How is Coach Khabib Nurmagomedov dealing with cheating? By immediately cheating back.
With retirement with an unbeaten 29-0 record in 2020, the former UFC Lightweight Champion was held around the sport that his teammates coached for many victories. Islam Makhachev, his cousins Umar and Usman Nurmagomedov and Tagir Ulanbekov.
Ulanbekov's ranked #10 in the UFC Flyweight Division with a 16-2 record. The Dagestan-Native has only lost once in the UFC-a very controversial fight against 'the Ultimate Fighter 24' winner Tim Elliott in 2022.
Elliott went over the full distance, Ulanbekov defeated through a unanimous decision that false along the way.
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Khabib Nurmagomedov told Tagir Ulanbekov to take the opponent's glove after Tim Elliott did it first
At UFC 272 with coach Khabib Nurmagomedov in his corner, Ulanbekov says that Elliott took the inside of his glove and held him in place while he ate a slap in the face.
“Tim just put his fingers in my gloves and I couldn't pull it back,” Ulanbekov told Red Corner MMA.
“I tried to get it out and he hit me. It had never happened to me before.”
Elliott's illegal glove handle was caught repeating UFC commentator Joe Rogan who called the move 'So Dirty'.
“I couldn't take him down,” Ulanbekov continued. “I can't tell the referee that he is taking my glove. I screamed against Khabib:” Hey, he grabs my glove! ” And he shouted back to me, “Grab him too!”
'[Khabib] Added that legendary sentence, he said, “Grab his glove too and hit him back!” “
Tagir Ulanbekov reveals Khabib's Botte Advies during Tim Elliott Fightband
“Tim just put his fingers in my gloves and I couldn't pull it back. I tried to get it out and he hit me. I couldn't put it down. I screamed against Khabib:” Hey, he grabs my glove! ” and … pic.twitter.com/u3nhtekfjb
– Red Corner MMA (@redcorner_Mma) April 17, 2025
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Tagir Ulanbekov calls Tim Elliott 'Dirty Fighter' for Eyepoke, which was injured for two weeks
Apparently the glove handle is not the only thing that is disturbed Ulanbekov about the fight Tim Elliott.
The flight weight candidate had a brutal eye of Elliott, one that the referee did not notice and his former enemy called for his 'dirty' tactics.
“That guy is a very dirty hunter,” said Ulanbekov about Elliott.
“Very dirty, real.
“I pushed him to the fence that the referee did not see that and stuck a thumb as deep in my eye as he could.
“He scratched my retina or something. My eye was really bad two weeks later …”
Since then, Tagir Ulanbekov will compete against former Bellator and Rizin champion Kyoji Horiguchi at UFC Baku on June 21 on June 21 on June 21.