Will we ever see Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov bury the hatchet?
No, most likely not.
Regardless of solely assembly as soon as contained in the Octagon, McGregor vs. Nurmagomedov is no doubt essentially the most intense rivalry in UFC historical past. Six years after their history-making encounter at UFC 229 — the one pay-per-view to eclipse two million buys in promotional historical past — their feud rages on with the Irish megastar usually taking digs at ‘The Eagle’ on social media and in interviews.
Lately, McGregor went off on each Nurmagomedov and former U.S. president Donald Trump after ’45’ dubbed the Dagestani his favourite UFC fighter of all time.
Whereas Trump bought off comparatively mild with McGregor calling his remarks a “campaign-ending resolution,” Nurmagomedov took the brunt of the backlash as ‘Mystic Mac’ labeled him a “smelly fats mountain monkey from the inbred mountains of Dagestan.”
Might Conor McGregor discover peace in preventing Nurmagomedov’s protege?
Daniel Cormier, who’s shut mates with Nurmagomedov, supplied his tackle the fixed quarreling between the 2 former champions and the opportunity of ever seeing them squash their beef.
“He simply hates Khabib. He hates him… They aren’t letting it go,” Cormier instructed Ben Askren throughout a latest episode of their Funky & The Champ podcast. “It’s deep-rooted, but it surely’s deep-rooted on either side, actually… [Khabib] doesn’t like this man, bro. They don’t like one another. That is loopy. It truly is. It’s deep. It’s very deep, however I feel the closest factor you’d get to a decision in that’s, once more, Conor beating [Michael Chandler] after which incomes a championship combat in opposition to Islam Makhachev, proper?
“Then Khabib might most likely attempt to discover some consolation in that and Conor might attempt to really discover redemption in making an attempt to beat the man that turned the man, proper? So, there’s tales there. I don’t know that it occurs as a result of Michael Chandler can’t appear to get a date” (h/t Sportskeeda).
The concept of Conor McGregor difficult present light-weight champion Islam Makhachev could appear far-fetched at this level, however contemplating the Irishman’s immense drawing energy and the pre-written historical past between McGregor and Eagles MMA, we might see Dana White placing that combat collectively in a bid to interrupt UFC 229’s file because the most-viewed occasion within the promotion’s 30+ years.
After all, that every one rides on McGregor getting previous Michael Chandler when (or if) they combat.
