Oleg Taktarov has reignited his war of words with the Nurmagomedov family when discussing who is Russia’s first champion.
The former UFC fighter, who won the sixth tournament in 1995 when the format of the company was based on crowning a genuine ‘Ultimate Fighting Champion’, appeared to be irked during a recent Instagram Q&A about current lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Oleg Taktarov has taken aim at the Nurmagomedov family once again
He said: “I can tell you a story. First champion Royce Gracie. Then he won again. The third championship was won by Steve Jennum, because everyone was injured.
“The fourth championship Royce Gracie who strangled Dan Severn. Then Dan Severn won the fifth championship. There were three champions. The sixth championship I won. Where do you see someone else?”
Back then, competitors would fight multiple times in one night and the rule set employed by the world’s premier MMA organisation today was far more reckless during the company’s embryonic stages.
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“This is the year 1995,” Taktarov continued. “This is a story – how can you rewrite it? How can you remake it? Let’s say that it was not Royce Gracie who won the first two and fourth championships, but your fighter whom you want to enter.
“If one Wahhabi from the Tsumadinsky district said this, why should all fools repeat this? He himself doesn’t repeat it already, and you repeat everything like monkeys after him.”
While he does not directly name Khabib’s father, Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, the insinuation is clear when he references ‘Wahhabi’ as Abdulmanap previously suggested Taktarov was not technically a UFC champion.
Abdulmanap and his son Khabib are also natives of the Tsumadinsky district in Dagestan, which is the area referenced by Taktarov during his social media rant.
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Khabib Nurmagomedov hs been UFC lightweight champion for more than two years
Though Taktarov is technically not a UFC champion, he did win the UFC 6 tournament prior to titles being instated. Over the years, he has been vocal about his place in UFC history.
”To become UFC 6 Champion I had to (take part in) three fights in one evening,” Taktarov told sports.ru. “Just imagine that you have to win in 1st fight, then second, and save power to stand in the last one.
“And the weight difference could be incredible between fighters. I might come to the cage at 90kg and the opponent at 120kg.
“Recently, I read some ‘expert’ who said that ‘Oleg Taktarov wasn’t a real UFC Champion.
”What does the UFC mean? The Ultimate Fighting Championship; the winner of Championship is the champion. Later they started to hold ‘super-fights’ and there would be super-fight champions. The real championships ended in 90s. One fight is just one fight now.”
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When Khabib became UFC champion more than two years ago, the spew of derogatory comments from Taktarov became more and more frequent such as calling Nurmagomedov a ‘typical mountain man’ with ‘cautious genes’ in reference to his ‘boring’ fight with Conor McGregor.
“When a strong army comes – they hide in the mountains, everyone disappears somewhere,” Taktarov said of Khabib, referencing the centuries of warfare between the Caucasus and the Russian Empire.
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