{"id":129628,"date":"2025-09-09T07:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129628\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:08:09","slug":"robert-whittaker-details-how-nassourdine-imavov-can-dethrone-khamzat-chimaev-in-middleweight-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129628\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Whittaker details how Nassourdine Imavov can dethrone Khamzat Chimaev in middleweight clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Whittaker tabs the best way Nassourdine Imavov can shock Khamzat Chimaev<\/p>\n

During a recent episode of the MMArcade Podcast<\/a>, Robert Whittaker reacted to Imavov\u2019s performance and previewed a potential clash with Chimaev.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how anyone beats Khamzat at the moment,\u201d Whittaker said. \u201cHis wrestling is so high-level. I feel like the way to beat him is with high-level jiu-jitsu.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Imavov has high-level back jiu-jitsu \u2013 which I know he does have high-level jiu-jitsu \u2013 but if it\u2019s that high-level, like Gilbert Burns high-level, then maybe we\u2019ll see something. But also, fights are funny. Anything can happen. Maybe Chimaev dives into a knee or foot.\u201d (h\/t MMA Junkie<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Chimaev has briefly struggled against high-level strikers and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu elites during his career, including welterweight Gilbert Burns<\/a>. Burns handed Chimaev arguably the toughest test of his career at UFC 273, as Chimaev squeaked by with a decision victory.<\/p>\n

While Imavov is a dynamic grappler, his striking has grown leaps and bounds since he first walked to the Octagon. Imavov\u2019s boxing was on full-display in a stunning TKO win over Adesanya at UFC Saudi Arabia earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Whittaker tabs the best way Nassourdine Imavov can shock Khamzat Chimaev During a recent episode of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,4120,785,80736,17831,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-129628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-khamzat-chimaev","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-nassourdine-imavov","14":"tag-robert-whittaker","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129628","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=129628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}