{"id":40398,"date":"2026-09-10T07:07:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/King-Green-makes-stunning-claim-about-competing-against-Islam-Makhachev-202733"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:07:32","slug":"king-green-makes-stunning-claim-about-competing-against-islam-makhachev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/king-green-makes-stunning-claim-about-competing-against-islam-makhachev\/","title":{"rendered":"King Green makes stunning claim about competing against Islam Makhachev"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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King
\nGreen<\/a> claims many
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> athletes are still using banned
\nsubstances.<\/p>\n

A fan recently asked Green how it felt fighting Islam
\nMakhachev<\/a> compared to his other opponents. Green claimed that
\ncompeting against Makhachev felt “different.” He says he knows the
\ndifference, as he claims to have competed against many fighters who
\nhave a distinct strength advantage.<\/p>\n

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King Green says grappling with Islam Makhachev in 2022 \u2018felt
\nlike drugs\u2019<\/h2>\n

Green further claimed that UFC fighters at the top level, including
\nsome champions, are still using banned substances and have the
\nmoney and knowledge to hide it.<\/p>\n

\u201cMakhachev; I said I felt something different\u2026 To be honest, bro;
\nwhat I mean by that is, I\u2019ve messed with thousands of people. And
\nit\u2019s the first time — or a couple of times — where I feel
\nsomething, like when I go with guys who do drugs: \u2018That feels like
\ndrugs.\u2019 I could feel the difference,\u201d Green said on Arnold Barboza\u2019s Kick stream<\/a>. \u201cI went with a
\nfew different other people, I\u2019m not going to blow their names out
\nthere, because they are somebodies. If I say their names, they\u2019ll
\nbe like, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re exposing people.\u2019 I should expose you b**ches
\nfor cheating. You know what I mean? There\u2019s motherf***ers in the
\nUFC that still be cheating, OK? They still be cheating. These
\nmotherf***ers cheat; and they\u2019re a lot of your titleholders, there
\nare a lot of those guys that you didn\u2019t know about it. But they got
\nthe money to hide and they know what they are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Makhachev fought Green in 2022, the final non-title bout before the
\nRussian\u2019s championship run. Green took the fight on less than two
\nweeks\u2019 notice, replacing Beneil
\nDariush<\/a>. Makhachev dominated Green from the opening bell, took
\nhim down and landed heavy ground-and-pound to secure the finish in
\nthe first round.<\/p>\n

Currently on a four-fight winning streak with three finishes, Green
\n(36-17-1) is scheduled to fight Esteban
\nRibovics<\/a> (16-3) at UFC
\n332<\/a> on Oct. 3 at Delta Center in Salt Lake City. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King Green claims many Ultimate Fighting Championship athletes are still using banned substances. A fan recently asked Green how it felt fighting Islam Makhachev compared to his other opponents. Green claimed that competing against Makhachev felt “different.” He says he knows the difference, as he claims to have competed against many fighters who have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40398","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\/40398","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=40398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}