“THIS FIGHT,” The Rock, Teddy Atlas, Tai Tuivasa and many more react to Khamzat Chimaev and Gilbert Burns’ historic welterweight battle at UFC 273
Khamzat Chimaev vs Gilbert Burns
UFC Welterweights Khamzat Chimaev and Gilbert Burns showed that they are born with a warrior spirit from day one as they pulled off one of the greatest fights in the UFC Welterweight history at UFC 273. The fight card is headlined by a featherweight title fight between UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski defending his title against Chan Sung Jung.
The fight which was pre handily called by Burns as “people’s main event” just delivered magnificently as advised. The MMA community in the live audient could not stop itself from going berserk at seeing what was happening in the arena, probably another fight in the making to be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame. The expectations on the next fight to deliver as this fight just blew the roof off.
The MMA community pours respect on the potential fight of the year contender between Khamzat Chimaev and Gilbert Burns
Just like the live audience, fans around the world have shown a tremendous amount of excitement over the social media giant Twitter and a lot of respect for both fighters. In the end, only one could be crowned as the winner of the fight and Khamzat Chimaev took the unanimous decision victory over Burns.
Watch the tweets varying from Ariel Helwani covering every significant moment via his Twitter handle to The Rock subtly telling the world to tune into this historic battle via his influence. Even legendary boxing coach Teddy Atlas is finally convinced that Chimaev has something more than talent, and that is all about a fighter’s heart.
What do you make of these Twitter reactions but more importantly how did you react to the insane war Chimaev and Burns went through? Chimaev is now 11-0 undefeated with 10 finishes, this is the first time he has gone to the distance and has been tested to the deep waters earlier than people expected he would be. Who do you think is next for Chimaev? As per UFC President Dana White, Chimaev is now supposed to fight Colby Covington next as he revealed that on the Pat McAfee Show.
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