“September isn’t that far away,” Khabib wrote in Russian in a post to his 19.6 million Instagram followers on Sunday.

“Even though it’s hard to believe everything will be over by September, one serious person once said: even in times of peace you need to prepare for war.”  

Khabib does not fight during Ramadan, which this year falls on April 23-May 23, and would typically need several months to get back to top fighting shape afterwards. 

That would line up with September. 

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