{"id":49409,"date":"2025-08-07T03:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49409\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T03:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:18:08","slug":"video-watch-khamzat-chimaev-rip-pads-manhandle-training-partner-ahead-of-ufc-319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49409\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Watch Khamzat Chimaev rip pads, manhandle training partner ahead of UFC 319"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Khamzat Chimaev appears to be in phenomenal shape ahead of his middleweight title fight at UFC 319 against Dricus Du Plessis.<\/p>\n<p>Chimaev (14-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) has never tasted defeat in his professional MMA career, and will get the chance to prove he&#8217;s the best in the world on Aug. 16 at United Center in Chicago. The 185-pound championship bout serves as the main event of UFC 319. Du Plessis (23-2 MMA, 9-0 UFC) will attempt to record his third title defense.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Just 10 days out from the fight, Chimaev looks sharp. At a private workout at Jaxxon Gym, Chimaev showed off his skills, displaying sharp striking and slick grappling while rolling with a training partner.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full workout in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/06\/ufc-319-watch-khamzat-chimaevs-private-workout-ahead-of-title-fight\/85552729007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 319: Watch Khamzat Chimaev&#039;s private workout ahead of title fight;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 319: Watch Khamzat Chimaev&#8217;s private workout ahead of title fight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Khamzat Chimaev appears to be in phenomenal shape ahead of his middleweight title fight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,41977,20207,22191,786,4120,41976,785,85,787],"class_list":["post-49409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-championship-bout","tag-dricus-du-plessis","tag-du-plessis","tag-fighting","tag-khamzat-chimaev","tag-middleweight-title-fight","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49409","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=49409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}