Newly minted UFC middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev has agreed to bury the hatchet with Henry Cejudo.
The long-running feud between the 2 dates again to 2022. Chimaev had left his hat after capturing a podcast episode with ‘Triple C’ and The Schmo. For an additional episode of ‘The Triple C & Schmo Present,’ Cejudo and his co-host handed Chimaev’s hat to the following visitor, Paulo Costa.
On the present, Costa appeared to put the hat inside his pants and brush it towards his genitals. After this incident, Khamzat Chimaev blocked Cejudo on social media.
Then again, Chimaev and Costa have been at odds for fairly a while. They’d a verbal altercation on the UFC PI in 2022 and by no means fail to take digs at one another. Costa and Chimaev had been alleged to struggle at UFC 294, however ‘The Eraser’ withdrew resulting from a critical staph an infection in his elbow and was changed by Kamaru Usman, who misplaced to Chimaev by majority resolution on quick discover.
Earlier this year, Costa accused Chimaev of sliding into his girlfriend’s Instagram DMs. Chimaev, nevertheless, denied the allegations.
Costa is eager on preventing ‘Borz’ and needs to ‘harm him actual dangerous’ contained in the octagon.
Just lately, after Cejudo’s final dance at UFC 323, the latter wished to supply an apology to the Chechen-born Emirati. The previous UFC double champion informed Crimson Nook MMA:
“I’d prefer to apologize to Khamzat. For that motive that you just talked about. The truth that he is aware of the Saitiev brothers. If I may say one thing to Khamzat. I’m sorry, bro. You’re a legend. You paid the owes to the blokes I regarded as much as.”
Take a look at Henry Cejudo’s feedback beneath:
Khamzat Chimaev accepts Henry Cejudo’s apology
Crimson Nook MMA additionally just lately interviewed Khamzat Chimaev in the course of the IBA World Championships in Dubai. Through the interplay, ‘Borz’ claimed that he’s not too conceited to refuse to forgive somebody who has expressed remorse. He mentioned:
“I don’t know what response to provide. It’s simply that People have a tendency to speak nonsense in interviews. Then, if you meet them in individual, they shake your hand like nothing occurred. That’s not our mentality. An individual needs to be real on the street, in interviews, in every single place. In fact, I’m not so proud that I wouldn’t forgive somebody who asks for forgiveness.”
Take a look at Khamzat Chimaev’s feedback beneath:
