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10th April 2018
09:26am BST

"The guy I was worried about the most was John Kavanagh... He said a lot of things about religion. He said a lot of things about Khabib. It didn't sit very well with a lot of guys in Dagestan. He made some jokes on the internet and he kept mentioning Khabib's name."https://twitter.com/TeamKhabib/status/722230850633510912 Despite claiming that he is not one to hold a grudge, Abdel-Aziz clearly has a problem with Kavanagh. He confessed that he actually enjoys McGregor's antics, for the most part, but Kavanagh is a different story.
"I don't care about the guy. I don't give a shit about John Kavanagh. I'm not trying to say here 'a nice guy and I love him' because certain people I don't like and let people know if I don't like them. I like Conor McGregor as an entertainer, as a fighter, as a polarising figure. I watch his stuff, it's crazy. But, John Kavanagh, he lives in somebody else's dream. It's not him. I don't respect people like that. I despise people like that."He added that if Kavanagh was with Lobov during the Khabib confrontation, "Artem would be ok. (but) I think probably John would have got whooped."
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