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Published 11:07 23 Oct 2018 BST
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Lobov went on to say how McGregor still respected Nurmagomedov and did not engage with the 'chicken' comments.
'The Russian Hammer' admitted he was very harsh in a Russian media interview, back in 2016, when he defended McGregor and pointed out Nurmagomedov had a history of pulling out of fights with injuries and issues.
Although the pair crossed paths on a few occasions after that, it was not until the week of UFC 223 that Nurmagomedov decided to press Lobov on the interview. Lobov says he only got physical - grabbing the back of his neck - when he was surrounded by several members of his entourage.
When footage of the testy encounter was shared online, McGregor was immediately in touch.
Lobov says, amid a flurry of messages and interview requests, only one person had his back and displayed genuine concern about the scrape he found himself in - Conor McGregor.
"There was only one good message, from Conor," he said.
"[He wrote] 'I'm on the way, I’m coming over, and I don’t care what, when, who, why. I don't give a f**k. You're my brother and I’m on the way over'."
McGregor was on a chartered flight within hours and arrived in Brooklyn the next day. The plan, Lobov says, was to confront Nurmagomedov during the UFC 223 media day at the Barclays Center but McGregor got there too late and headed down to the loading bay.
Matters got out of hand, once there, and windows of the bus carrying Nurmagomedov were smashed. Lobov insists no other fighters were in danger and that McGregor only wanted to go face-to-face with Nurmagomedov.
Lobov was pulled from the UFC 223 fight card in the aftermath of the bus attack and has kept his counsel ever since. However, now that McGregor and Nurmagomedov have fought - at UFC 229 - he wanted to get his side of the story out before concentrating again on his upcoming fight.
https://twitter.com/espnpodcasts/status/1054507261962403840
Lobov touched on a lot more during the interview - targeting a fight with Zubaira Tukhugov (the man who hit McGregor from behind at UFC 229), boxing offers and taking on Johnson - and it is really worth a listen.
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