Caio Borralho noticed lots of errors in Khamzat Chimaev’s dominant choice victory over Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 319.
‘Borz’ managed Du Plessis for greater than 21 minutes of their five-round title tilt, securing his fifteenth profession victory and changing into the UFC’s newly minted middleweight world champion.
Whereas Chimaev’s efficiency was hailed as one of the crucial spectacular in UFC title struggle historical past, Borralho couldn’t assist however take a look at the slew of errors on the a part of Du Plessis.
“Within the first takedown of the struggle, he simply tried to do a guillotine, however no timing guillotine. How are you going to hug a man that wishes to hug you? So there have been lots of errors in addition to the crucifix,” the Preventing Nerds co-founder advised Submission Radio.
“Earlier than going to crucifix, he was on guard and he didn’t know do guard retention. Like Chimaev did a traditional guard cross, like a white belt guard cross, and [Du Plessis] didn’t know do guard retention. And after that, when the crucifix occurred, I believe there have been lots of errors on his half. He stayed too flat on the placing. He didn’t faint. He didn’t transfer in any respect. He didn’t do any sort of footwork to make Khamzat work tougher to shoot a takedown.”
Caio Borralho, amongst others, is already lining up for a shot on the UFC’s latest champ
Du Plessis and his coach have already vowed to return to the drafting board and are available again for a rematch even stronger. Sadly, the South African sensation could also be ready some time with the middleweight queue filling up quick.
On September 6, Borralho will return to the Octagon for a possible title eliminator in opposition to the division’s top-ranked contender, Nassourdine Imavov.
That, on prime of a not too long ago introduced conflict between Reinier de Ridder and Anthony Hernandez at UFC Vancouver, may produce Chimaev’s first official challenger.
