“Muhammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan was a great expert in MMA. The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi received us with great honor. We discussed further plans for the development of MMA in the world, ”wrote Nurmagomedov Sr. in his Instagram.

On the night of September 7-8, at the UFC 242 tournament in Abu Dhabi, Nurmagomedov defeated American Dustin Porye by a strangulation in the third round and for the second time in his career he defended the belt of the UFC lightweight champion.

Earlier, UFC fighter Andrei Orlovsky spoke about the fight between Nurmagomedov and Porie.