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Darrell Horcher didn't actually expect to be offered Khabib Nurmagomedov fight

When Darrell Horcher tweeted that he'd fight anyone in the UFC at any time, he didn't expect to be offered Khabib Nurmagomedov on nine days' notice.

"When I said I'd fight anybody on any notice, obviously there's a better matchup you can have on nine days' notice than Khabib himself," Horcher said on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour. "I try to keep to my word, if I tweet about it, or say I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it."

Horcher (12-1) and his management set the bait expecting that the UFC would get someone else to fight the 22-0 Nurmagomedov, who needed an opponent at UFC on FOX 19 when Tony Ferguson dropped out last week.