Khamzat Chimaev’s wild attempt to attack Conor McGregor in Ireland revealed

Nine years after saying he inspired him, and a $500K KO bet later, Khamzat Chimaev opens up about chasing to fight Conor McGregor in 2018.

Khamzat Chimaev’s wild attempt to attack Conor McGregor in Ireland revealed

Khamzat Chimaev opens up about being jailed during attempt to confront Conor McGregor (Source: IMAGO)

Khamzat Chimaev isn’t the ‘forget, forgive’ kind of a person and keeps fundamentally violent intentions. On one such don’t-let-go instance back in 2018, a riled up ‘Borz’ was ready to confront Conor McGregor. Former UFC two-division champ McGregor’s rivalry with Khabib Nurmagomedov and his team is wildly infamous. However, Chimaev’s immediate circle was once collateral in it.

Conor McGregor maintains an animosity and general disdain for Team Khabib members. In a media round with Azamat Chef, Khamzat Chimaev explained that ‘Notorious’ also dissed his Chechen peers in the build-up to the UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor event. He allegedly also (unethically) publicized a photo of dropping Chechen BJJ black belt Ayub Magomadov. Chimaev was ready to take matters into his own hands.

I just saw one of our guys — my compatriot… [Conor] dropped him in sparring and posted a picture. My friends told me to spar with him and I flew over there, …No, they didn’t let me in. They arrested me at the airport and sent me back home. They must have mistaken me for someone else. Then they sent me a letter saying that I could come back any time…

Khamzat Chimaev to Azamat Chef YT Channel (🎥: Azamat chef)

It isn’t unlike other cases from the SBG Ireland fighter and his camp; Ex-IBF and WBA champ Paulie Malignaggi was on tab to be McGregor’s sparring partner. The 12-round spar session was right before The Money Fight: Mayweather vs. McGregor, 2017, to get him in shape. Conor McGregor and team would go on a deep-ended ruckus, releasing footage of dropping him. Chimaev’s case was a tad bit different.

He spent his time in his cell doing push-ups and squats in solitude, he said in another interview in 2020. Khamzat Chimaev had promptly shut down the idea that he was there to help the Irishman in fighting. The Team Allstars Training Center fighter said it was more than team Khabib — it was about pride for him. McGregor has been known to throw jabs with cultural insinuations at devout Muslims time and again. As such, his account of it has gone quite viral.

Fight fans root for Khamzat Chimaev’s aspirations to hunt down rival Conor McGregor back in 2018

Khamzat Chimaev’s wild tale of coming to Ireland just to get his hands on Conor McGregor had fans abuzz. The UFC 229 post-fight brawl with Nurmagomedov involved was already a viral happening. This just adds to the flavor even more. The thought of a young, hungry Borz chasing down for a street-style beatdown is something the combat clique does not see every day.

Khamzat Chimaev’s tale to attack UFC peer Conor McGregor goes viral
Khamzat Chimaev’s tale to attack UFC peer Conor McGregor goes viral (Source: X)

Chimaev’s “kill everybody” war-cry does not always translate to better parts of his fights. The Chechenya fighter is on the weaker side of auto-immunity and often fell sick from vigorous fight camps. But when Chimaev does fight, he brings a different kind of energy. To have a notion of him chasing down ‘Notorious’ of all people with that energy is just something else. Here is what fans think of it:

Many fans have voiced that Chimaev would have brutally hunted down McGregor, better than his UFC 308 crank! I.E., his first-round submission (face crank) in under 3:34 on a middleweight mainstay that broke a few digits. Others have said he and Darren Till told a version of wanting to help Conor McGregor before his scrapper, and this story is very different.

Meanwhile, even others said McGregor would have mauled him, but not his latest version. ‘Mac’ hasn’t been back inside a cage since his 2021 TKO leg break loss. His latest antics and a dubious hint at an Irish political run do not help matters any. All in all, the matter is quite a red-hot one.

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