Famend MMA coach Firas Zahabi is satisfied that Khamzat Chimaev is the best middleweight of all time.
‘Borz’ put collectively one of the most dominant performances in title fight history at UFC 319, logging greater than 21 minutes of management time towards ex-titleholder Dricus Du Plessis.
The struggle itself left many followers pissed off with the dearth of motion, however for Zahabi, it was a efficiency befitting of a GOAT.
“Khamzat is the best middleweight ever,” Zahabi mentioned by way of the Tristar Gym YouTube channel. “I might put him towards anybody within the middleweight division, and I’d decide Khamzat any day. Adesanaya, DDP, Anderson Silva in his prime, overlook about it. None of them can maintain a candle to him.. He’s the Khabib of the middleweight division.”
Not Everybody appreciated Khamzat Chimaev’s Grappling show at UFC 319
After all, not everybody was as thrilled as Zahabi was relating to Chimaev’s wrestle-heavy assault in Chicago.
One-time UFC title challenger Paulo Costa, who has been very open about his dislike of Chimaev in current months, completely shredded the Chechen’s efficiency.
“It is a present. That is leisure,” Costa told Ariel Helwani. “This type of struggle, and fighter, has a variety of potential to kill this enterprise.
“This stunned me after, as a result of on the press convention after the struggle, Dana (White) was (saying), ‘OK, he did superb.’ No, he didn’t, man. He did horrible. That is horrible for the watchers. This isn’t good. Individuals will watch one thing else. They won’t watch these guys hugging one another for 25 minutes.”
Whether or not you appreciated the dominance on show or had been bored out of your thoughts, there’s no denying that Chimaev seems to have a stranglehold on the middleweight division, and it might be years earlier than somebody cracks the code, if ever.
