While Nurmagomedov’s next bout has yet to be announced, one fighter that wouldn’t mind facing him is former UFC Welterweight Champion Tyron Woodley.
“He’s a beast,” Woodley said during a UFC Fight Night Vancouver Fan Q&A (via Alexander K. Lee of MMA Fighting). “I just think that right now in my life and my career, I need the impossible. I need the stuff that nobody can do, I need the thing that’s gonna motivate me beyond measure and I think that he provides that. Obviously, I could never make 155. I’m already kind of alluding to handling business at welterweight and going up to middleweight. It would have to be something at a catchweight, it would have to be something that he would be interested in. He’s on top of the world right now, I might not even be an option for him. It’s more out of respect of what he can do. I know Dustin, he spars middleweights, light heavyweights, and for him to go out there and put on a performance like that against Dustin, I gotta see what it feels like.”
Nurmagomedov has yet to reveal any interest in moving up a weight class, so a potential bout with Woodley may be highly unlikely. If Woodley were to magically find a way to make the lightweight weight limit and challenge for the title, it would give him the opportunity to be just a handful of UFC fighters to win two separate belts in two different weight classes.
