Khabib Nurmagomedov will most likely never fight again as he is "very much settled as a coach", his longtime trainer has said.
The former UFC lightweight champion has been retired since beating Justin Gaethje in 2020.
He had previously flirted with the idea of making a comeback - a few months after retiring - when he had a meeting with Dana White after UFC 257.
But that never went anywhere as he spends most of his time these days teaching wrestling classes at American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, California.
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And according to his coach Javier Mendez, there is no chance of him ever coming back at all.
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“No [he’s not fighting again], he’s looked at it,” he said on The MMA Hour per MMA Fighting. “He’s looked at when the fighters come out and get introduced by Bruce Buffer and he says ‘I love this thing’ but he’s very much settled as a coach and making sure that all his brothers - they’re not brothers but to him they’re brothers - that they all get the best opportunity to win a title.
“A lot of them are going to win titles. You’ll see. There’s going to be a lot of people from Abdulmanap’s gym that will win titles.
“As a coach, I would say he compares more to his father than he does me. He’s more his father’s student than he is mine. He has added some of my things that I’ve instilled in him but it’s more like 85 percent father, 15 percent me.
"That’s how great an influence his father had on him. A great influence.
“I would say I added about 15 percent. He definitely has me in him, too, but you can’t deny his father. He is definitely his father’s son.”
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Nurmagomedov, dubbed 'The Eagle' whose father Abdulmanap trained him for the majority of his career, has gained a growing reputation as one of the best coaches in the fight game.
Mendez added: “The same thing for his father, he cares.
"He really cares. He thinks about his fighters. He does everything that’s right for them.
"If they’re late, or there’s something, he’s out there giving them a talking. He takes care of them financially if he needs to. Whatever he needs to do, he does for them to make them excel.
"If they’re going off the track, he puts them back on track. Just like his father did. Everything his father used to do, he’s doing, too and like I said, I just added about 15 percent to how he coaches but mostly it’s his father.”
“[Coaching] is something he has been doing since probably 2013 or 2014 when he was coming down with Islam and Abubakar [Nurmagomedov] and Zubaira [Tukhugov] and Umar [Nurmagomedov] and Usman [Nurmagomedov]. What he would do even when he was fighting for his title fights, he’d be done sparring and he’d wait around to watch those guys spar and coach them with me and the other coaches while they’re sparring. That’s the kind of love he has for the game and that’s the kind of love he has for his brothers.”
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