“He's just a fool. Okay, strip me of my belt if this is my fault. Last time, in April 2018, this was his mistake, but now this is not the mistake of Habib, but of the coronavirus. These are different things, ”Nurmagomedov said in an interview with ESPN.
On April 1, Nurmagomedov announced that the title fight with Ferguson, which was scheduled to take place on April 18 in New York as part of the main event of the UFC 249 tournament, was canceled because he could not fly away from Russia due to quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic. Thus, their battle has been canceled for the fifth time since 2015.
Earlier, Nikita Krylov expressed the opinion that Nurmagomedov is justly inferior to John Jones in the P4P rating.