Fighter of Chechen origin representing the United Arab Emirates Khamzat Chimaev would face huge problems in a fight with the Brazilian Paulo Costa, it is necessary to think about functional training. AMC Fight Nights champion Dmitry Bikrev spoke to about it.
On Saturday, Chimaev defeated Nigeria’s Kamaru Usman by decision at UFC 294 in Abu Dhabi. Former UFC welterweight champion Usman entered the fight on short notice. It was previously announced that the winner of this encounter would fight American UFC lightweight champion Sean Strickland.
— Chimaev had a nice first round. I thought that Usman would ultimately not be able to oppose Chimaev. But this isn’t the first time we’ve seen functionality issues at Khamzat; we need to think about it and draw conclusions. You can’t fight like that. If Usman had come out in full preparation or for a 5 round fight, then Usman would have been in big trouble. Khamzat got up after the first round. I thought he just took a break, but no… If Costa hadn’t gone down, there would have been big questions in their fight, there could have been big problems. We must draw big conclusions after this fight. And so Chimaev will continue to accelerate in terms of the title fight,” Bikrev told .
The UFC 294 tournament was broadcast live on the channel.
Source : MatchTV
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