Anyone who’s lost a parent knows what lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov experienced after defeating Justin Gaethje on Saturday at UFC 254. The stoic Russian, one of the toughest pound-for-pound competitors in the sport’s history, a man rarely given to displays of emotion, ended up on his hands and knees weeping on the mat in center octagon after he finished Gaethje by second-round technical submission. When Nurmagomedov stood up to gather himself, his teammates gave him a towel in which he buried his face for several more moments before he composed himself and made the announcement that he was retiring from MMA undefeated . Your parents mold and shape you, impart their values upon you, give you the opportunity to fly. If you’ve lost one or both — as someone who lost both, I know of what I speak — you carry this with you for as long as you live.
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