He prostrated and cried .. Nur Mamedov retired from the martial...

And after the end of the UFC 254 match in Abu Dhabi, Noor Mamedov (32) shocked journalists by retiring live in front of the cameras.

The Dagestan champion, who has never lost, nicknamed “The Eagle”, collapsed in the middle of the ring in tears after his victory over Ghaithi. When he got up, he took off his gloves and said, “This is my last battle in (UFC).”

Nur Mammadov defeated his opponent, Gaithi, in the second round, to retain his lightweight champion, cementing his position as the most dominant fighter ever with a record of 29 unbeaten wins, and he is the first Muslim to win the UFC world champion title.

Nur Mamedov, who came from Dagestan (one of the federal entities in Russia), insisted that he would not return to the fights again without his father, Abdul Manaf, who died in Moscow after complications from his infection with the Coronavirus.

It seems that Habib was very affected by the departure of his father, and he promised his mother, who spoke to her for 3 days before he decided to accept Ghaithi’s confrontation, that his next match would be his last.

“I was hesitant about going into this fight, but it was my father’s dream,” he said. “I just want one thing from the UFC, which is to be crowned the number one fighter in the world.”

“Now only my mother is left for me, and I want to spend more time with her. I came from a very small town, my father and I had a dream to be heroes, but we did not imagine this.”

One of the most famous shots that Nur Mammadov was famous for in 1997 when he was young, under the age of ten, appeared fighting a bear brought to him by his father, and it is one of the most popular shots in the world that made him one of the most powerful fighters in history.

Nur Mamedov was born in a mountain village called Sildi in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, and he was raised to learn martial arts that he learned first at the hands of his father. He grew up surrounded by all the factors of the tournament, then officially joined the UFC in 2011.

Nur Mamedov was widely known and turned into an icon in Arab and Islamic countries during the past years, especially after his famous fight with the Irish wrestler MacGregor two years ago, where clashes occurred after the match due to the latter’s insulting to Islam, which prompted Habib to respond and the two were then subjected to penalties.

Habib Nur Mamedov topped the Google search list in Egypt and a number of Arab and Islamic countries, as soon as the news of Mamedov’s retirement was announced, at a time when Arab social media campaigns are rife with boycotting French products after President Emmanuel Macron’s insistence on insulting Islam.