{"id":541998,"date":"2026-03-15T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541998\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:13:07","slug":"khalil-rountree-details-brutal-training-with-khamzat-chimaev-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541998\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalil Rountree details brutal training with Khamzat Chimaev (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-announcements\/428605\/bad-blood-dana-white-announces-khamzat-chimaev-vs-sean-strickland-to-headlines-ufc-328-in-newark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set to defend his title for the first time in two months<\/a> (Sat., May 9, 2026) against heated rival Sean Strickland in the main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/428701\/ufc-328-card-start-time-date-and-location-khamzat-vs-strickland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 328<\/a> inside the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey \u2014 and the champion is already hard at work in training camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The experience, as Rountree explained, was nothing short of eye-opening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt was very intense, but everything that I expected,\u201d Rountree said on the JAXXON Podcast. \u201cI knew I was going to come in here and do my absolute best, but it was painful. There were definitely moments where I\u2019d call them humbling because they make me question certain things I even say about myself. Sometimes I think I\u2019m really good or in good shape, and then I face a workout like this, and it makes me realize that there\u2019s so much more to go. And so it\u2019s eye-opening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rountree also had to endure sparring with Chimaev, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/428892\/ufc-328s-khamzat-chimaev-is-paying-elite-fighters-to-try-to-submit-him-in-training-hes-putting-a-bounty-on-himself-strickland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who dropped the former title challenger<\/a> in a viral clip from their session. Beyond sparring, the champion\u2019s training is infamous for its grueling cardio, punishing drills, and recently revealed competitive \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/428892\/ufc-328s-khamzat-chimaev-is-paying-elite-fighters-to-try-to-submit-him-in-training-hes-putting-a-bounty-on-himself-strickland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bounties<\/a>\u201d \u2014 where he pays elite fighters if they can beat or submit him in the gym, and so far, no one has collected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s clear that Chimaev\u2019s relentless preparation is setting the tone for his UFC 328 showdown against Strickland, and anyone watching knows that stepping into his camp is as brutal as facing him in the Octagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev is set to defend his title for the first time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-541998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541998","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=541998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}