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Muhammad Mokaev Issues Statement Following UFC Departure

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Muhammad Mokaev Issues Statement Following UFC Departure

This past Saturday, Muhammad Mokaev (13-0-1NC) faced Manel Kape (19-7) in a flyweight bout at UFC 304 in Manchester, England. Mokaev won the fight by unanimous decision.

The 24-year-old competed in his final fight on the UFC contract at UFC 304. Dana White stated during the post-fight press conference that he won’t offer Mokaev a new contract. White also said, “PFL is going to get a great undefeated guy. Good luck to him.”

On X, Muhammad Mokaev stated that he has a dream of becoming a UFC Champion and hopes White will re-sign him to the promotion. Mokaev also debunked a rumor of his negotiations with PFL while under contract with UFC.

“My dream is to become UFC Champion

I turn  them all down because UFC gave me the platform to put my name out there and earn money to feed my family!

btw PFL don’t have flyweight division
All these journalists that make this sh-t up are idiots!

I hope Dana resigns me, this is my dream to become champion!”

Before the UFC 304 fight, Muhammad Mokaev had an altercation with Manel Kape at the hotel. Mokaev explained his side of the story as follows:

“This is first time I punched outside the cage, it was more personal

He was the one who head butted 5 days before Perez fight when I went to shake his hand in Vegas! 
I understand, this is wrong what happen at the hotel and I apologise to the UFC,  but there’s some nights I didn’t sleep because someone treated me like that, I never been cheap shot on the streets

I will never let anyone bully me and I never bullied anyone, but whatever happened it happened, I don’t wanna keep going about it but I will take big lesson from it!”