Khabib Nurmagomedov
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where we went to Kislovodsk it's not far from the Elbrus it's maybe two or three hours by drive but they have big Olympic center last time when we saw there like together with the like small camp it's not like real for Olympic level like training camp but now it's we find some new place it's really big they have hotel for like 600 athletes you know
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and they have all sports that was probably the one of the coolest things we ever did is come to russia and then seven hour drive yeah you have the hard hard time there yeah when you come jet lag everything you come by a bus like winter snow everywhere next time you have to enjoy you know come april may it's a good weather good time Where's your ranch at with all the horses?
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I saw you riding a horse. It's close to Mahachkala. And you have horses, goats? Horses, goats. It's now become, it's big. I make a new horse stable for many horses now. And I will bring more animals there. I have almost 20 horses in the village in Dagestan. And everybody gives me the horse, you know. And I bought like two months ago some horse from U.S. special for racing. How much was that?
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Delivered, I paid 18,000. Oh, that's not bad. Just for the delivery, though.
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Yeah. I buy in the auction. For the guy who like talk very fast. Sold, yeah.
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So you got your best horses from the U.S.? I hope. Maybe. Nobody know what's going to be. Never. It's horse just two years old, you know. And maybe it's going to be good. Maybe it's going to be... I thought you were going to put it into racing. Yeah. After one year. She have to training, training. Pompos, pompos.
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mountains training there and we'll see I hope because I want because all my horses for not for racing you know just my friends can come to we go somewhere but the racing is For racing horse, it's different. They like exactly same like professional athlete. Training in the morning, they put in the stable, sleep, like rest all day.
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Evening time, they train again, eat, like same things what the athletes did, yeah.
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You know why I told this? Like, all country you can do, like...
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things for the training you know bring some gym like a lot of things but first of all in daghestan food all food is organic from the farm like very close and gym we have very big gym everything inside the gym cage coaches we have a lot of coaches and it's not mostly important not except expensive for the fighters you know who can come from other country for like us
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uf us like everything is spent but dagestan you can come like maybe maximum like one and a half thousand one thousand dollars you spent for the one month strength yeah i remember when we went there the food was you could taste the difference
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yeah because they're organic and in our gym we even don't have the fridge to put the food you know we every every morning they start to cook for the athletes fresh fresh fresh every day i saw khabib talking recently in an interview and he said that even yourself included you guys have not you don't just have the discipline but you guys have sacrificed like so much over the last
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Of course, all my life, you know. The discipline, I follow all my life. And this is the key, you know. I never go some bad place, never do some bad things. Sleep on time, wake up, eat, try to eat always clean, you know. And that's why we're in the up right now. Even you were very young.
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no not very young i'm when i understood you know i'm i'm gonna be professional athlete and i follow all this you know if you want to be sacrificed and you want to be in the high level many years you have to follow this like for example cristiano ronaldo how many years how old he now and he's still in the top because he followed all discipline full of look how he look now in like 39 or 38.
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Still in very good shape because of eat, because of sleep. Who do you think is better, him or Messi? Like person, Ronaldo I like more. But players, they both good.
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No, no, no. nothing because dagestan everybody training you know everybody training science they go school you know eight years old they start start to do some things not like mma and it's not good idea to put your kids when they become eight nine years old to the mma
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we have a lot of olympic sports wrestling judo sambo sambo not olympics but some like other sports you know like myself what i did i go taekwondo wrestling sambo judo and i moved to the mma you know because or all the other sports, amateur sports, help you to be successful, help you to be like good athlete, you know?
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Because I have 25, 26 professional fights, but in amateur career, I have almost 300, 200 fights.
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Beginning when I go to some competitions, like 10 years old. Oh, wow.
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okay wow i think your whole life did you ever play any other like random sports that anyone would know about like just that aren't fighting i play soccer i have a couple medals from the soccer i did wrestling sambo a lot or shusanda never golf or anything like that you don't like golf right you played i said you sent me a message saying that like golf sucks maybe i don't understand what it is okay you
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Shut one times and go like buy a golf cart. Why you not burn? You not burn. It's a mental game too though. You not burn calories, nothing. Yeah. You can walk. Maybe I think, I thought like it's good area. Nobody see you like you go with your friends and talk some like, you know, you can talk, you can spend time, but not...
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We play one time in Canada. It's golf not for me. I like to do some activity, you know, moving some, like, but one shot. I'm waiting for other people. I told them, hey, let's go by run to the other place, you know, because golf cart, it's... You know what would be a good video if we came back is to verse you guys in Dagestani basketball.
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daguestan basketball you know you know you're moving too much i feel like they're fighting though for some reason too much like play resting everything but golf it's not for me i start to play now paddle paddle tennis yeah are you good at that yeah it's i like it so much it's blowing up and i'm planning to open some paddle center in dagestan
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fight like how it's going to go and in your mind what you think is going to happen it's just important things you have to think and keep like you know because you have to in your mind you have to put you in some bad position always if if this happened what i'm gonna do and in the training also of course oh okay if like my training partner they cannot take me down if they they can't take me down you know
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I have to let them like take me down and beginning from this position, because maybe in the fight, some things can happen. It can take me down and it's have to be not surprise for me, not something new. You know, I have to be ready for that moment. And in my mind, always I put myself on some position and I think what I'm going to do from this position.
