A post shared by Nasrat Haqparast (@nasrat_mma) on Jul 14, 2018 at 6:19am PDT
Nasrat Haqparast is hiding, laughing.
“I don’t want Firas (Zahabi) to see me, because he doesn’t want me to be here all the time.”
Haqparast, dressed in sweat-soaked training gear, is relaxing on the mats of Zahabi’s famous Tristar Gym after practice in Montreal, and his problem is that Zahabi wants him to do more of just that. Resting. Haqparast is a gym rat, and between two cancelled fights in the span of a few months, the 22-year-old German lightweight has been busting certain parts of his body for the better part of 2018.