{"id":272900,"date":"2020-10-25T07:37:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T11:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=272900"},"modified":"2020-10-25T07:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T11:37:04","slug":"mma-legend-khabib-nurmagomedov-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/25\/mma-legend-khabib-nurmagomedov-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA legend Khabib Nurmagomedov announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_272901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-272901\" style=\"width: 1167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1167px-\u0425\u0430\u0431\u0438\u0431_\u041d\u0443\u0440\u043c\u0430\u0433\u043e\u043c\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432._12.9.2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-272901\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1167px-\u0425\u0430\u0431\u0438\u0431_\u041d\u0443\u0440\u043c\u0430\u0433\u043e\u043c\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432._12.9.2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1167\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1167px-\u0425\u0430\u0431\u0438\u0431_\u041d\u0443\u0440\u043c\u0430\u0433\u043e\u043c\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432._12.9.2019.jpg 1167w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1167px-\u0425\u0430\u0431\u0438\u0431_\u041d\u0443\u0440\u043c\u0430\u0433\u043e\u043c\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432._12.9.2019-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1167px-\u0425\u0430\u0431\u0438\u0431_\u041d\u0443\u0440\u043c\u0430\u0433\u043e\u043c\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432._12.9.2019-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1167px-\u0425\u0430\u0431\u0438\u0431_\u041d\u0443\u0440\u043c\u0430\u0433\u043e\u043c\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432._12.9.2019-1024x632.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1167px) 100vw, 1167px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-272901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nurmagomedov successfully defended his UFC lightweight title and extended his unbeaten record to 29-0 with a second-round victory in Abu Dhabi. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=85487628\">photo by \u0410\u0434\u043c\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u044f \u041f\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0430 \u0420\u0424\/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) champion Khabib Nurmagomedov announced his retirement Saturday after defeating American Justin Gaethje in the main event of the UFC 254.<\/p>\n<p>Nurmagomedov successfully defended his UFC lightweight title and extended his unbeaten record to 29-0 with a second-round victory in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>The match lasted 01:34 seconds into the round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod give me everything, and with my father, I love you so much, it was my last fight, when UFC called me about Justin, I talked to my mother, I promised her it would be my last fight,&#8221; Khabib said a post-fight interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to all this UFC team, everybody around the world, thank you so much Justin, you helped me a lot. I know you&#8217;re a great man. Today is my last fight in the UFC. It was my father, what else is there to prove? McGregor and Poirier fight in January, I choked out both of them, I&#8217;m not interested in this,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nurmagomedov, from Russia\u2019s northern Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, is the first Russian and first Muslim to win the UFC lightweight championship.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old beat Conor McGregor from Ireland in Las Vegas, Nevada in a 2018 lightweight title fight.<\/p>\n<p>Nurmagomedov lost his father and coach, Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, to the coronavirus in July.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL\u00a0\u2013 Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) champion Khabib Nurmagomedov announced his retirement Saturday after defeating American Justin Gaethje in the main &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":272901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272902,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272900\/revisions\/272902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}