KHABIB NURMAGOMEDOV admits he'll never be satisfied with how his grudge match with Conor McGregor ended.

After nearly two years of a heated and controversial build-up, former lightweight champion Nurmagomedov defended his title against the MMA superstar in the main event of UFC 229 in Las Vegas.

McGregor put on a valiant display in his comeback fight but ended up tapping to a fourth-round neck crank, which left an emotional Nurmagomedov very much unsatisfied.

During an appearance on The Nelk Boys' Full Send Podcast, Nurmagomedov said: “First of all, I was preparing for war.

"I come inside the cage, I fight with this guy, and he tapped. I’m like, ‘Why [did] I come here? Why [did] I train so hard for this?

“You’re going to tap easily like this?’ I just take his chin, you know, and he tapped.

"This one make me upset, too, you know, because I accept more than what I find inside the cage."

A fired-up Nurmagomedov sparked chaos moments after submitting McGregor by climbing the octagon cage and attacking his opponent's cornerman Dillon Danis.

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But even to this day, he can't quite recall how the infamous post-fight melee started.

He said: "I remember someone from his corner said something and it was crazy emotional.

“I’m not going to say I am proud of something like this, at the age of 33 years old I can say I wouldn’t have jumped into the crowd now.

“I am like, ‘Okay, this party is not finished.’ I don’t really remember, but who cares."

McGregor, 33, has repeatedly tried to entice Nurmagomedov into a rematch in the months and years that followed the UFC's biggest pay-per-view event of all time.

But Nurmagomedov insists no serious attempts were made to make the blockbuster rematch.

He said: "I think he was happy because what would have happened if the referee wasn’t there?

“They never asked to fight again, there was no reason to make the rematch after he tapped out in four rounds.”

Nurmagomedov went on to fight two more times before hanging up his gloves in October 2020.

McGregor, meanwhile, has fought three times since the historic grudge match, defeating Donald Cerrone at UFC 246 and suffering back-to-back losses to Dustin Poirier last year at UFC 257 and UFC 264.

The Irishman is currently recovering from the horrific broken leg he suffered in his trilogy fight with Poirier last July and is targeting a summer return to the octagon.

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