Khamzat Chimaev: The Borz dominated the welterweight division and rose to the top by dominating division apex contender Gilbert Burns in UFC 273. Chimaev opens up to MMA hour about his clash with Durinho amidst his next match with Welterweight biggie Nate Diaz at UFC 279. Follow UFC news and UFC Live Updates with InsideSport.IN
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Khamzat Chimaev: Borz recalls UFC 273 with Gilbert Burns, “Don’t fight with him like in the streets”
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Khamzat Chimaev vs Borz: ‘Borz ‘vs ‘Durinho’ was a bloodshed brawl lasting for three tough rounds. The last round saw a heavy exchange of killer blows between the two. However, the fight resulted in a unanimous victory for Chimaev while Gilbert Burns received a win bonus for his performance. In the UFC 273 post-fight press conference, Dana White compared the rise of Chimaev to Conor McGregor & Ronda Rousey.
“When I win my fight, that last fight, it was a tough fight for me,” Chimaev said. “Everyone was happy talking about, ‘He didn’t finish that guy.’ The guy was No. 2, one of the toughest guys. He almost won against [UFC welterweight champion Kamaru] Usman as well. Knocked him down, almost. I didn’t do my job, like how to do it, I didn’t listen to my coach.
“I made him famous. The guy was nothing before me. I made him famous, and he lost the fight, he was more happy. I was angry after that fight — I won the fight. I was angry because I didn’t finish that guy. I don’t understand some guys become happy when they lost the fight. He’s going everywhere doing interviews, [saying ‘I’m] going to fight with him again.’ Yeah, we’re going to fight, whenever he wants. But he will never be champ, because if you’re happy when you lost a fight, you’re never going to be champ. … He said, ‘Five rounds, I can win that fight.’ If you look at him the last seconds of the fight, if he can fight five rounds, why did he look at the time, running from me? I was running after him the last two minutes, I was tired. If it was two more rounds, I would finish him.”
“Everyone’s saying he did good takedown defense,” Chimaev said. “I took him down easy. When I lift him up, when I drop him down, then I’m like, ‘Now I have to knock him out.’ If I drop him one time, then he will go down after my right hand.
“All fight I forget the time, the rounds, the last round my coach comes to me, ‘Don’t fight with him like in the streets.’ Then I understand now I have to do something different. But I won my fight.”
“I don’t understand why some people lose, why they’re happy,” he said. “I don’t understand that thing. Everyone saying, ‘Gilbert did good, Gilbert did good. He’s good, he’s good.’ Yeah, he’s f****** good, how many years was he in the UFC? I start with MMA five years ago. I come from nowhere. I come from the f******* streets. I didn’t do anything professional. Wrestling for me was a hobby. I was working as security, I was sometimes wrestling, and I became Swedish champion. My friend said come to MMA, five years ago I start MMA, now I’m top-3 and I smashed that guy and everyone is talking about it.
“I’m also human. Everyone’s thinking like I’m some robot. Yes, I speak hard when I go the press conference, ‘I’m going to smash that guy,’ because I think I’m going to smash him. That’s why I say that I have to do it. Otherwise, I didn’t want to sit there and say, ‘I’m the humblest guy here,’ something like that. You don’t make money like that, you don’t do your job good. People don’t want to watch that s***.”
Khamzat Chimaev: Borz recalls UFC 273 with Gilbert Burns, “Don’t fight with him like in the streets”
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