Khamzat takes short break from UFC-cancelling ‘illness’ to waste Russian YouTuber | Video

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Earlier this 12 months, former champion Sean Strickland made headlines for bloodying Sneako in a UFC Efficiency Institute sparring session. Within the video above, rising contender Khamzat Chimaev is following his lead. Chimaev takes on Russian YouTuber Litvan, whose purpose was to outlive a minute within the cage with “Borz.” Predictably, it didn’t go too effectively, and the influencer was left curled up in agony on the canvas briefly trend.

That’s all effectively and good, however … wasn’t Khamzat deathly sick only a few weeks in the past? Followers had been fast to query the timeline on social media, questioning why Khamzat was beating up YouTubers when he couldn’t meet Robert Whittaker within the Octagon. The unlucky reply is that it’s robust to inform when precisely this was filmed, solely that Litvan launched a video hyping up the sparring session about two weeks in the past.

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Khamzat Chimaev’s profession is in an odd place. “Borz” is clearly very proficient, however after an electrical begin to his UFC profession, his exercise has fallen off a cliff. He’s fought simply 4 instances within the final 4 years and solely as soon as at Middleweight, which is a tough solution to construct momentum and lock down a 185-pound title shot. One thing retains going incorrect on the final second, and now his profession is stalling.

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