Khabib Nurmagomedov stopped fighting in October 2020. He was a great UFC champion and never lost a fight. But he doesn’t want his son to be a fighter like him.
Even though Khabib is good at fighting and teaching others, he hopes his son chooses something else. But Khabib knows it might be hard because his son is interested in MMA, the sport Khabib used to do.
“I know for sure he’s going to train,” Nurmagomedov said Thursday during an appearance for Class A Events in Canada. “He will study, but about professional athlete, I don’t know honestly. He just asks me too much questions because when I retired, he was only three years old and he don’t understand nothing. A couple of weeks ago he asked me, ‘Father, can you fight like Islam Makhachev? I’m like, ‘Why you ask?’ (He said,) ‘Because he’s a very good fighter. I never seen you fight like him.’ I’m like, ‘OK, this is a very good question.’
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“I told him four years ago, you were only two or three. He was a baby when I was fighting. He tried to ask me can I watch your fights, he’s just beginning to bother me. I don’t know how I’m going to deal with him, but personally, I don’t want him to become a professional athlete. But, if he choose, what we can do? I’m not going to hold him (back) or do something, but honestly, I don’t want. I just want him to become a normal human because professional athletes, they are not normal people.”
Khabib Nurmagomedov’s cousins are also in MMA and doing great. Umar Nurmagomedov just won a fight in UFC and is ranked in the top 10 for bantamweight fighters.
Usman Nurmagomedov is also undefeated and holds the lightweight championship in Bellator, another MMA organization.
