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 concentrating 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 transferring up in weight to compete in Actual American Freestyle, which noticed him writer 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 reducing promos on related figures inside MMA, Covington stated,
“It’s embarrassing. He’s [Khamzat Chimaev’s] making a mockery of the game. You need to defend your title a pair instances earlier than you even contemplate transferring weight lessons. You’ve already moved weight lessons. You price the corporate a ton of cash by pulling out of that struggle final minute towards the soy boy Nate Diaz you had been alleged to be on. He’s went as much as 185, he’s received 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 subsequent process. After defeating Dricus du Plessis to say middleweight gold final August at UFC 319, Chimaev is trying to take out the UFC’s gentle 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 time.
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 struggle if he isn’t scared, to paraphrase the wording of the middleweight kingpin’s tweet.
