{"id":125477,"date":"2025-09-07T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125477\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:22:07","slug":"nassourdine-imavov-thinks-he-sealed-khamzat-chimaev-title-fight-following-ufc-paris-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125477\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassourdine Imavov thinks he sealed Khamzat Chimaev title fight following UFC Paris win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nassourdine Imavov believes he has secured a shot at the UFC Middleweight Championship.<\/p>\n

\"Nassourdine<\/p>\n

Imavov made the most of his opportunity in the main event of UFC Paris. He shared the Octagon with Caio Borralho, who hadn\u2019t suffered a defeat since his second pro MMA fight back in 2015. The UFC Paris headliner went the distance, and Imavov showcased his high-level striking to nab the unanimous decision victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sniper\u201d was fighting for a potential shot at Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s 185-pound gold. While Imavov put forth an impressive showing,<\/a> the winner of Reinier de Ridder vs. Anthony Hernandez also hopes to be next in line for a title opportunity.<\/p>\n

As far as Imavov is concerned, he believes there is no competition for the No. 1 contender at middleweight (h\/t MMAJunkie<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople said that against Adesanya, he was the best striker in the world and I couldn\u2019t fight with him on the feet, but I knocked him out,\u201d Imavov said during the UFC Paris post-fight presser. \u201cThis guy, Caio \u2013 I didn\u2019t have to fight against him, but I did it. He was coming from 10 years in a row of victories, 16 straight victories, seven in a row in the UFC, and I won every round. Once again, I proved I\u2019m the best. For me, there\u2019s no discussion that I\u2019m going to fight for the belt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Imavov\u2019s winning streak has been extended to five. His last defeat was back in Jan. 2023 when he suffered a unanimous decision loss to Sean Strickland, who went on to become the UFC Middleweight Champion in a shocking upset over Israel Adesanya that same year. Imavov now finds himself knocking on Chimaev\u2019s door, but will the UFC brass give him the title shot if the winner of de Ridder vs. Hernandez also delivers fireworks?<\/p>\n

BJPenn.com will keep you posted on the middleweight title race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nassourdine Imavov believes he has secured a shot at the UFC Middleweight Championship. Imavov made the most of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-125477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125477","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=125477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}