After scoring a one-sided unanimous decision over Al Iaquinta to win the UFC lightweight title at UFC 223 and improve to 26-0, one might have expected the Dagestani standout to call out rival Conor McGregor, or maybe even Tony Ferguson.
Instead, Nuramgomedov told the crowd at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center that he’d like to fight the legendary Georges St-Pierre, preferably at Madison Square Garden in November.
St-Pierre, though, doesn’t sound like he’s on board at the moment. The former two-weight-class champion from Montreal told MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani early Sunday morning that there’s too much for the UFC to do with the lightweight division before he even thinks of coming to Nurmagomedov’s turf.