{"id":595238,"date":"2026-04-09T08:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595238\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:16:12","slug":"video-khamzat-chimaev-strangles-ufc-legend-in-less-than-a-minute-i-grew-up-on-his-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595238\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Khamzat Chimaev strangles UFC legend in less than a minute: \u2018I grew up on his fights\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Midnight Mania!<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Wednesday, April 8, 2026.<\/p>\n

Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s d\u2019arce choke is legitimately so slick and powerful. Alongside Islam Makhachev, he is leading the pack in pushing that strangle into the elite meta of top control.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think Cub Swanson vs. Kevin Vallejos would play out in the veteran\u2019s favor, but I respect the mentality.<\/p>\n

More stellar quotes from the wordsmiths of UFC 327 (if that sounds sarcastic, it\u2019s not. I love these quotes wholeheartedly):<\/p>\n

This is the correct way to treat Josh Hokit and his schtick.<\/p>\n

The UFC is matching Yakhyaev versus a Light Heavyweight with a pulse? Nice.<\/p>\n

Every Chingiz Allazov setup is so cool.<\/p>\n

Slips, rips, and KO clips<\/p>\n

Beautiful fake low and throw high:<\/p>\n

I expect Horiguchi vs. Kape 2 to be a much more competitive fight, as Kape has learned how to use his athleticism in a smarter way.<\/p>\n

Get involved with Mania community in The Feed!<\/p>\n

\"AlexBehunin\"<\/a>\"MMA<\/p>\n

Midnight Music: Rock, 1980<\/p>\n

Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Midnight Mania! Let\u2019s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,43768,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-595238","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-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-midnight-mania","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595238","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=595238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}