“His condition is still serious. There is serious lung damage, he cannot talk or move. He also had a stroke and bypass surgery was carried out,” a source told TASS news agency of the Nurmagomedov family patriarch’s health concerns.

“He was taken out of a coma,” Rabadanov told TASS. “He is in a serious condition, he’s not talking, he was in a coma for seven days after a heart operation, he suffered a stroke.”

Abdulmanap had first fell ill in late April when he was diagnosed with pneumonia-like symptoms by local doctors in his Makhachkala hometown in Russia’s Republic of Dagestan.

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