Javier Mendez thinks Khabib Nurmagomedov will not only be remembered as a great fighter, but as a great coach. Nurmagomedov has assumed a coaching role since hanging up his gloves in October 2020 and will be in Islam Makhachev, Zubaira Tukhugov and Belal Muhammad’s corners at UFC 280 in Abu Dhabi. But American Kickboxing Academy head honcho Mendez, who helped coach Nurmagomedov throughout his career, says “The Eagle” already has been training fighters long before he retired. “He’s been coaching forever,” Mendez said on the UFC Unfiltered podcast. “Even when he was fighting, he was coaching
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Javier Mendez: Khabib Nurmagomedov ‘on track to being the greatest coach of all time’ – MMA Junkie