Boxer Gervonta Davis was involved in a minor plane crash today, and he documented it in a video below.
While Luke Rockhold and Islam Makhachev compete in two different weight classes with Rockhold currently in the UFC’s Light Heavyweight division and Makhachev current in the company’s lightweight division – there is no doubt that the two are currently some of the UFC’s best. Luke Rockhold’s ‘drunken meltdown’ at bar was recently revealed
However, during a recent sparring session between the two, Rockhold was apparently one-upped by Islam to the point that Rockhold compared Islam Makhachev to basketball Hall of Famer and all time great, Michael Jordan. Rockhold would state that Makhachev is like Jordan in terms of his throws. Makhachev would make these remarks during a recent interview with RT Sport. Credit to SportsKeeda for the below transcription.
“When he was preparing for the Machida fight, Machida was a southpaw. I appeared to be the only southpaw in the gym at that moment. Luke is big compared to myself but Javier asked me: ‘Islam, please have a couple of rounds with him, we need a southpaw’. I always agreed.
“So we sparred a lot of times, and I don’t remember a single case where I failed to do a judo double leg takedown on him. It was more than one or two, five or ten times, much more.“
So he comes in for another sparring, gives me small gloves and says ‘today you won’t throw me’. So the sparring starts and I throw him again, and he is in the air, truly upset and already shouting loud.“ Then he said: ‘You are like Jordan in basketball in terms of those throws’. But those were hard sparring sessions for me.”
