Unbeaten middleweight star, Khamzat Chimaev has revealed which opponent has pushed him to his absolute restrict throughout his roughshod run within the UFC — claiming a former champion because the hardest foe he’s confronted thus far.
Chimaev, who had amassed a surprising fourteen straight victories in his unbeaten skilled profession, most lately earned his spot within the middleweight division’s top-three.
Most lately co-headlining UFC 308 again in October, Chechen contender, Chimaev took residence a dominant opening spherical face crank submission win over former undisputed champion, Robert Whittaker.
And previous to that, Khamzat Chimaev featured in a short-notice conflict with former welterweight kingpin, Kamaru Usman, narrowly rising with a steady majority determination win the 12 months prior.
Khamzat Chimaev reveals hardest foe throughout UFC run
Anticipated to make his return in a title battle later this 12 months reverse the incumbent, Dricus du Plessis, Chimaev has handed Usman the title of being the stiffest take a look at he has confronted in his transient Octagon tenure thus far.
The toughest opponent of my profession? I’d say Kamaru Usman,” Chimaev advised AZAMAT CHEF throughout a latest interview. “He defended nicely in opposition to my wrestling, his wrestling is fairly good.
“He defended well against grappling, not even wrestling, he didn’t give me his neck,” Khamzat Chimaev continued. “I was trying to choke him for five minutes, but he defended very well.”
Rising with a majority judging win over the Auchi native, Chimaev could be compelled to the third spherical, nonetheless — narrowly rising along with his unbeaten file intact.
And whereas anticipated to face off with du Plessis in his return, Chimaev has been warned by an in depth good friend and fellow unbeaten Octagon challenger, Caio Borralho of his emergence, with the Brazilian claiming if their pitted collectively, he can topple him.
“I think I prefer to face Dricus (du Plessis) [for the title] because, you know — like Khamzat (Chimaev) is a hell of a competitor and all that,” Caio Borralho defined. “But actually I know I can beat him too, but he’s a kind of a friend of mine, you know, not that close friend, because we train together. I helped him with his fight against Nate Diaz.”
