That’s the narrative surrounding a recent clip shared by Red Corner MMA on X. In the video, which you can see below, the former UFC lightweight world champion was seeing folding one of his training partners with a straight left to the solar plexus.
“The man came to the training camp unprepared and is now suffering,” Makhachev wrote on his Instagram stories.
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Earlier this year, Makhachev vacated his lightweight title to move up to welterweight, where he’s expected to challenge newly minted 170-pound king, Jack Della Maddalena.