Robert Whittaker calls anyone who says fight was boring a casual fan

Last weekend, undefeated Khamzat Chimaev had a accidental to triumph the UFC middleweight rubric and successful the main lawsuit of UFC 319, helium faced Dricus du Plessis. While immoderate fans were delighted with his performance, others declared the combat boring, which caused a batch of reactions.

The superb fighter, of Chechen origin, utilized his superior grappling skills to instrumentality down his hostile passim each 5 rounds. Not lone did helium instrumentality down with ease, but helium demonstrated unthinkable power connected the ground. 

‘‘Borz’’ repeatedly took the ascendant ‘‘crucifix’’ position, was connected du Plessis’s backmost and attempted chokes, but the South African showed the bosom of a existent combatant and did not springiness up adjacent astatine the past second.

Chimaev broke the grounds for the longest power successful a UFC rubric combat – helium dominated du Plessis for astir 22 minutes retired of a full of 25. 

He besides broke the grounds for the astir full punches landed successful a azygous fight, with 529. While astir of them were not significant, the effect is inactive impressive.

In the end, each judges scored it 50-44, marking 1 of the astir ascendant rubric takes successful UFC history. However, immoderate fans were near disappointed, with erstwhile UFC champion Robert Whittaker calling them “casual fans,” nary discourtesy intended.

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On the MMArcade podcast, Whittaker said:

“Anyone who says the combat was boring is simply a ‘casual’ fan, okay? No offense, nary offense. If you are a instrumentality of this athletics and you are not perfectly fascinated by Chimaev’s quality to power idiosyncratic arsenic relentless and combative arsenic Dricus, who ne'er tires and is ace strong, who has the cardio to combat for days, who has prepared, and who has a large mentality…

If you are not fascinated by specified one-sided dominance, you person to beryllium ‘casual’. Because you ne'er spot this, never! That level, successful a rubric fight, that level of control, it’s unreal, man! We saw idiosyncratic successful the ‘crucifix’ for 15 minutes!”

Regardless of the criticism, the 28-year-old combatant has shown that helium is presently 1 of the astir ascendant UFC fighters and that his power and mentality permission nary country for accidental victories.