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UFC 264: Khabib Nurmagomedov mocks Conor McGregor after leg break – ‘good always defeats evil’

  • Former UFC lightweight champ appears to revel in McGregor’s defeat to Dustin Poirier by doctor stoppage
  • ‘Very happy for Dustin, I hope you will get the belt end of the year,’ Khabib adds 

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Conor McGregor is carried off on a stretcher after losing to Dustin Poirier in their UFC 264 lightweight main event. Photo: AP

Khabib Nurmagomedov was quick to revel in Conor McGregor’s defeat to Dustin Poirier by doctor stoppage in Saturday night’s UFC 264 main event.

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Former two weight champ McGregor (22-6) suffered a broken leg in the final seconds of the first round, with referee Herb Dean waiving it off after the buzzer at the T-Mobile Arena.

“Good always defeats evil,” tweeted former lightweight champ Nurmagomedov (29-0), who submitted McGregor in October 2018 and Poirier a year later.

“Very happy for @DustinPoirier I hope you will get the belt end of the year,” added the Dagestan native, who retired last September, spurning a chance for a potential money-spinning rematch with his former heated rival McGregor.

Nurmagomedov also retweeted his former American Kickboxing Academy teammate Daniel Cormier, after the former UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champ wrote: “Crazy to think that at the end of the weigh in Conor said he would be taken out on a stretcher. And now Conor gets taken out on a stretcher. Man this game we play is so crazy!!!! Hats off to the Diamond of Lafayette!!”

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Former champ and No 7-ranked lightweight Rafael Dos Anjos also appeared to revel in McGregor’s misery.

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