Chael Sonnen claims Khamzat Chimaev was likely to fight for welterweight title next had he not missed weight at UFC 279. ‘Borz’ recently called out Colby Covington for a fight on Twitter. In a video uploaded to his YouTube channel, Sonnen weighed in on the callout. According to ‘The American Gangster’, Chimaev had to call…
UFC president Dana White doesn’t think Kevin Holland genuinely meant he wanted to retire. After getting quickly submitted by Khamzat Chimaev in a 180-pound catchweight bout at UFC 279 earlier this month, Holland (23-8 MMA, 10-5 UFC) posted on social media that he was done with the sport, saying “I’m out.” But White thinks Holland spoke out of frustration. The 29-year-old, who was MMA Junkie’s…
‘Big’ John McCarthy has addressed how Khamzat Chimaev would fare in his move from the UFC welterweight to the middleweight division. The retired MMA referee particularly weighed in on one-time UFC middleweight title challenger Paulo Costa and former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker as potential opponents for Chimaev. On the Weighing In podcast, McCarthy and…
Khamzat Chimaev‘s UFC 279 weight-cutting fiasco has pushed the narrative that he needs to move up to the middleweight division where a potential matchup against champion Israel Adesanya awaits. Chimaev’s main event welterweight fight against Nate Diaz was canceled after he turned up at the scale 7.5lbs overweight. He was rescheduled for a catchweight bout…
UFC head Dana White is confident that Khamzat Chimaev’s fight against Nate Diaz at UFC 279 would not have been competitive. Seeing what Khamzat Chimaev did to Kevin Holland at UFC 279, Dana White realizes that the Nate Diaz fight may have only gone worse. Chimaev (12-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) was initially scheduled to face…
Daniel Cormier believes Khamzat Chimaev decided to stop cutting weight because he realized the repercussions were “not going to be as severe” for him as others. Daniel Cormier recently weighed in on Henry Cejudo’s comments that Khamzat Chimaev missed weight for his originally scheduled bout against Nate Diaz due to over-training. Cormier contradicted Cejudo by…
It is no secret that there is bad blood between Paulo Costa and Khamzat Chimaev following their altercation at the UFC Performance Institute during UFC 279 fight week. Costa shared that he is targeting a fight with Chimaev in Brazil. During a recent appearance on The MMA Hour, Paulo Costa was asked by host Ariel Helwani…
Khamzat Chimaev‘s recent fight at UFC 279 against Kevin Holland was never meant to be. His original main event fight against Nate Diaz never materialized as Chimaev could not make weight by a significant margin of seven-and-a-half pounds. His failure on the scales was the cause of much debate and an entire card reshuffle that…
Khamzat Chimaev continues to lose fans’ support over his back and forth with Paulo Costa. ‘Borz’ recently tried to mock Costa about his title loss to Israel Adesanya at UFC 253. The Swede uploaded pictures of Adesanya doing the humiliating dry-humping gesture to Costa after knocking him out in round 2. Chimaev, who is now…
John McCarthy doesn’t believe Khamzat Chimaev has lost fans despite the controversy surrounding his part in UFC 279’s press conference brawl and missing weight for his bout with Nate Diaz. ‘Borz’ was originally set to face Diaz at UFC 279 last weekend but was forced out of the main event after missing weight. Chimaev instead…
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