Before each fight, Habib must have some kind of scandal surrounding his name. This is inevitable if you are a big sports star. Boxer Sergey Kovalev can tell best of all: a few days before his spring fight with Elader Alvarez, rumors appeared in the press about the attack of the Russian champion on American actress Jamie Fronts. Allegedly, Crasher last summer followed the girl to her house after the party where they met, and attacked her with fists.
That story quickly died out, but before the next fight of Kovalev happened a new one - similar. Shortly before the bright victory over Anthony Yard, they said about Sergey that he behaved improperly during the flight: he pestered the passenger, tried to kiss her first, and then threw bills ... And in the end again, no evidence, no scandal. A boxer calmly enters the ring, wins championship fights and his family is always with him.
Unpleasant stories stick to Habib no worse. True, in the sense they are, as a rule, of another kind and many of them Nurmagomedov provoked himself. For example, it was not entirely clear why Eagle, shortly before the main battle in his life with Conor McGregor, needed to arrange a showdown with various artists eager to perform in his native Makhachkala. The conflict with cultural figures did not prevent him from removing the sworn enemy from his path in the octagon.
Before the second defense of the title, Nurmagomedov was again at the center of the conflict, but this time it was not him who did take the dirty linen in public. Oleg Taktarov, a well-known critic of Russian MMA fighters and the first in the history of our country holder of the UFC belt (we write this way - do not dig into this wording and argue with it), suddenly broke out in harsh words about Khabib and his father Abdulmanap. A few months ago, Taktarov attacked, through his "instagram", the heavyweights Sergey Kharitonov and Vitaly Minakov, for which he himself was criticized by the MMA public in our country.
After all this, Taktarov promised to stop discussing with Russian journalists and the media in general the Russian MMA and its heroes. However, on the eve of the main event of the year for our mixed martial arts Oleg Nikolaevich could not take it anymore and broke the silence.
"It was Khabib's personal initiative," Taktarov refers to the story of Nurmagomedov with Black Star artists in an interview with the YouTube channel "RELAXER". - Nobody forbade Creed's concert. He decided that he could become the Vicar of Allah in Dagestan. This man trained all his life, nothing worked out first but suddenly began to work out, and it seemed to him that he was chosen by the Most High and could dictate his conditions.
Initially, the tension between Taktarov and Nurmagomedov arose because of a general dispute - is it right to consider Oleg the first UFC champion from Russia or Habib legitimately won this title when he defeated Al Yakvintu last spring.
The hottest thing was when Nurmagomedov pinned Taktarov in social networks: the UFC published a poster with a list of the company's champions for all time, and it did not include the winner of the UFC 6 tournament, who received a belt for that success. Habib accompanied this post with a mocking commentary "I don't see Taktarov." It turns out, according to the logic of the promotion, Oleg Nikolaevich really can not be considered a champion, as they say, in a new style. In 1995, the Absolute Fighting Championship tournaments were held in a different format: Taktarov won his trophy, beating three opponents in one day. Habib went through 10 people in six and a half years before the belt of the Undisputed appeared on his waist.
And yesterday, on August 28, a new scandal arose. In addition to the excerpt above, Taktarov in the same interview, for example, pinned up Khabib and his father Abdulmanap on the same topic of the championship.
"I won it 23 years ago. I lived beautifully for 20 years. And suddenly, out of nowhere, experts appeared, dad, coach, great magician and wizard appeared, and decided that I was not the first UFC champion. They called me the day before the interview issueance and said that technically I was not the first one and everyone should forget about me.
How can you doubt this? This is, this is the foundation on which you, dogs (it is important to note here, Taktarov refers more likely to interviewers), grew up. Emelianenko doubted this foundation a couple of times - and what happened to him? I do not ask for money, fame. Just don't be bullshit. Everyone who barked got knocked out, their biography went nowhere. This is the law of life, the law of the universe. "
There are no names here, although even without them it's clear who is "dad", "great coach", "wizard". A hint about the biography is also very easy to figure out.
