{"id":124526,"date":"2025-09-07T02:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124526\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:24:07","slug":"khamzat-beats-both-pros-react-to-nassourdine-imavovs-big-win-at-ufc-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124526\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Khamzat beats both\u2019: Pros react to Nassourdine Imavov\u2019s big win at UFC Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nassourdine Imavov sent his hometown crowd happy, but it may not be the type of performance he needed to earn a title shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Imavov faced Borralho in a pivotal middleweight clash to headline UFC Paris on Saturday at Accor Arena. The fight went all five rounds, but Imavov found himself a step ahead of Borralho for most of the 25-minute contest to earn the huge win, and keeping himself in title contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The bout served as a sort of two-pack challenge laid out by UFC CEO Dana White. When the UFC announced that Reinier de Ridder and Anthony Hernandez would battle in the main event of UFC Vancouver in October, White essentially said that the best fighter to emerge from those matchups would get the first shot at new middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev \u2014 who captured the belt from Dricus du Plessis at UFC 319.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC pros were taking in the action and gave their thoughts on Imavov\u2019s dominant decision victory. Check out some of their comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nassourdine Imavov sent his hometown crowd happy, but it may not be the type of performance he needed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,1347,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-124526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-latest-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-ufc","13":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}