Khabib Nurmagomedov announces retirement at UFC 254
Khabib Nurmagomedov choked out Justin Gaethje in the second round Saturday at Fight Island in Abu Dhabi and then promptly announced his retirement after UFC 254.
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- The number one pound for pound fighter in the world, Khabib Nurmagomedov.
- And Khabib Nurmagomedov has immediately resorted to tears, and you can be sure, bottling up a lot of those emotions here during this fight week, without his late father Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov. And now that the mission is accomplished and the task is done, he can exhale. And an amazing display from Gaethje coming in, both of these guys managed by Ali Abdelaziz.