{"id":445617,"date":"2022-05-06T07:47:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T14:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=445617"},"modified":"2022-05-06T07:47:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T14:47:39","slug":"islam-makhachev-shares-bold-prediction-for-potential-charles-oliveira-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/islam-makhachev-shares-bold-prediction-for-potential-charles-oliveira-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev shares bold prediction for potential Charles Oliveira fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight Islam Makhachev has made a bold prediction for a potential fight against Charles Oliveira.<\/p>\n<p>While Charles Oliveira may be <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/justin-gaethje-doesnt-think-charles-oliveira-poses-the-same-threat-as-khabib-nurmagomedov-once-a-coward-always-a-coward\/\">focusing his attention<\/a> on Justin Gaethje this weekend, it can never hurt to look ahead to the future &#8211; so long as he doesn&#8217;t get distracted. If &#8216;Do Bronx&#8217; is able to push past Gaethje and retain his UFC lightweight title at UFC 274, there&#8217;s a good chance that the next man he faces will be Islam Makhachev.<\/p>\n<p>A lot has been made of this match-up and what it would look like, and yet even though Makhachev will likely have to go through Beneil Dariush before it gets booked, he&#8217;s still willing to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/makhachevmma\/status\/1522346534611955714?s=21&amp;t=p4HAdD-YMBNWLEXeBZFD3Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offer up a prediction<\/a> for the hypothetical showdown.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will submit Oliveira inside 3rd., screen it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LH5W56si1n\">https:\/\/t.co\/LH5W56si1n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Makhachev Islam (@MAKHACHEVMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAKHACHEVMMA\/status\/1522346534611955714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will submit Oliveira inside 3rd., screen it&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As his UFC run has progressed, Makhachev has gradually been getting more and more confident. It makes sense, really, given that he&#8217;s been able to dominate just about everyone that he&#8217;s defeated up to this point.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;next coming of Khabib Nurmagomedov&#8217; is ready for his shot at the gold, even though he may have to wait a little bit longer to get it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Who would you back if the UFC booked Charles Oliveira vs Islam Makhachev for the lightweight strap?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight Islam Makhachev has made a bold prediction for a potential fight against Charles Oliveira. While Charles Oliveira may be focusing his attention on Justin Gaethje this weekend, it can never hurt to look ahead to the future &#8211; so long as he doesn&#8217;t get distracted. If &#8216;Do Bronx&#8217; is able to push past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":434840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10589,10285,39610],"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>Islam Makhachev shares bold prediction for potential Charles Oliveira fight<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC lightweight Islam Makhachev has made a bold prediction for a potential fight against Charles Oliveira later this year.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/islam-makhachev-shares-bold-prediction-for-potential-charles-oliveira-fight\/\" 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