“I can beat Blachowicz too,” boasts Khamzat Chimaev that he can beat the light heavyweight champion if he wanted


“I can beat Blachowicz too,” boasts Khamzat Chimaev that he can beat the light heavyweight champion if he wanted

Khamzat Chimaev thinks UFC light heavyweight champion, Jan Blachowicz is a cakewalk. We all know that Chimaev is a winner in the welterweight division, but the question is if he can do it in another weight class. The undefeated fighter is set to make a comeback after the COVID struggles and raises questions if light heavyweight could be his next venture.

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Khamzat Chimaev in a recent interview with Brett Okamoto at ESPN spoke about his return to the UFC and his future ventures. The fighter not only has his eyes on the welterweight division which he has been successful so far but also the light heavyweight division. Chimaev made his debut in the last year against John Phillips who he dominated.

Khamzat Chimaev
Khamzat Chimaev

Khamzat was scheduled for his first high-profile fight against Leon Edwards but that fight was rescheduled 3 times which later led to the cancelation of it. Chimaev has said that he will hope to return to the octagon in the month of August and wouldn’t mind another weight class too.

Boasting about how he could beat the current light heavyweight champion, he said, “To me it doesn’t matter,” Chimaev said. “Two weight classes waiting for me, [185] or [170], I can go fight [205 pounds]. I did sparring with the guys who are, like top-10 at [205 pounds]. I don’t want to say the names for these guys, but the guys know when they did spar with me what’s happening there,” he said talking to Brett from ESPN.

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“If they want, I’ll go to heavyweight also,” says Khamzat Chimaev

Khamzat Chimaev

Khamzat Chimaev says that he doesn’t mind which weight class he is offered he would take up the fight. He feels like the current middleweight champion is a cakewalk too. “I can beat Blachowicz too. Israel [Adesanya] too, he lose with, like, wrestling against Blachowicz. Blachowicz is not a wrestler. I don’t know people, how they think about it. Of course, I didn’t fight for a long time, I don’t have so many fights, but I know who I am. I just have to show it.

Though the fighter is open to fighting at any division, his team prefer he come back at the welterweight division. His manager has advised him to fight at 170 pounds. “My manager, I told him, my coach, my team, they told me [170 pounds] would be good for you, I’d be back,” Chimaev said. “If they say like this, I say okay, it doesn’t matter. If they want, I’ll go to heavyweight also.”

“Really, I don’t like to show I’m a tough guy, blah blah blah, but for me it doesn’t matter. Fight is fight. If you fight with somebody 200 kilos outside, ‘Oh, let’s fight,’ what are you going to say? He’s fighting with you. You say, ‘No, you’re not my weight class?’ You have to fight,” ended the undefeated welterweight fighter.

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