{"id":395749,"date":"2022-07-05T17:30:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=395749"},"modified":"2022-07-05T17:30:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T17:30:44","slug":"forget-about-conor-mcgregor-now-charles-oliveira-zeroes-in-on-facing-islam-makhachev-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/forget-about-conor-mcgregor-now-charles-oliveira-zeroes-in-on-facing-islam-makhachev-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Forget About Conor McGregor Now&#8217;- Charles Oliveira Zeroes in on Facing Islam Makhachev in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira spoke to AG Fight and shared his views on his future in the company. Oliveira is considered by many to be the uncrowned champion and he\u2019s hell-bent on picking up his now-vacant title in a bout before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Oliveira has expressed an interest in facing Conor McGregor in an open attempt to secure the biggest money fight and talked about how everyone is content to allow McGregor to skip the line even though he\u2019s not won a fight at lightweight since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/pereira-has-a-lot-of-vulnerabilities-israel-adesanyas-coach-gets-candid-on-alex-pereiras-fast-rise-in-the-ufc\/\">\u2018Pereira Has a Lot of Vulnerabilities\u2019- Israel Adesanya\u2019s Coach Gets Candid on Alex Pereira\u2019s Fast Rise in the UFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, fans expect that Oliveira will face Islam Makhachev within the next few months and that is a fight \u2018Do Bronx\u2019 is also willing to take. However, he\u2019s confident that once he defeats Makhachev, he will successfully lure his mentor Khabib Nurmagomedov out of retirement and beat him as well, making him the greatest lightweight fighter of all time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-395750 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/Charles-Oliveira-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/Charles-Oliveira-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/Charles-Oliveira-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/Charles-Oliveira-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/Charles-Oliveira-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/Charles-Oliveira-1536x1117.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/Charles-Oliveira-2048x1489.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf they really want it, they need to chase the champion. I chased the champion, right? Then I became the champion. I want to fight in December. Do you really want this? So let\u2019s do something cool. Now I\u2019m talking to you. Let\u2019s fight in January in Brazil? Isn\u2019t that what you really want? So sell it more. But look at this, Khabib, you\u2019ve already tried three premonitions about me and missed all three.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I always found only one way \ud83d\udc4a\u2694\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WQcghBP0lu\">pic.twitter.com\/WQcghBP0lu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; khabib nurmagomedov (@TeamKhabib) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamKhabib\/status\/1509556860503965706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLook, I won\u2019t say I\u2019m going to submit or knock him out, but I\u2019ll beat him. Listen to this: I will beat Islam Makhachev. The division\u2019s problem is called Charles Oliveira. That\u2019s the division\u2019s problem. It doesn\u2019t matter what they say. If they really want it, I want it, too.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oliveira clearly stated that he\u2019s willing to forgo a money fight against McGregor in favor of a legacy fight against Khabib Nurmagomedov. However, it remains to be seen if Nurmagomedov will even be enticed to make a comeback.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There\u2019s nothing quite like some Proper liquid gold on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhiskeyWednesday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhiskeyWednesday<\/a> to gear up for the weekend \ud83e\udd43 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FA8Ld2QcMQ\">pic.twitter.com\/FA8Ld2QcMQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Proper No. Twelve (@ProperWhiskey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProperWhiskey\/status\/1542241319925555201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLook, forget about Conor McGregor now. Forget it. In Brazil, Charles Oliveira against Islam Makhachev. Is this the fight you want? So we will have it. Charles Oliveira against Islam Makhachev in Brazil.\u201d<\/em> [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2022\/07\/ufc-charles-oliveira-wants-khabib-nurmagomedov-after-beating-islam-makhachev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmajunkie.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>As of now, Khabib Nurmagomedov has shown no interest to make a return to MMA but fans will be curious to see his response if his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 ends up losing to Oliveira.<\/p>\n<p>More UFC news:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/im-not-interested-in-helping-him-joe-rogan-explains-why-he-turned-down-the-opportunity-to-have-donald-trump-on-his-podcast-multiple-times\/\">\u201cOne Thing About Izzy That Is Absolutely Unique\u2026.\u201d- John McCarthy Reveals a Skill That Separates Israel Adesanya From the Rest of the Division<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ufc-schedule-for-july-2022\/\">UFC Schedule for July 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/one-thing-about-izzy-that-is-absolutely-unique-john-mccarthy-reveals-a-skill-that-separates-israel-adesanya-from-the-rest-of-the-division\/\">\u201cI\u2019m Not Interested in Helping Him\u201d- Joe Rogan Explains Why He Turned Down the Opportunity to Have Donald Trump on His Podcast Multiple Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow our UFC page for more key UFC updates and news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira spoke to AG Fight and shared his views on his future in the company. Oliveira is considered by many to be the uncrowned champion and he\u2019s hell-bent on picking up his now-vacant title in a bout before the end of the year. Oliveira has expressed an interest in facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":395751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}