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Farah Hannoun

Khabib Nurmagomedov reflects on Conor McGregor rivalry: ‘I just tried to bite his heart’

Khabib Nurmagomedov couldn’t wait to get his hands on Conor McGregor.

Nurmagomedov submitted McGregor to retain his lightweight title in October 2018 at UFC 229, in what to this day is the highest-selling pay-per-view in company history. There was plenty of bad blood between the two, and McGregor ramped up the trash talk to personal, and almost physical, levels. McGregor tried to intimidate Nurmagomedov in the lead-up to his title fight with Al Iaquinta at UFC 223 by throwing a dolly on the UFC fighter bus he was in.

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