Khabib Nurmagomedov believes Conor McGregor can come back from personal downfall: ‘He can change with him so many lives’

Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor have by no means seen eye to eye, however that doesn’t imply the retired UFC star has given up on his rival.

The previous few years have seen McGregor featured in headlines for all of the unsuitable causes, together with just lately being discovered answerable for sexual assault in a civil go well with stemming from a 2018 incident in Dublin (a verdict McGregor didn’t attraction). Even in his prime, McGregor earned a popularity as a “dangerous boy” for his outside-of-the-cage antics, and his feud with Nurmagomedov included a violent assault on a bus transporting the previous UFC light-weight champion in April 2018 wherein McGregor threw a shifting dolly threw a window.

On Saturday, Nurmagomedov spoke at a Muslim faith gathering at Tilles Heart in New York (streamed reside by influencer Sneako on Parti), and when he was requested about McGregor, he urged the Irishman search salvation.

“I don’t wish to point out his title,” Nurmagomedov stated. “That is punishment. That is punishment and [McGregor] retains doing this, retains doing this, retains doing this. All the things that occurred with these previous folks, girl this, alcohol this, medicine, every little thing. That is punishment. … However probably the most stunning a part of this, Allah all the time provides for us—it doesn’t matter anyone, all people—[a] likelihood to return again. All the time, on this world, an opportunity to return again.”

McGregor’s rap sheet additionally consists of an assault cost from 2019, when he punched an aged man in a Dublin pub, and he’s presently the defendant in one other civil go well with for an alleged sexual assault that passed off in Miami in 2023. He was additionally concerned in an embarrassing social media incident in July when rapper Azealia Banks leaked alleged nude photographs of McGregor.

Nurmagomedov, who settled his beef with McGregor with a fourth-round submission victory of their light-weight title combat at UFC 229, maintains that although McGregor’s popularity has taken a extreme hit since he final fought in July 2021, he has a accountability to scrub up his act for his legion of followers and followers.

“That is probably the most stunning factor,” Nurmagomedov stated. “It doesn’t matter the way you dangerous, Allah goes to offer you an opportunity to all the time come again. I feel he has an opportunity and he has to vary the best way how he’s residing. Why am I speaking about this? … If he’s going to vary, he can change with him so many lives, too. And that’s why I want him to vary himself.”

Watch the clip beneath, courtesy of Championship Rounds.