Khamzat Chimaev is clearly not somebody that Colby Covington holds in excessive regard, as evidenced by his newest feedback on the dominant UFC champion. Throughout a latest interview with Submission Radio, the previous UFC interim welterweight champion talked about he’s focusing on a transfer as much as 185 kilos and is already placing the reigning middleweight titleholder in his crosshairs.
This comes on the heels of Covington shifting up in weight to compete in Actual American Freestyle, which noticed him creator a dominant win over former UFC and Strikeforce middleweight champion Luke Rockhold at RAF 05 from over the weekend. As he turned his focus from the world of wrestling to slicing promos on related figures inside MMA, Covington stated,
“It’s embarrassing. He’s [Khamzat Chimaev’s] making a mockery of the game. It’s best to defend your title a pair occasions earlier than you even contemplate shifting weight lessons. You’ve already moved weight lessons. You price the corporate a ton of cash by pulling out of that combat final minute in opposition to the soy boy Nate Diaz you had been speculated to be on. He’s went as much as 185, he’s gained the title, however he hasn’t defended it but.”
Khamzat Chimaev eyes a fellow UFC champ for White Home card
The mockery that Khamzat Chimaev is supposedly making of the game that ‘Chaos’ referred to above touches upon ‘Borz’ placing one other UFC titleholder in his focus for the following job. After defeating Dricus du Plessis to assert middleweight gold final August at UFC 319, Chimaev is seeking to take out the UFC’s mild heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira. ‘Poatan’ was known as out by Chimaev for the IUFC White Home card, which is being deliberate out for this Summer season.
The unbeaten champ took to his X account to name out Pereira for the mid-June mega card, and Chimaev quipped about how he would end Alex Pereira quick. ‘Borz’ additionally referred to Pereira as a boy when telling Brazilian followers to encourage ‘Poatan’ to take the combat if he isn’t scared, to paraphrase the wording of the middleweight kingpin’s tweet.
