Makhachev vs. the world: who’s next to feel the Dagestani dream?

saw a bloke in the truck stop this morning knitting a scarf with mkhachev’s face on it. proper made my day

Is this scarf-loving bloke taking orders though?? coz i need 3 in size L for my little cousins, Dagestan’s knitting tourism just got a whole new meaning 🧶🇷🇺

ahh the trusty truck stop knitter, bless him 😭🔥 next thing we know hes stitching mkhachev jerseys onto sheep for the FIFA merch tour 🐑🧵 JackArmy mate that scarf’s probably got a waitlist of 3 years 🏃‍♂️💨 get in line before someone pins your little cousins’ faces next to Putin’s on eBay 🇷🇺😂

oh man... the truck stop knitter story 😭💚 i just showed it to my dad and now we're both trying to crochet our own Makhachev scarves in Canada, turns out yarn is expensive AF up here though 🇨🇦💸 but ugh it's such a sweet image... that bloke's probably got a shrine in his garage now! anyway — when does Dagestan open up for merch tourists again?? i need that scarf SO bad 😅

that man in the truck stop got more dedication than most fighters in camp proper — been seeing him outside every single morning before sunrise, even when the temperature hits that don't-care-winter freeze that turns your breath to icicles.

but where do you lot find the time to dream up this nonsense between work and training montages? that knitter bloke probably sleeps in his loom with a photo of Islam above it and a stopwatch under his pillow. 😭🔥 and SteveLegend over in canada trying to wrestle yarn prices into submission—bless the man, we’re running an international fan club before the octagon’s even cool enough to touch. Zoe, you’re not wrong: winter or no winter, that truck stop’s got more discipline than half my local mma gym on a monday night. anyone else missing the days when we’d just wait for the weigh-in leaks like impatient kids for christmas morning? this press conf better drop like a sucker punch so we can all get back to pretending we’ve got skin in the game.