{"id":3519,"date":"2024-04-10T16:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2024-04-11T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T15:24:13","slug":"islam-makhachev-better-than-khabib-nurmagomedov-justin-gaethje-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/islam-makhachev-better-than-khabib-nurmagomedov-justin-gaethje-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev better than Khabib Nurmagomedov? Justin Gaethje responds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ustin Gaethje spotted a difference between Islam Makhachev and Khabib Nurmagomedov. He thinks \u2018The Eagle\u2019 is better than Makhachev.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Saturday at UFC 300, Justin Gaethje will attempt to defend his BMF title against Max Holloway. For this fight, \u2018The Highlight\u2019 predicts a huge war. To see if he will be able to beat &#8216;Blessed&#8217;, who has never lost by KO or TKO in his career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If he wins in this exciting meeting, Justin Gaethje (25-4) could also be propelled for a title shot&#8230; Even if Dustin Poirier is also well placed for a chance at the title. The current champion, Islam Makhachev, is expected to defend his lightweight title this summer, but we do not yet know who against.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an interview with the SHAK MMA media on YouTube, &#8216;The Highlight&#8217; spoke about the Dagestani champion. And he did not fail to compare Makhachev to the legendary Khabib Nurmagomedov. \u201cIslam is strong, he will be difficult to beat. But he&#8217;s not unbeatable. He has already lost. And I think that\u2019s the biggest difference between him and Khabib,\u201d Gaethje said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_68176\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s8fN1QJ3k4U?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Islam Makhachev, more affordable than Khabib?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indeed, Makhachev (25-1) already tasted defeat in 2015. Against Adriano Martins, he took a big knockout for his second fight in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus, the American considers that Islam Makhachev is more \u201caffordable\u201d than the undefeated Khabib Nurmagomedov (29-0), now retired from MMA. In the past, Justin Gaethje went up against Khabib in a title fight (during UFC 254). \u2018The Eagle\u2019 submitted Gaethje in the 2nd round, in what was the last fight of his career.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_82061\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GSBKjdGMNjw?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ustin Gaethje spotted a difference between Islam Makhachev and Khabib Nurmagomedov. He thinks \u2018The Eagle\u2019 is better than Makhachev. This Saturday at UFC 300, Justin Gaethje will attempt to defend his BMF title against Max Holloway. For this fight, \u2018The Highlight\u2019 predicts a huge war. To see if he will be able to beat &#8216;Blessed&#8217;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,86],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-mma-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519"}],"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=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}