Famend MMA coach Firas Zahabi is satisfied that Khamzat Chimaev is the best middleweight of all time.
‘Borz’ put collectively probably the most dominant performances in title combat historical past at UFC 319, logging greater than 21 minutes of management time in opposition to ex-titleholder Dricus Du Plessis.
The combat itself left many followers pissed off with the shortage of motion, however for Zahabi, it was a efficiency befitting of a GOAT.
“Khamzat is the best middleweight ever,” Zahabi stated by way of the Tristar Health club YouTube channel. “I might put him in opposition to anybody within the middleweight division, and I’d choose Khamzat any day. Adesanaya, DDP, Anderson Silva in his prime, neglect 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
In fact, not everybody was as thrilled as Zahabi was concerning 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 instructed Ariel Helwani. “This type of combat, and fighter, has a whole lot of potential to kill this enterprise.
“This shocked me after, as a result of on the press convention after the combat, 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 could be years earlier than somebody cracks the code, if ever.
