{"id":38591,"date":"2026-06-01T15:25:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Islam-Makhachev-FaceTimes-with-fan-who-is-battling-cancer-201395"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:25:51","slug":"islam-makhachev-facetimes-with-fan-who-is-battling-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/islam-makhachev-facetimes-with-fan-who-is-battling-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev FaceTimes with fan who is battling cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/islam-makhachev-facetimes-with-fan-who-is-battling-cancer.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Islam-Makhachev-76836\">Islam<br \/>\nMakhachev<\/a> recently shared a heartwarming moment with one of his<br \/>\ndiehard fans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Makhachev FaceTimed his fan, who is battling cancer. Makhachev<br \/>\nshared words of support and invited the fan to his next fight,<br \/>\nexpected in August. Makhachev promised to send him tickets for the<br \/>\nfight and also to give him one of his T-shirts after the fight.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u201cHey, hello uncle, how are you? When you come to visit us? I want<br \/>\nto invite you to my next fight in August,\u201d Makhachev said. \u201cI will<br \/>\nsend you tickets. Uncle, be strong, we will see you soon. I will<br \/>\ngive you T-shirt after the fight.\u201d<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DY_i3oIq8xz\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.28\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<h2>UFC Diehard<\/h2>\n<p>While the name of the fan is not known, he became famous on social<br \/>\nmedia when his daughter shared a video of his <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUFC<\/a>-themed birthday party. The UFC took notice and started<br \/>\nsending him merchandise, filling up his entire wardrobe. As the man<br \/>\nis a hardcore fan of Makhachev, people started sharing his posts so<br \/>\nthat they could reach the UFC welterweight champion. The posts<br \/>\nfinally grabbed Makhachev\u2019s attention, and he lifted the fan\u2019s<br \/>\nspirits by commenting on a post just before a chemotherapy<br \/>\nsession.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Makhachev (28-1) recently said in another interview that he is<br \/>\nlooking to defend his title in August. While Makhachev says there<br \/>\nare multiple contenders, he believes <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ian-Garry-268923\">Ian Garry<\/a> is<br \/>\nleading in the race for the next title shot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DW5N05givb5\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.28\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islam Makhachev recently shared a heartwarming moment with one of his diehard fans.&nbsp; Makhachev FaceTimed his fan, who is battling cancer. Makhachev shared words of support and invited the fan to his next fight, expected in August. Makhachev promised to send him tickets for the fight and also to give him one of his T-shirts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38591","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\/38591","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=38591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}