has no courage; never fought above weight divisions, no stoppages, no knockouts.”<\/p>\n

McGregor didn’t seem to care much that Nurmagomedov once held the record for most lightweight title defenses, retired undefeated … and defeated McGregor, handily.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nurmagomedov wasn’t the only name McGregor dismissed. At least he made the list, sitting at No. 9 with McGregor placing himself No. 1.<\/p>\n

McGregor completely omitted former two-division champion Georges St-Pierre<\/a>, claiming he took no risks and that McGregor would beat him in a fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McGregor, a former featherweight and lightweight champion fighting at welterweight this weekend, also put himself ahead of Jon Jones<\/a>. He believes he could beat Jones, claiming the former heavyweight and light heavyweight champion has poor boxing skills.<\/p>\n

“Jon looks very soft there. Where’s he now?” McGregor asked. “Here I am still. None of these boys, including Jon, are on my level. He’s got eight knockouts, I’ve got 19.” <\/p>\n

McGregor vs. Holloway 2 headlines UFC 329 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, airing Saturday exclusively on Paramount+.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Paramount+ and watch UFC 329 live<\/a>\u00a0for no additional fee — every UFC numbered event and UFC Fight Night is included with your subscription! Plans start as low as $8.99\/month or $89.99\/year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor’s confidence has not lessened after five years removed from mixed martial arts. Ahead of UFC 329,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[9806,58384,322240,90355,322242,99,6493,322239,322241],"class_list":["post-751376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-jon-jones","tag-khabib","tag-khabib-nurmagomedov","tag-mma-rankings","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-329","tag-ufc-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}