MMA News Round-Up: Team Khabib Responds to Alexander Volkanovski & Dan Hooker’s Allegations Against Islam Makhachev, Conor McGregor Meets With Eddie Hearn

The MMA world has been through quite a few noted advancements in the past hours. The UFC 284 seems to have propelled an entirely new set of events in the combat sports environment. So, here we are with the selection of the most noted MMA events of the past day in today’s MMA news roundup. We will start off with some harsh words coming from the UFC 284 main eventer, Alexander Volkanovski, for his opponent, Islam Makhachev. Recently, ‘Volk’ presented his opinion about the lightweight champ’s alleged usage of unwanted medications. However, the noted UFC Welterweight, Belal Muhammad came out in support of his teammate, Makhachev. Lastly, the noted Irish UFC star, Conor McGregor went on to have a meeting with the noted British sports promoter, Eddie Hearn.

Alexander Volkanovski criticized Islam Makhachev for using medications prior to their bout

The UFC 284 didn’t quite go Alexander Volkanovski‘s way. Despite putting up a stupendous fight against the lightweight king, Islam Makhachev, the Australian fell short of achieving his target. But, recently ‘Volk’ revealed that Islam Makhachev‘s victory wasn’t a fairly achieved one. ‘The Great’ joined the noted MMA coverage personality, Ariel Helwani’s podcast, where he had a shocking revelation to make about his UFC 284 adversary.

A lot of fans knew that Makhachev had to face some complications while cutting his weight. Volkanovski also talked about Makhachev’s weight and revealed from his knowledge, “I’ve heard it gets up to like yeah 180, like 83 kilograms closely. So it could be yeah like, you know it’s. You fill up pretty quick, you know, with IVs and stuff like that, yeah.”

Although he didn’t place any direct accusations, the bashing intent could be realized from his words. Hence, when Helwani made questions related to weight, ‘Volk’ didn’t let the opportunity go and put light on how Makhachev might have gained an unfair advantage.

UFC fighter from team Khabib snapped back at accusations against Islam Makhachev

It’s pertinent to note that the famed UFC Lightweight, Dan Hooker, also fired at Makhachev with a series of tweets. Hooker went as far as labeling the UFC lightweight Champ as a “Cheating Dog”. It was he who publicized revealed that Makhachev had used IVs to regain his body weight within a short time.

But, the Dagestani found support from one of his team Khabib mates and UFC Welterweight contender, Belal Muhammad.

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‘Remember The Name’ put a tweet of his own expressing his support for Makhachev and calling Hooker‘s accusations as “lies”.

However, there has been no concrete news about who is the actual “liar” here since Makhachev hasn’t given out his response on this issue yet.

Conor McGregor had a meeting with Eddie Hearn about an event

The noted UFC star, Conor McGregor, had vocalized himself previously to help the noted Irish boxer Katie Taylor. McGregor had intended to pay the “extra security charges” required to organize Taylor’s bout at the noted Croke Park.

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Recently, McGregor had a meeting with the noted English promoter. Eddie Hearn to finalize things about Taylor’s next bout.

Reportedly, Taylor will be stepping back into the ring on 20 May 2023 for her coveted rematch against Amanda Serrano. Hence, McGregor and Hearn met up to discuss making the fight happen at Croke Park with a seating capacity of 80,000.

Some more MMA news

• Following his defeat to Islam Makhachev, the UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski iterated that he could have squashed the no.1 pound-for-pound UFC fighter if he was in his division.
• UFC Welterweight, Matt Brown opinionated that the UFC star Conor McGregor might look to retire if Michael Chandler knocks him out in their possible future matchup