Khabib Nurmagomedov’s manager mocks Conor McGregor after Donald Trump meeting
Photo by Ed Mulholland/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images The biggest stars involved in UFC Freedom 250 visited the White House on Wednesday to meet United States president Donald Trump ahead of the historic event. Alex Pereira, Ciryl Gane, Justin Gaethje and Ilia Topuria all attended the gathering while taking pictures and recording promotional material around the famous building in Washington. Several coaches and managers also accompanied the fighters, including Ali Abdelaziz, who immediately used the occasion to reignite his long-running rivalry with Conor McGregor.
Ali Abdelaziz mocked Conor McGregor after White House visit Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Following the meeting with Trump, who maintains a close friendship with McGregor, Abdelaziz – Khabib Nurmagomedov’s agent – directly targeted the Irishman through a post shared on social media platform X. “Everyone asked about you today at the White House, we missed you today,” the MMA manager wrote while tagging McGregor shortly after the event concluded. The message was widely interpreted as an attempt to provoke ‘The Notorious’, as he publicly expressed his desire to appear on the White House card in recent months.
Despite those ambitions, the former two-weight UFC champion failed to secure involvement in the event and is now expected to finally return to MMA competition later this year. Abdelaziz and McGregor maintained a bitter feud for years, largely because of the manager’s close relationship with the Irishman’s biggest rival, Khabib. Ali Abdelaziz also praised Donald Trump during White House meeting Abdelaziz also generated strong reactions online because of the speech he delivered while hailing Trump and the upcoming UFC Freedom 250 event.
He said: “Like Justin said, it was all President Trump, probably the UFC would be 20 years behind [without him]. He gave us the jumpstart from the beginning and I think this is going to be the greatest sports event ever created on planet Earth. “It’s going to be the most watched sports event, and what an honor to fight on the ground, red, white and blue.
You know, Justin is the only American, but it’s an honor coming from France, Spain, Brazil, that is the American dream. All of us live the American dream. “It’s an honor to be in the Oval Office and it’s an honor to have a president that actually welcome the people.