Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight world champion American fighter Sean O’Malley said on social networks that Russian Islam Makhachev will lose to Leon Edwards in a possible fight.
“Leon will defeat Islam,” O’Malley said.
On October 21, Makhachev scored an early victory over Alex Volkanovski in the main fight of the evening at the UFC 294 tournament in Abu Dhabi. The Russian player defeated his opponent by knockout in the first round and defended his title for the second time. He now has 25 wins in 26 fights.
On February 12, 2023, Makhachev defeated Alex Volkanovski by unanimous decision after five rounds at UFC-284. This was the Russian’s first title defence.
Makhachev entered the top 5 most mentioned Russia 2023 athletes. Media indexes for each of the athletes were compiled based on a database of 88 thousand sources, including online media, magazines, television and other types of media. Medvedev’s media index was 1.148 million, Dzyuba – 1.142 million, Ovechkin – 1.128 million. The top 5 also included fighter Makhachev and Real Sociedad player Arsen Zakharyan.
Earlier Makhacheva accused while cheating.