Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president Dana White spoke Youtube channel Named Games follows the fallout from Russian fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov’s victory over Irishman Conor McGregor in 2018.
“Putin gave Khabib and his father $20 million worth of real estate in Russia. Then Nurmagomedov went to Muslim countries and got everything he wanted: cars, money, gyms. When Khabib reached this level of fame, we talked to him like we talk to Conor McGregor,” White said.
The fight between McGregor and Khabib took place in the fall of 2018. For Nurmagomedov, this was the first defense of the UFC championship belt. The Russians won by choke in the fourth round.
Khabib has had 29 fights in MMA and won every one of them. His last fight was in the fall of 2020, defeating American Justin Gaethje. Immediately after the fight, he announced that he had promised his mother that he would not fight without his father and that he was retiring from his professional career.
Previously White denied Consider Khabib the best fighter of all time.