Khabib Nurmagomedov insists he will not hand Conor McGregor a rematch - no matter how many millions the UFC offers him.
The lightweight champion choked out McGregor in the fourth round last October to settle their long-running and bitter feud.
McGregor has not fought since while Nurmagomedov defends his title against Dustin Poirier at UFC 242 on Saturday.
If the Russian keeps his belt, questions will inevitably be asked about a second fight with McGregor.
But Nurmagomedov insists the former two-weight champion must earn another shot - by winning 10 fights in a row.
"This guy has to come back and make nine or 10-fight win streak, then we gonna fight," he told ESPN.
"Maybe people who watch this interview, they think, 'Oh, he thinks this, but when the UFC asks this guy to fight Conor for millions of dollars, this guy is gonna take it.' No; fight, come back and show who you are.
"I want to fight real guys - Dustin Poirier, Tony Ferguson, maybe if one of the greatest athletes ever, Georges St-Pierre, wants to fight. I want to fight those guys. I don't want to fight with a guy who never wins."
Nurmagomedov also claimed his rivalry with the Dubliner is not settled - and that he would be willing to go to prison in order to do so.
"Even [the October fight] did not finish it," he added.
"Just to smash people is not enough. I talk about just smash only him? It's not enough. We have to smash all his team. This is what I think before the fight. This is what I say to my team, 'Hey, tonight, we're going to war; this is not about a fight.'
"It will never be finished, ever. Even if we see [each other] somewhere, we're going to fight, 100 percent.
"It doesn't matter if someone go to jail or something like this. I'm not scared about this - they go to hospital and we go to police. That's it."
