“Then he can survive”– Khamzat Chimaev names the only possible way for Kamaru Usman to survive a boxing match against Canelo Alvarez


<em>“Then he can survive”</em>– Khamzat Chimaev names the only possible way for Kamaru Usman to survive a boxing match against Canelo Alvarez

Khamzat Chimaev on Kamaru Usman

Khamzat Chimaev reacts to Usman vs Alvarez! Kamaru Usman wants to fight in a boxing match against the greatest boxer of our era, Canelo Alvarez. Usman is the welterweight champion of the UFC, and he stands at top of the pound for pound rankings. Canelo on the other hand holds multiple championships, and he also stands at top of the boxing’s pound-for-pound list.

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Kamaru Usman has been asking for this match for a long time, and he believes with proper training he can serve the biggest upset of our era. Nobody from the MMA community believes in Usman, and Ryan Clark even claimed he’s not in his right mind to call out Canelo. Many think it’s a publicity stunt, and he’s just doing it to get paid.

Chimaev is very confident in his abilities, and he truly believes he can beat anyone in the UFC. Even for him, a boxing match against Canelo is too much. He talked about Usman wanting to fight Canelo during his appearance on “The Triple C & Schmo Show,” he said, “I think I’m the best in the world, but I can’t say I can beat (Canelo) in boxing because I’m not a stupid guy. I understand how it works. The guy all his life did boxing, he knocked out – he killed so many good guys. How (Usman) can say, ‘I’m going to knock him out’? I understand he wants to make money.”

“It’s not my game”- Khamzat Chimaev isn’t planning on boxing anytime soon

Khamzat Chimaev
Khamzat “Borz” Chimaev

Khamzat Chimaev doesn’t understand Usman’s wish of fighting Canelo. He believes there’s nothing he can do to impose his will over Alvarez. In the same interview, he said, “He has only one way to fight Canelo, if they make the fight one second. Just like start and finish. Then he can survive. He can’t survive one minute. I’m never going to do that because I understand how it works. It’s not my game. If he comes to my game, if Canelo comes to the UFC and fights with me, I can take 10 seconds and let him sleep. The guy never did wrestling, grappling, ground-and-pound, these things. You can’t do it.”

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Canelo isn’t focused on Usman right now, but he won’t turn down an opportunity to earn some easy money with this. How do you see this one going down, given it does happen?

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