Khabib Nurmagomedov defends his UFC lightweight title against Dustin Poirier at UFC 242 in Abu Dhabi this weekend. The Dagestan fighter believes he is ‘a much better fighter’ now than he was against Conor McGregor in October last year.
The last time we saw Nurmagomedov, he was flying over the cage in Las Vegas, running and jumping into the crowd after choking-out McGregor in the fourth round only for a mass brawl to erupt. He subsequently served a nine-month ban and was fined $500,000 by the UFC.