The UFC 254 tournament took place this night on Boytsovsky Island in Abu Dhabi (UAE).
The main fight of the evening was the meeting in the octagon between the Dagestani fighter, the UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and the American Justin Geiji.
Khabib had a difficult first round, receiving unpleasant kicks from the American fighter, but already in the second round he almost immediately knocked down Gage, after which the champion conducted a "triangle" - the American was forced to surrender. Khabib remained an undefeated fighter with a record of 29-0.
The special sharpness of the fight was given by the fact that Khabib went to this fight for the first time without his father, who died from the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Immediately after the gong, Khabib burst into tears, and then made a shocking statement: he is ending his career as a professional fighter.
— This was my last fight... My mother did not want me to fight without my father, I promised that this would be my last fight. I am a simple boy from a mountain village. My father and I went. I didn't know that everything would fall on my shoulders. If you have parents, be with them. "I have one parent left - my mother, I want to spend time with her," Khabib emphasized.
