{"id":323981,"date":"2019-09-01T07:07:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T14:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=323981"},"modified":"2019-09-01T07:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T14:07:36","slug":"khabib-nurmagomedov-admits-the-end-is-near-i-dont-have-a-lot-of-fights-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/khabib-nurmagomedov-admits-the-end-is-near-i-dont-have-a-lot-of-fights-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Khabib Nurmagomedov admits the end is near: \u201cI don\u2019t have a lot of fights ahead\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov says that he only has a few fights left in his career before he retires from MMA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Eagle&#8221; was recently on a conference call promoting UFC 242 and was asked how many fights left he has in his career. He says he doesn&#8217;t plan on hanging up his gloves just yet, but admits the time is coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Nurmagomedov said (<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/08\/kahbib-nurmagomedov-ufc-retirement-dont-have-lot-of-fights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">h\/t MMAjunkie.com<\/a>) to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood question,\u201d Nurmagomedov said when asked if retirement is looming. \u201cNot yet, but I\u2019m not a young fighter. I\u2019ve already been champion for years. I\u2019ve already defended my title. This is my second defense. Of course, I don\u2019t have a lot of fights ahead, because I don\u2019t want to fight when I\u2019m 40 years old. This isn\u2019t my plan. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the champ, he will talk to his team at American Kickboxing Academy and his family before he makes a decision one way or another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore I make a decision, I have to talk with my father, I have to talk with coach Javier (Mendez), all my brothers, (my management team) Dominance MMA and all the people around me,\u201d Nurmagomedov said. \u201cI can\u2019t make this decision alone. But right now, I\u2019m focused on competition, because I have too much fire inside me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It seems kind of crazy to think that a dominant fighter in his prime like Nurmagomedov is even contemplating retiring. But Nurmagomedov has said that he believes fighting is a young man&#8217;s sport and that he wants to get into business after he&#8217;s done fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, he will continue to train and defend his belt. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/khabib-nurmagomedov-explains-why-dustin-poirier-is-much-better-than-conor-mcgregor\/\">Nurmagomedov&#8217;s next title defense comes next Saturday at UFC 242 when he takes on Dustin Poirier<\/a> in a title unification bout against the interim champ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many fights do you believe Khabib Nurmagomedov has left in his MMA career?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov says that he only has a few fights left in his career before he retires from MMA. &#8220;The Eagle&#8221; was recently on a conference call promoting UFC 242 and was asked how many fights left he has in his career. He says he doesn&#8217;t plan on hanging up his gloves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":288814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10114,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Khabib Nurmagomedov admits the end is near: \u201cI don\u2019t have a lot of fights ahead\u201d | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov says that he only has a few fights left in his career before he retires from MMA.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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