July 29, 2021

Daniel Cormier Details Convo With Khabib After Conor McGregor’s Tweets About His Dead Father

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Former UFC 2 division champion Conor McGregor appeared to aim a tweet at Khabib Nurmagomedov’s dead father overnight and fans think he’s officially crossed the line. The Irishman lost to Dustin Poirier earlier this month at UFC 264 and longtime rival Nurmagomedov took pleasure in his defeat. Former lightweight champion Nurmagomedov tweeted: “Good always defeats evil,” and congratulated Poirier.

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McGregor hadn’t responded until Tuesday, with his now deleted tweet reading: “Covid is good and father is evil?” Khabib’s father and trainer, Abdulmanap, died last year following complications caused by Covid-19.

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Now one of Khabib’s closest friends in Daniel Cormier believes that Conor crossed the line and immediately called Khabib after the tweets surfaced:

“I get shock value and I get trying to get people to talk but way too far,” Cormier said on his ESPN show with co-host Ryan Clark (via MMAFighting). “To the point that I immediately called Khabib last night and said, ‘Are you OK?’ Asking him if he’s OK after having to see that, especially with no ability to do anything about it again. He spoke to my kids at my wrestling program the other day and said he was never happier than when he got to fight McGregor on the day. Because for so long, he wanted to get his hands on Conor and beat Conor up.”

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“Well, he can’t do that no more cause he’s not a prizefighter anymore. So now he just has to kind of swallow that. Way too far. Honestly, when Conor does stuff like that, it’s hard to understand how there’s still this mass amount of people that support that type of behavior. After the fight with Dustin Poirier, a lot of people questioned whether or not Conor McGregor was reaching to try and get in the head of Dustin Poirier. Reach back to a time where he had trash talk that could affect people. It didn’t seem to work against Poirier. I feel like from him talking about Dustin’s wife to now Khabib’s father, he is just taking it way too far.”

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“When you’re dealing with death and COVID and all these other things that we’ve dealt with over the last year and a half, that’s all off limits. We talked about wives and families being off limits, but when you’re talking about a man’s everything — Khabib’s dad was his everything — and you’re talking about him being gone today due to something that has been so terrible for our entire world, you use that in a sense to get back?”

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“You know what’s most disturbing? This wasn’t done the day after the fight or the same night of the fight,” Daniel Cormier explained. “This was done weeks after the fight, so it feels like it was thought of and it was thought through for Conor to tweet something like that.

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“Absolutely crossed the line. I think when stuff like that is being said, it’s a cry for help. Conor has all the money in the world, he has all the fame, but now when you start to dig at that level, it’s like somebody needs to get to McGregor and help him to start to kind of re-shift his mind and his focus and get him back to a better place. It’s unfortunate.”