Khamzat Chimaev receives unusual challenge from US welterweight

Khamzat Chimaev received an absorbing situation from an American welterweight; "I connection you 50 1000 dollars...", Joaquin Buckley wrote connected his Instagram. The American welterweight often calls retired the biggest names to pull attention, and this clip his people was Khamzat, known for his exceptional wrestling abilities successful the UFC and MMA.

Chimaev is surely 1 of the champion wrestlers successful UFC history, but the absorption is not lone connected his achievements successful wrestling, but connected the mode his wrestling skills predominate successful the cage, wrong MMA rules. Khamzat has won the immense bulk of his matches acknowledgment to these elite skills. In immoderate fights, helium did not request wrestling truthful much, and lone Gilbert Burns managed to somewhat neutralize Khamzat's wrestling and groundwork.

In his past appearance, Chimaev won the UFC middleweight title, wholly dominating Dricus Du Plessis. He knocked him down 12 times and had astir 22 minutes of power successful the 25-minute match. It's hard to ideate anyone stopping the undefeated Chimaev astatine this point.

Buckley's challenge

Joaquin Buckley posted a video connected his Instagram showing Khamzat taking a beating, with the caption: "So galore punches conscionable to wrestle successful the archetypal 5 seconds of the fight. Khamzat, I'm offering you $50,000 if you enactment connected your feet for astatine slightest 1 round. But you person to enactment connected your feet for the full round. Nassourdin Imavov, bash you privation to lucifer the offer? Okay, present it's $100,000. Let's spot if you judge successful your hands."

Buckley's call-out isn't conscionable astir the imaginable combat with Khamzat, but besides Khamzat's adjacent lucifer against the aforementioned Imavov. It's wide that Chimaev won't judge this challenge, but Buckley continues to gully attraction by calling retired celebrated fighters. In caller days, helium has besides mentioned Shavkat Rahmonov, and his people was besides Chimaev. However, possibly Buckley is forgetting that successful his past quality helium was outclassed by Kamaru Usman, who defeated him without immoderate large problems.