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in ufc i have one goal i don't want to leave the ufc without second belt and after what i'm gonna do i don't know you know spend more time with family friends because last 10 years i travel a lot a lot you know my kids my friend my family even not see me you know that's why i have to spend more time in home
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It's not my job, you know. We will sit and talk with Dana, with my managers. But I want to fight more years.
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But even right now, it's a rematch. It's not big sense to make the rematch. I always want some new name on my list. But if we're looking for the rankings, Arman, he's deserved fight for the title, for sure. He's the number one contender right now. And I don't want to look behind him, but I don't see some new challenge.
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Yeah, because first time we go all distance, it's really good fights. We took the bonus performance of the night. But right now I want to finish him because I'm always good in the rematch and I want to finish him.
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do you see yourself getting that finish inside three rounds i will because you know any chance i have to my if my opponent give me like small chance to finish i always looking for the finish and if i have something small option i will what do you what do you think is going to be the biggest difference in this fight than last one with armand
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I don't think it's going to be a big difference because he has always the same style. And it's not like secret. I have also good wrestling, same style always. I try to take my opponents, hold him, make some damage, and finish.
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Of course, we have plan. We always make plan for any opponents. We sit with the coaches, with the team, and we made the plan.
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We have Assad. He's really good in the street fight, and he has crazy experience, you know.
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Assad have also fight in the UFC cage. He jumped to the cage and landed couple punch on the McGregor.
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Too far, too gone? We're never going to come to Dagestan. We're not friends. We don't want him to come.
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uh i don't know maybe some business honestly because you know all my life i did same things i never thinking like i will do i will do this because and i'm still not doing some business because i don't want to thinking in the training i was my business of going there i have my my team my brothers who take care of this where i invest some money but i'm never thinking about this like singular focus on the fight
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Yeah, of course. Because if you're thinking about something inside the gym, it's dangerous. You have to be 100% in the gym, training, focused. But if you're thinking, oh, how much I make today, how much my company, how much my business thinking, you're not in the gym.
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Of course, I did something, some investing. Yeah. But I have people who take care of, you know. If I need, I can ask them what the numbers like last month. But I don't control. I never go inside to watch, you know. No, I have one job, and I am 100% there, and I don't have time to control something.
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Moussar, yeah. This guy's tough. His style, you know, hard to finish opponents, you know. He has style, pressure them, take them down, make some damage, but... It's hard to finish, but last fight he had a good fight against Aljamain, but who can finish Aljamain? They both have almost the same style and Aljamain is a former champion.
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mouse are looking good in this fight try to he try he told us hey i will try to finish it but very hard mouse are just beginning to strike with him audio go try to take him down you know it's very good fighting but he's uh he has he have opportunity to be a ufc champion you know
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do you see the umar and mirab fight playing out it's tough fight mirab you know it's hard worker you know who come from the bad life and training because of uh hard work he's a champion right now you know and i know he want to defense his belt and he training so hard for omar but omar is uh also last 10 years he training with us hard worker you know he's a
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His dream, he wake up, he sleep with the, to be UFC champion. He have everything to be UFC champion because, you know, this guy is so hungry.
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training training so hard what makes him so crazy like in the gym he's just like it's not crazy you know i understood you know he's this is like what his father did always but with his father we can sit and talk a coach today i'm a little bit tired can i do something else but with habib it's not working what happens if you tell him like i'm i'm a bit tired today
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do something else go running but not rest one day i asked him um wednesday like middle of the week you know maybe i'm gonna rest because tomorrow i have sparring he said yes okay okay you can rest and friday after training i made the video and asked him hey how's this week how's everybody working what do you think your opinion i just make instagram story say Like I put from the five, four.
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I ask him, why four? Because everybody working hard this week. Because Wednesday you take rest, that's why it's four.
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I have my training partner. I'm not sparring with Khabib. He's so big now, he's not sparring, but I have one of the best sparring partners. What makes our team great? We have a lot of high-level athletes, and we push each other every day. Everybody have good coaches, good gyms, but one of the things what we have more than everybody, they're the killers in the gym, you know?
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No, I sleep. Yeah. our rules inside the gym tapping outs never never happens in daghestan does it damn sometimes happens you know you have to be smart you know it's not about like impossible but you have to be smart and i don't want to put myself in some position where i have to tap how come isn't hasbulla from daghestan yeah how come his grappling is still pretty weak
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He has to make some fight, you know, to show people. He should go over there and challenge him. And show people his level in MMA.
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Yeah, we just meet him last night. He came from Dagestan yesterday with Kurban. Kurban bring me honey after the win. I want Dagestan honey, try it.
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No, obviously it's from Dagestan. When you come to Dagestan, you will try. Okay. We should go again.
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i'm waiting for you in you're way more intimidating when you're saying april april april you will come to dagestan brother yeah i'll be there invite you very good he was scared to come last time he didn't come i'm not scared of i just had busy he didn't come last year this guy who i make the podcast what is your name i don't know she asked me russia have wi-fi
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It's crazy, man. Just open YouTube or, I don't know, Google. This is crazy question, make me like surprised, you know, Russia have Wi-Fi. They think everybody training with beer, like, you know, it's crazy.
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and you guys have to come to russia and show us people how it's beautiful yeah all right and they have best wi-fi in the world very cheap and speed very high all right that sounds good awesome thank you bro thank you guys we'll be rooting for you bro