Undefeated middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev hasn’t confronted a number of adversity in his seven-year rise to the highest of the UFC’s 185-pound division. The Chechen has completed 12 of his 15 profession opponents.
“Borz” captured the middleweight championship in a one-sided unanimous resolution over Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 319 in August. In his earlier battle that earned him the title shot, Chimaev decimated former champion Robert Whittaker leaving him needing dental surgical procedure to appropriate the injury inflicted.
Chimaev’s accomplishments and dominance have gained the eye of former two-division champion Georges St-Pierre.
“Khamzat Chimaev is one other man that’s in the very best pound-for-pound rankings I ought to point out,” St-Pierre advised Helen Yee Sports activities. “He is there proper now. He is very full, very well-rounded.”
“He appears actually unstoppable proper now,” St-Pierre added.
In his 9 octagon appearances, Chimaev has earned six ‘Efficiency of the Night time’ bonuses and one ‘Combat of the Night time’ honors. Whereas Chimaev appears unstoppable, St-Pierre is aware of nobody is bulletproof.
“I feel no one is invincible,” St-Pierre stated. “I feel proper now Khamzat is the very best at 185, however that does not imply in the event you’re the very best you all the time win. It is not the very best fighter that wins the battle. It is the fighter that fights the very best the night time of the battle.”
