Will UFC 319 be the final time Khamzat Chimaev fights?
Again in 2020, Chimaev burst onto the UFC scene, successful three fights in simply two months, instantly elevating discuss that Chimaev was a future champion. Sadly, that’s but to occur. Whereas “Borz” stays undefeated, a protracted battle with COVID and numerous damage and sickness setbacks have stymied his meteoric rise. Subsequent month, although, Chimaev will lastly get his title alternative when he challenges Dricus du Plessis for the UFC middleweight championship in the primary occasion of UFC 319. And middleweight rival Caio Borralho believes that might be the tip.
“I heard someplace, some folks saying that if he wins the belt, he’s gonna retire,” Borralho informed MMA Right now. “And I feel so. There’s some little talks, some whispers about that. If he wins the belt, he retires. I’m unsure of that. I don’t know if I imagine that or not, nevertheless it’s an choice. There’s an excessive amount of strain on him. Well being issues and loads of strain from his nation. I don’t know. Possibly he retires, perhaps not. He has some huge cash already. Some huge cash — he’s good with cash. So there shall be no one thing that’s going to make him need to combat. He’ll already be champion, so why not retire? I’d do the identical. I’d do the identical if I used to be him, along with his cash that he has.”
In fact, for any of this to occur, Chimaev first has to win. However Borralho believes that’s the most probably consequence at UFC 319.
“It’s onerous to wager towards Dricus, as a result of I all the time misplaced, however right here’s the factor about this combat, I feel it may be as quick because the Whittaker combat,” Borralho mentioned. “First spherical, two or three minutes, over. I feel it may be very, very quick.
“However perhaps if the combat goes longer, after the second spherical, the third, I feel Dricus is just too robust, onerous to take care of on the ground. If Chimaev has some bother to take care of him on the ground or does loads of pressure and wastes loads of vitality with that, three extra rounds towards Dricus whenever you’re drained? It’s a f*cking nightmare. So perhaps the combat will get higher to Dricus within the third, fourth, and fifth spherical.
“I don’t suppose Chimaev goes to simply surrender. He’s going to combat. He’s a really proud man. He’s going to combat till the tip, till the dying, however I don’t suppose he’s going to be as dominant as the primary two rounds.”
UFC 319 takes place on Aug. 16 at United Heart in Chicago.
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