{"id":37359,"date":"2026-03-23T15:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Khabib-Nurmagomedov-congratulates-Movsar-Evloev-on-UFC-London-victory-200560"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:40:06","slug":"khabib-nurmagomedov-congratulates-movsar-evloev-on-ufc-london-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/khabib-nurmagomedov-congratulates-movsar-evloev-on-ufc-london-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Khabib Nurmagomedov congratulates Movsar Evloev on UFC London victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/khabib-nurmagomedov-congratulates-movsar-evloev-on-ufc-london-victory.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Khabib-Nurmagomedov-56035\">Khabib<br \/>\nNurmagomedov<\/a> has unwavering support for <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Movsar-Evloev-183539\">Movsar<br \/>\nEvloev<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Evloev defeated <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Lerone-Murphy-209721\">Lerone<br \/>\nMurphy<\/a> via a majority decision in the main event at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-270-March-21-110783\"><br \/>\nUFC London<\/a> on Saturday. Nurmagomedov congratulated the fellow<br \/>\nRussian on his win via social media.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u201cCongratulations brother,\u201d Nurmagomedov wrote on Instagram<br \/>\nStories.<\/p>\n<p>While Evloev (20-0) doesn\u2019t train Nurmagomedov\u2019s team, he has<br \/>\nalways shared a close bond with the entire Dagestani brigade. \u201cThe<br \/>\nEagle\u201d has previously raised his voice in support of Evloev,<br \/>\naccusing the UFC of denying him a title shot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Waiting on a Title Shot<\/h2>\n<p>Evloev\u2019s clash against the previously undefeated Murphy was widely<br \/>\nconsidered the featherweight title eliminator. Evloev is now on a<br \/>\n10-fight winning streak in the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUFC<\/a>, the second highest among active UFC fighters, only behind<br \/>\nNurmagomedov\u2019s successor, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Islam-Makhachev-76836\">Islam<br \/>\nMakhachev<\/a>. Following his win, Evloev called for a title shot<br \/>\nagainst <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Alexander-Volkanovski-101527\">Alexander<br \/>\nVolkanovski<\/a>, who had no qualms accepting immediately.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, that doesn\u2019t guarantee Evloev the next title shot. When<br \/>\nasked if Evloev would certainly challenge Volkanovski next, Dana<br \/>\nWhite said he isn\u2019t thinking about it. Meanwhile, flashy contender<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jean-Silva-239947\">Jean<br \/>\nSilva<\/a> attended UFC London and even walked up to Hunter Campbell<br \/>\nwith a contract. When asked if Silva would fight for the title<br \/>\nnext, White didn\u2019t shut down the idea.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DWKoEBIE9du\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.27272727272727\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khabib Nurmagomedov has unwavering support for Movsar Evloev.&nbsp; Evloev defeated Lerone Murphy via a majority decision in the main event at UFC London on Saturday. Nurmagomedov congratulated the fellow Russian on his win via social media. Advertisement \u201cCongratulations brother,\u201d Nurmagomedov wrote on Instagram Stories. While Evloev (20-0) doesn\u2019t train Nurmagomedov\u2019s team, he has always shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}