Published 18:22 IST, December 16th 2019

Khabib Nurmagomedov philosophically advises Cristiano Ronaldo over retirement plans

Khabib Nurmagomedov gave some valuable retirement advice to his friend Cristiano Ronaldo. Know what the UFC lightweight champion has to say about Ronaldo.

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UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has alrey revealed his retirement plans and said that he has three-four fights left before calling it a day officially. However, he wants footballer Cristia Ronaldo to do same with his football career. Both Khabib and Ronaldo has achieved almost everything in ir career and y are regarded as one of best of ir era. Well, when it comes to taking a call about ir future, both of m are apparently t on same p.

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UFC: Khabib Nurmagomedov wants Cristia Ronaldo to retire

Cristia Ronaldo is still fresh with his brace for Juventus in last night’s game and he has interest in hanging up his boots anytime soon. However, Khabib feels that Ronaldo must retire before younger players take his place and he is planning same for his MMA career. In an interview with RT Sport, Khabib said that body will be around forever, so it is important to leave at right time.

After achieving 28 straight victories and an UFC gold, undefeated Dstani believes that re are people who are younger and hungrier. Thus, it is better to quit when you are at your peak. Speaking about Cristia Ronaldo’s career, ‘Dstani Eagle’ said: “body will be around forever, so it’s important to leave at right time. How old is he (Cristia Ronaldo)? 34? At 35, he won’t have same conditioning and reaction time. It doesn’t matter if it’s Cristia or Khabib, people will come and take your place”. However, Khabib Nurmagomedov kws that it is hard to leave something one has done ir entire life but according to him, it does t matter wher you want to retire or t, re will be a time when sport will leave you if you do t leave sport.

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UFC: Khabib Nurmagomedov's upcoming fights

Khabib Nurmagomedov will be defending his lightweight title opposite Tony Ferguson at main event of UFC 249. After a lot of speculations and call outs, Khabib has finally got his opponent lined up for April 18, 2020 and a victory in his upcoming fight would make him march towards 29 wins with three successful title defences.

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11:42 IST, December 16th 2019