Khamzat Chimaev made a frank confession – Boxing/MMA

Third number in the middle division rating UFCChechen fighter Khamzat Chimaev stated that he was thinking about refusing a fight with the former welterweight champion, a Nigerian Kamaru UsmanSports.kz reports with reference to MMA.metaratings.ru.

Let us remind you that the confrontation between the fighters, which took place in October 2023 as part of the UFC 294 tournament, ended with Chimaev’s victory by a majority decision of the judges.

“I’m not the kind of person who likes to say: “I had this, that happened.” My opponent may also have some problems. It was like this, the temperature… We even thought about not going out, but I had a long downtime, I didn’t fight for a year. And I thought like this: “I’ll come in and quickly strangle him.” It didn’t work out, but, thank God, we won,” Chimaev said in an interview…