On May 12, 2021, Ramzan Kadyrov decided to host an impromptu live chat on Instagram with his followers.
Dressed in a grey tracksuit and matching baseball hat emblazoned with the Akhmat MMA fight club logo, the Chechen dictator answered a wide range of questions before focusing on his beloved combat sports. After boasting about the athletic prowess of Chechen athletes, Kadyrov went on a bizarre rant about former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, whom he referred to as a “UFC project.”
“Khabib is a good athlete, but he is a UFC project,” Kadyrov said during the Instagram live chat. “He is 100 percent a project because they have a good relationship with Dana White. If someone misses a fight, they are immediately removed from the rating, and Khabib has never been removed from the rating. And he also knows that he is a UFC project. If it is not a project, then I have never seen our brother Khabib perform with the flag of the Russian Federation, the flag of Dagestan
Khabib s undefeated cousin Usman Nurmagomedov set to make Bellator debut
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Khabib Nurmagomedov alongside his cousin Usman. Photo: Khabib Nurmagomedov/Instagram
Khabib Nurmagomedov may have retired from fighting but a member of his family, another Nurmagomedov, is ready to begin his career in the USA.
Usman Nurmagomedov, a cousin of Khabib, will make his Bellator debut this Friday opposite Mike Hamel.
It will be the first time that a member of the Nurmagomedov clan will fight on a Bellator card.
When MMA Junkie asked him why he chose Bellator over UFC, the much sought after undefeated prospect joked: “We’ve got enough Nurmagomedov’s in the UFC so we needed to move on, so that’s why I picked Bellator. They needed one as well.”