Khabib Nurmagomedov’s father and coach, Abdulmanap, has been hospitalised after developing “flu and pneumonia-like symptoms” after walking in the mountains near his home in Russia.
Abdulmanap is a very present figure in Khabib’s career, regularly appearing at his fights in UFC as his head coach. But it appears he also has a taste for mountain trekking, taking a two-day walk in the Russian hills where Khabib regularly trains in Dagestan.
However, Russian journalist Ramazan Rabadanov reports that Abdulmanap is now in hospital as a result of the hike. “Abdulmanap is in Makhachkala, in the Second City Hospital,” Rabadanov stated. “He got sick in the mountains. “He walked for two days, the brothers barely persuaded to go to the hospital.
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