Do not forget that story from the weekend the place AKA head coach Javier Mendez strongly implied that Khabib Nurmagomedov may be getting ready to return to combating? Effectively, it ain’t occurring. So sayeth … Javier Mendez.
“Solely when he fights he trains with me. That I can let you know,” Mendez mentioned within the earlier report. “Whether or not he fights or not, I don’t know. However he’s coaching with me so you may take that for what it’s price.”
“His ft are within the water, however he hasn’t dived in,” Mendez continued. “I do know this, he’s coaching with me, as a result of I’m coaching him. I do know that. And he says ‘Coach, this time we have now extra time to work as a result of I’m not in combat mode but. But!”
A couple of too many individuals took that for what it was price, and now the American Kickboxing Academy is having to make clear that Khabib isn’t coming again.
“Cease all this nonsense relating to Khabib coming again and me and him coaching,” he mentioned with an exasperated snicker. “There’s been no such factor occurring. We’re not discussing coaching. We by no means have. Khabib remains to be dedicated to what he mentioned: He’s devoted his time to his household. He’s not working folks’s corners. He’s not gonna ever combat. To my information, it has by no means been spoken about.”
“Nothing has ever been mentioned about combating,” he reiterated. “No coaching, no nothing. We educated collectively, truly, however we’re doing cardio, we weren’t doing any form of kickboxing or any form of MMA coaching by any means. So … cease with the clickbait. Bought it?”
My brother in Christ, you had been the one which mentioned the issues! You’re the one promoting premium top-shelf four-star deal with store bait! Are we speculated to ignore it when Khabib’s former coach says this stuff?
With UFC 300 hypothesis at an all-time excessive, it’s unsurprising that individuals instantly began matchmaking Khabib up with Leon Edwards and Georges St-Pierre. If it’s unfaithful, we wager Khabib is fairly peeved. He ghosted the game nearly utterly in 2023 as a part of an try and stay a traditional life. Now he’s obtained extra comeback speak in 2024 to look ahead to.
So we simply need to surprise … why did Javier hype up a possible return, realizing all this?