That time Team USA was in Dageston and @TeamKhabib hooked them up with a shopping trip and Bobby Telford got a unique gift. pic.twitter.com/AKYISIsY1E — FloWrestling (@FloWrestling) March 28, 2018 A pair of gentlemen sporting AK-47s and waiting for you is usually a bad sign. But for freestyle wrestler James Green, they were the passport to first-class treatment, courtesy of UFC lightweight title challenger Khabib Nurmagomedov , who on April 7 faces interim champ Tony Ferugson at UFC 223 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Green, a two-time world champion and NCAA Division-I wrestler for the University of Nebraska, showed up in Dagestan expecting to wrestle and go home.
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