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Published 10:56 26 Dec 2016 GMT
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"Khabib has pulled out of the fight with me five times. He signed the contract five times." He adds, "If he signed a contract [for a fight] he didn't want, and the UFC forced him to do, he's always looking for an out. Because I can't tell you that you're not hurt. "If you say you've a broken bone, the UFC will say 'Okay, show it to us'. But you can say that you've pulled your back so I can't prove you don't have pain... and they pull out of the fight with an excuse."
Nurmagomedov certainly does not seem to have any issue with signing bout agreements. He signed ones to fight McGregor and Alvarez at UFC 205, when he was being used as leverage by the promotion.
He also claims to have signed on the dotted line to fight Ferguson for next March.
We'll leave the final word [for now] with McGregor:
"For me to commit to something like that, I'm going to need solid proof that people are going to show up and he's a consistent pull-out merchant... We'll see how it goes. "I need to see activity, I need to see consistency, I need to see me."
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