“How you f**ng learn wrestling in two months”- Khamzat Chimaev finds Gilbert Burns’ training camp for UFC 273 quite amusing
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Khamzat Chimaev and Gilbert Burns
The welterweight contest between Khamzat Chimaev and Gilbert Burns is going to take place at UFC 273. Burns fought for the title against Kamaru Usman back in 2021. Burns started the fight really well but he was knocked out by the champ, and he’s been looking to get back to the top with a dominant win over Khamzat.
Chimaev is the hottest prospect in the UFC right now. He’s on a 4 fight win streak in the UFC right now, and his last performance against Li Jingliang was something to behold. Khamzat has been asking for top-level contenders ever since his arrival, and he’s finally getting a shot against someone in the top 5. Khamzat believes he’s ready to fight for the title, but Burns is putting in the work to stop Khamzat in his tracks.
In an interview with MMA Fighting, Burns revealed that he has hired two Russian wrestlers to help him prepare, “I had to hire two wrestlers, two very tough Russians who are helping me daily,” Burns said. “They asked to keep their names a secret, and I had to. Because they are showing me a lot of stuff, changing a lot of stuff in my game. There’s a lot of technique with the hip, waist, control. They are ahead of the United States. I’ve learned a lot in this camp. And you can’t just learn the defense, you have to attack as well, so you feel it and develop your defensive skills.”
“The guy is done”- Khamzat Chimaev believes he already won the mental warfare against Gilbert Burns
Khamzat finds Burns’ preparation tactics quite amusing, he believes he has already won the mental warfare against him, and there’s nothing Burns can do to prepare against him, “He’s said, ‘Maybe we’re going to wrestle, maybe we’re going to grapple, maybe we’re going to come in with strikes.’ He doesn’t know what I’m going to do,” Chimaev said. “He’s stressed. Now he has big drama in his head… he thinks about. When you listen to him, you understand — the guy is done. He said, ‘I have two secret Russian wrestlers.’
“How you f**ng learn wrestling in two months, two or three months? Never. In his dreams, he can’t take me down. He knows that. The guys that have been in my gym.. like some guys that train there with him, they’ve been in my gym… I don’t know what they told him, but I beat them all and he knows about that. He’s scared,” Chimaev concluded.
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