MMA News Round-Up: Makhachev Hints at Retirement; Erin Blanchfield Opens Up on Future UFC Plans; Mike Tyson Predicts Ngannou vs. Tyson Fury & More

From hinting at retirement, and predicting fights to revealing future plans, here is everything you need to know to know from the world of MMA.

In a recent interview uploaded on the UFC Russia channel, Islam Makhachev expressed his future plans and what his mother wants him to do. He said, “When I came home there were a lot of people there. [My mother] said, ‘You’re a champion now. Wrap it up. Khabib listened to his mother. When will you listen to yours?”

Makhachev Hints at Retirement

Erin Blanchfield recently spoke to MMA media personality ‘The Schmo’ and got vocal about her future UFC plans and title fight aspirations. 

Blanchfield on Future
UFC Plans

During interaction with TMZ, 'The Baddest Man on the Planet' gave a prediction for Francis Ngannou vs. Tyson Fury’s super fight, saying, “Anything is possible.”

Tyson Predicts Ngannou
vs. Fury

Shavkat Rakhmonov recently expressed his take on Khamzat Chimaev’s 185lbs ambitions. He said, “I really don’t know. You need to ask him that. It’s about what he wants to do. If he wanna fight at 170. If you want to get a title at 170 or if his weight is too big to cut to 170, then he’s gonna stay in 185. So it is really up to him."

Rakhmonov's Prediction Chimaev

Sean Strickland recently made comments about fellow fighter Diego Sanchez’s bare-knuckle boxing debut and expressed that the organization only signs old fighters. 

Strickland on BKFC

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