Anatoly Malykhin has reacted to UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev\u2019s claim that the Russian is the \u2018most dangerous man on the planet\u2019 following his history-making win last week.
\nAt ONE 166:Qatar, Malykhin defeated Reinier de Ridder for the ONE Middleweight MMA world title, adding to the light-heavyweight and heavyweight crowns he currently holds – becoming the first fighter to ever hold titles at three different weights concurrently.
\nIt prompted the dominant UFC champion to post a picture of Malykhin on his Instagram story, proclaiming him as the most dangerous man around.\u00a0
\nThe 36-year-old is 14-0 in his MMA career and has never even been taken the distance – it was only in his last two fights that he discovered what it was like to come out of a second round.
\nIn response to Makhachev\u2019s words, Malykhin was humbled, and also expressed his admiration for the man from Dagestan.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s very inspiring to hear that,\u201d said Malykhin. \u201cIslam is the pound-for-pound number-one fighter. I\u2019ve been following him for quite a long time. I used to watch Khabib\u2019s fights, too. To see that, it\u2019s an amazing sign of respect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anatoly Malykhin has reacted to UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev\u2019s claim that the Russian is the \u2018most dangerous man on the planet\u2019 following his history-making win last week.
\nAt ONE 166:Qatar, Malykhin defeated Reinier de Ridder for the ONE Middleweight MMA world title, adding to the light-heavyweight and heavyweight crowns he currently holds \u2013 becoming the first fighter to ever hold titles at three different weights concurrently.
\nIt prompted the dominant UFC champion to post a picture of Malykhin on his Instagram story, proclaiming him as the most dangerous man around.\u00a0
\nThe 36-year-old is 14-0 in his MMA career and has never even been taken the distance \u2013 it was only in his last two fights that he discovered what it was like to come out of a second round.
\nIn response to Makhachev\u2019s words, Malykhin was humbled, and also expressed his admiration for the man from Dagestan.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s very inspiring to hear that,\u201d said Malykhin. \u201cIslam is the pound-for-pound number-one fighter. I\u2019ve been following him for quite a long time. I used to watch Khabib\u2019s fights, too. To see that, it\u2019s an amazing sign of respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375236,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375235\/revisions\/375236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}