Khabib Nurmagomedov resisted the urge to pile in on Conor McGregor after his defeat by Dustin Poirier. Rather he was more nuanced in his critique of his bitter rival's performance in his UFC 257 rematch. "This is what happens when you change your team, leave the sparring partners who made you a champion and spar with little kids, far away from reality," he wrote.
Nurmagomedov, who remains the lightweight champion, may have a point. As McGregor later pointed out, his coaching team has remained intact since he took up martial arts as a teenager.
He has been trained by John Kavanagh and Owen Roddy throughout his career and has added to his team incrementally. His amateur boxing coach Phil Sutcliffe was the latest addition and was credited with
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