De spanningen lopen nog steeds hoog op na het incident wat ontstond op UFC 229 aan het einde van de wedstrijd tussen Khabib Nurmagomedov en Conor McGregor. Khabib toog naar Instagram met een wel heel duidelijke boodschap aan de UFC.
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Khabib dreigt te stoppen met vechten voor de UFC als zijn teamgenoot ontslagen wordt, deze was een van de personen die in een handgemeen raakte met McGregor. Onderstaand de verklaring die Khabib plaatste.
"I would like to address the UFC; Why didn't you fire anyone when their team attacked the bus and injured a couple of people? They could have killed someone there, why no one says anything about insulting my homeland, religion, nation, family?"
"Why do you have to punish my team, when both teams fought. If you say that I started it, then I do not agree, I finished what he had started. In any case, punish me, @zubairatukhugov has nothing to do with that."
"If you think that I’ll keep silent then you are mistaken. You canceled Zubaira’s fight and you want to dismiss him just because he hit Conor. But don’t forget that it was Conor who had hit my another Brother FIRST, just check the video."
"If you decide to fire him, you should know that you’ll lose me too. We never give up on our brothers in Russia and I will go to the end for my Brother. If you still decide to fire him, don’t forget to send me my broken contract, otherwise I'll break it myself."
"And one more thing, you can keep my money that you are withholding. You are pretty busy with that, I hope it won’t get stuck in your throat. We have defended our honor and this is the most important thing. We intend to go to the end."
