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Khabib Nurmagomedov put on his coach’s shoes after hanging up his gloves as the undefeated UFC lightweight champion in 2020. Nurmagomedov has since been invested in the careers of his teammates and cousins including Islam Makhachev, Umar Nurmagomedov, Usman Nurmagomedov, among others.
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Nurmagomedov (29-0) is evidently animated while imparting instructions to his teammates from the corner. “The Eagle” recently revealed that coaching his friends and family takes an emotional toll on him. Having fought inside the cage throughout his life, Nurmagomedov feels incapacitated when his role is reduced to just advising from outside the cage. Nurmagomedov revealed that he took three days to return to emotional normalcy after his cousin Usman’s last rematch against Paul Hughes.
You Can Only Give Advice
“[Coaching] is the most difficult part because all my life I was inside the cage fighting, but now I’m outside the cage just talking,” Nurmagomedov said at a press conference in Chicago. “I don’t like this because it’s very hard to control what my brothers are doing [in the cage]; you can only give advice. Can you imagine someone you love going to fight and you cannot help him? It’s not easy. After Usman’s last fight, it took me three days to come back to my normal emotional position.”
Khabib reveals the reason why he’s so intense while cornering his fighters 👀😳
“[Coaching] is the most difficult part because all my life I was inside the cage, but now I’m outside the cage just talking. I don’t like this because it’s very hard to control what my brothers are… pic.twitter.com/g3Q4ZkGokw
— Red Corner MMA (@RedCorner_MMA) November 9, 2025
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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