{"id":44827,"date":"2025-04-23T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/44827\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:08:08","slug":"khabib-nurmagomedov-hilariously-confronted-mike-tyson-for-a-ko-he-scored-in-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/44827\/","title":{"rendered":"Khabib Nurmagomedov hilariously confronted Mike Tyson for a KO he scored in 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Despite being from two different sports, Mike Tyson and Khabib Nurmagomedov are both widely regarded as two of the best fighters ever.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although he retired whilst at the top of his game following a dominant submission win over Justin Gaethje<\/a>, Khabib Nurmagomedov<\/a> is still regarded as one of the greatest fighters ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also in the conversation as one of the greatest fighters ever is former undisputed heavyweight boxing champion, Mike Tyson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, though, \u2018Iron Mike\u2019 somewhat tarnished his legacy last year when he fought Jake Paul in a highly controversial fight<\/a>, going on to lose by decision.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu via Getty ImagesNurmagomedov hilariously confronted Tyson for KO he scored<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t for his fight against Jake Paul<\/a> that \u2018The Eagle\u2019 hilariously confronted Tyson for; it was a fight he had in 2003.<\/p>\n

After suffering a knockout loss to Lennox Lewis<\/a> in what was a huge rivalry at the time, Tyson was then booked to take on Clifford Etienne just over eight months later.<\/p>\n

With the fight taking place in the United States, Memphis, Tennessee, to be precise, it was live during the early hours of the morning in Russia.<\/p>\n

This was years before Nurmagomedov started his career as a professional MMA fighter, however, being a huge fan of combat sports, he wanted to watch the Tyson vs Etienne fight live and asked his father, Abdulmanap, to wake him up to watch it.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou made me a little bit upset,\u201d Khabib began to explain to Tyson during an episode of his podcast, Hotboxin\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember, 23rd February, 2003, you were supposed to fight against Clifford Etienne, and it was like five in the morning Moscow time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told my father, \u2018Please, can you wake me up, I really wanna watch this fight.\u2019 You knocked him out in the first round. I was waiting for this all night,\u201d Khabib laughed with Tyson.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Mike Tyson supports Dana White\u2019s move to boxing<\/p>\n

Tyson has forever been one of the biggest names in the sport of boxing but unfortunately, his time as a professional has come before UFC boss Dana White<\/a> has made his move into the sport.<\/p>\n

White is widely regarded as the best promoter in combat sports, and his move into boxing is very highly anticipated.<\/p>\n

And with that, he has been supported by Tyson<\/a>, who has stated that he thinks the UFC boss will bring something good to the sport, after spending years growing the UFC\u2019s brand.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite being from two different sports, Mike Tyson and Khabib Nurmagomedov are both widely regarded as two of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,24743,5121,5705,79,5706,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-44827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-khabib-nurmagomedov","10":"tag-mike-tyson","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114389327340571996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}