“Hopefully Khabib doesn’t retire,” Ortega concluded.

“Give me some time to go in there and let me do what I have to do and prove myself the way he proved himself. Let me become a champ. Then I feel like I have the right to really call him out and have it be a lot more serious than just saying his name in interviews.”

What do you think of these comments from Brian Ortega?

This article first appeared on BJPENN.COM on 10/18/2019.