{"id":196,"date":"2022-09-22T20:56:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T19:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=196"},"modified":"2022-09-23T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:00:15","slug":"khamzat-teammate-responds-to-khabibs-comments-advising-him-to-surround-himself-with-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/khamzat-teammate-responds-to-khabibs-comments-advising-him-to-surround-himself-with-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamzat teammate responds to Khabib&#8217;s comments advising him to surround himself with Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">Former UFC fighter and training partner of Khamzat Chimaev, Reza Madadi has responded to Khabib Nurmagomedov&#8217;s comments following his teammate&#8217;s failed weigh-in at UFC 279.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">What a crazy week UFC 279 was. One of the less exciting Pay Per Views of the year on paper, which within hours, after a press conference was canceled following a backstage altercation<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">, has seen its main combat map be almost completely overhauled.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">A cascade of unpredictable events, the first element of which is the completely failed weighing of Khamzat Chimaev.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">Supposed to face Nate Diaz in the main event of the evening, the rising welterweight \/ middleweight star appeared on the scales with an excess baggage of 3.4 kilos.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">A catastrophic weigh-in that will push the UFC matchmakers to balance the fights, by raising Khamzat in category, to face Kevin Holland.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">A last minute change that will not deny Borz, winning in less than three minutes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">Former lightweight champion of the organization, Khabib Nurmagomedov spoke about these last minute changes, and in particular the weighing of Khamzat, which he believes is intimately linked to the fact that his team lacks Muslims to guide him.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">If this statement did not make the main interested party react, one of his training partners wished to express his disagreement, within an extremely respectful message.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">Former UFC lightweight Reza Madadi spoke directly to Khabib via an Instagram post, which reads:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC fighter and training partner of Khamzat Chimaev, Reza Madadi has responded to Khabib Nurmagomedov&#8217;s comments following his teammate&#8217;s failed weigh-in at UFC 279. What a crazy week UFC 279 was. One of the less exciting Pay Per Views of the year on paper, which within hours, after a press conference was canceled following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}