UFC fighter Khamzat Chimaev During a press conference ahead of the UFC 294 tournament in Abu Dhabi, he explained why he wouldn’t hurt his potential opponent Paolo Costé who was unable to fight with Chimaev due to injury.
Costa’s fight against Chimaev was scheduled for a tournament in Abu Dhabi, but subsequently former welterweight champion Kamaru Usman replaced Costa. The Brazilian fighter withdrew from the fight due to elbow surgery caused by complications from a staph infection.
– If you meet Costa in a hotel or elsewhere, how will it end?
“We had many opportunities to meet, there wasn’t one I wanted, but I didn’t get the chance to find. I think he only developed an infection on his elbow because he was so scared to meet me somewhere around here, but my older brother told me not to touch him. And this is not usual for us – if we are not in a cage, we do not need to touch it. What can he do to me? A whole team came here with me. I’ve had a lot of one-on-one fights, I’ve had a lot of fights where there were multiple people against me and I had to defend myself. I know how it’s done. If we fought one-on-one, everyone would understand how it would end.
—Is it true that you had some sort of correspondence with his wife?
“She sent me a photo of her elbow injury and wrote to me not to take any of what she said to heart. Well, I told him that jokes are jokes, trash talk is trash talk, but there are things where you can’t cross the line and you have to know where to stop,” Chimaev said , quoted by the correspondent.
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