Khamzat Chimaev is clearly not someone who holds Colby Covington in high regard, as evidenced by his latest comments about the dominant UFC champion. During a recent interview with Submission radiothe former UFC interim welterweight champion said he is targeting a move up to 185 pounds and already has the reigning middleweight titleholder in his sights.
This comes after Covington moved up in weight to compete in Real American Freestyle, scoring a dominant victory over former UFC and Strikeforce middleweight champion Luke Rockhold at RAF 05 last weekend. As he shifted his focus from the world of wrestling to making promos about relevant figures within MMA, Covington said:
“It’s embarrassing.” [Khamzat Chimaev’s] make a mockery of the sport. You have to defend your title a few times before you even consider moving weight classes. You’ve already moved weight classes. You cost the company a lot of money by pulling out at the last minute against the soy boy Nate Diaz you were supposed to be fighting. He’s gone up to 185, he’s won the title, but he hasn’t defended it yet.”
Khamzat Chimaev looks to a fellow UFC champion for the White House card
The mockery Khamzat Chimaev would make of the sport that ‘Chaos’ referred to above involves ‘Borz’ putting another UFC title holder in his focus for the next task. After defeating Dricus du Plessis to claim middleweight gold last August at UFC 319, Chimaev is looking to knock out UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira. ‘Poatan’ was called up by Chimaev for the IUFC White House card, scheduled for this summer.
The undefeated champion used his X account to invite Pereira to the mid-June mega card, and Chimaev joked how he would finish Alex Pereira quickly. ‘Borz’ also called Pereira a boy when he told Brazilian fans to encourage ‘Poatan’ to take the fight if he is not afraid, to paraphrase the wording of the middleweight kingpin’s tweet.
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