Conor McGregor is feeling a little bit of vindication following a collection of horrific terrorist assaults in Dagestan, the hometown of his longtime rival Khabib Nurmagomedov.
No less than 21 folks had been killed, together with 16 cops, and one other 25 had been injured after armed males attacked a synagogue, church buildings, and police publish within the metropolis of Derbent and Dagestan’s capital Makhachkala on Sunday, June 23. Per a report from CNN, attackers “set the constructing on hearth utilizing Molotov cocktails” on the synagogue in Derbent whereas police and safety guards had been killed outdoors through the assault.
Sergey Melikov, head of the Dagestan Republic, stated at the very least six “militants” had been additionally killed following the assault, considered one of which has been recognized as Gadzhimurad Kagirov, a former MMA fighter who was as soon as affiliated with Khabib Nurmagomedov and the UFC Corridor of Famer’s late father, Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov.
Within the wake of the surprising information, Conor McGregor, thought of to be Nurmagomedov’s best foe contained in the Octagon, has stayed busy, tweeting and deleting his ideas on the state of affairs accompanied with the hashtag #ConorWasRight.
Just lately, the Irish megastar as soon as once more posted the hashtag in response to a video from Aussie Cossack of Nurmagomedov’s Eagle MMA health club being raided by Russian safety forces in Makhachkala.
Conor McGregor first accused Khabib of getting ties to terrorism in 2018
McGregor first prompt that Nurmagomedov had ties to terrorism in 2018, accusing the previous light-weight champion’s supervisor, Dominance MMA’s Ali Abdelaziz, of being a “mendacity terrorist snitch” forward of his record-setting combat with ‘The Eagle’ at UFC 229.
The Washington Publish‘s Des Bieler later wrote that McGregor’s feedback seemed to be referring to a 2013 ebook titled Enemies Inside: Contained in the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s Last Plot In opposition to America. In it, the authors declare that Abdelaziz labored with the New York Police Division and the FBI earlier than they grew involved he had turn out to be a double agent and tried to deport him.
Abdelaziz, after all, is among the extra well-known managers in combined martial arts, that includes an all-star consumer record that consists of Nurmagomedov, Kamaru Usman, Justin Gaethje, Henry Cejudo, and Kayla Harrison.
