"He's lying about it because he was a young kid at that time... Now he is in his prime, he feels like he is unbeatable. So, he's just acting a little arrogant, he's not being real and truthful. And the truth of the matter is that a 100% we grappled when I was at ATT. I know he remembers but he just doesn't want to tell the fans. But it's okay, I'll give him another reminder on the RAF mats too."
"I have my own opinion on this, but it's not right to talk about the UFC being a PFL fighter. In one year, Usman has grown a lot," Khabib told Team Gorilla Fighting. "I'm fighting with him myself, I'm working personally. And from the outside, he's at least on the same level as them [Ilia and Arman]. A year ago I would have said we still have to wait, but now he's already at that level. Time will show."
"A lot of people have no clue," Artur told Red Corner MMA. "They think we were born in a golden cradle... We could also tell a lot of things about the way we used to live. But why? I think all of us went through this stage of our lives when we were younger. We didn't even have wrestling shoes. Like at all. We lived in the countryside back then, in a sort of a 'ghetto'. So when we would go into city and see wrestlers with Asics shoes, it had a 'wow' effect on us."
