Khamzat Chimaev is waiting for a showdown towards Sean Strickland for his first protection at UFC champion, however in the meantime, he’s very happy to take out Colby Covington in a wrestling match.
That’s the message Chimaev despatched on Saturday night time after watching RAF 6 in Arizona the place Covington appeared on stage and known as out a number of potential opponents together with Arman Tsarukyan, Kamaru Usman and Georges St-Pierre. But it was Chimaev who answered by providing his companies to face Covington in the subsequent RAF occasion scheduled for March 28 in Tampa, Fla.
“Next RAF I will make American boy humble again,” Chimaev wrote on Twitter. “Colbiclown let’s go.”
Chimaev is acknowledged as top-of-the-line wrestlers in the UFC and he’s no stranger to outdoors the field matches together with his win over fellow UFC fighter Jack Hermansson in a freestyle match just a few years in the past.
For his half, Covington was an All-American wrestler in school and he dispatched Luke Rockhold in a shutout efficiency in his RAF debut again in Janaury.
But maybe the larger information coming out of Chimaev’s problem was responding to a fan asking if he was injured.
Chimaev answered again with an attention-grabbing response, which in all probability gained’t make UFC middleweight contender Nassourdine Imavov very completely happy in any respect.
“No, [I’m] waiting for Strickland,” Chimaev wrote in response.
While that’s removed from an precise affirmation that Strickland is getting the subsequent title shot, it undoubtedly looks like that’s the battle Chimaev needs, and it’s robust to imagine the UFC wouldn’t make it occur.
Strickland scored a powerful knockout over Anthony “Fluffy” Hernandez in his most up-to-date outing and instantly known as out Chimaev for a battle. That led to some back-and-forth trash speak between the middleweights and given Strickland’s standing as one of the talked about fighters on all the UFC roster, he may simply leap the road to face Chimaev subsequent.
That possible places Imavov again in line once more regardless of a five-fight win streak in the division however proper now it appears all indicators are pointing in direction of Chimaev vs. Strickland occurring subsequent.
