The wave of backlash isn’t slowing down for Khabib Nurmagomedov. The former lightweight champion threw himself into a whirlwind of trouble after promoting his ‘Papakha’ NFT project. According to a report from KuCoin, Khabib reportedly pulled in 350 million Russian rubles, roughly $4.5 million, after 29,000 NFTs were sold for $150 each. Now, with ‘The Eagle’ cashing in through a Telegram-based blockchain currency and claiming in a since-deleted X post that he’s simply sharing what his father passed down to him, the criticism has only grown louder. And to make things even harder for him, his longtime rival Conor McGregor has now jumped into the mix as well.

Addressing the whole controversy, ‘The Notorious’ posted on X, “There is just no way good guy khabib used his late fathers name, as well as Dagestan’s culture, to scam his fans and fire sell a bunch of digital NFT’s online and then delete all of the content after they were sold, leaving his fans robbed of their money? There is just no way good guy do this.” 

Following that post, McGregor also fired another one, “What a shame and a stain on his father’s name. Just wow! To scam fans using his father and his countries culture is just so low. Father’s plan has now become Father’s scam. 😔 🙏 Very sad. On the opposite side of this, it was Great to see Islam Mack honour his own father by putting the double world titles on his shoulders and saying ‘there is not many fathers of double world champions!’ Truth.

This is a developing story…