{"id":72186,"date":"2025-08-16T07:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72186\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T07:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:36:11","slug":"khamzat-ignores-would-be-rival-paulo-costa-i-beat-the-guys-who-beat-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72186\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamzat ignores would-be rival Paulo Costa: \u2018I beat the guys who beat him\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC Middleweight contenders Khamzat Chimaev and Paulo Costa have history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their feud began back in Sept. 2022. While still competing at 170-pounds, Khamzat ran into Costa mid-training session at the UFC Performance Institute, and the duo had to be separated<\/a> after an angry exchange of words. Not too long after their altercation, Khamzat missed weight so badly<\/a> he was forced up a division, leaving the two in the same class. The path was clear for a grudge match, and so the bout was booked for UFC 294.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for \u201cBorrachinha,\u201d Chimaev is much less interested and doesn\u2019t care about Costa\u2019s attempts to rebuild hype for their collision. In a recent appearance on the JAXXON podcast<\/a>, Khamzat confirmed that he just isn\u2019t interested in fighting Poor Paulo.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care what Paulo Costa says,\u201d Chimaev said (via MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cI have my life, I have my bank account better than his 10 times. This guy is poor. That\u2019s why he\u2019s trying to call me out and make money. I beat the guys who beat him.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the moment, Chimaev has bigger fish to fry. He\u2019s just hours away from his UFC 319<\/a> main event opportunity versus defending Middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis, and UFC 319 fight week has proven Khamzat is a massive star<\/a>. If victorious, \u201cBorz\u201d will skyrocket further into stardom, and there are plenty of more deserving contenders than Costa.<\/p>\n

If he loses though, maybe the broke Brazilian isn\u2019t such a bad match up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Middleweight contenders Khamzat Chimaev and Paulo Costa have history. Their feud began back in Sept. 2022. While…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,51993,40762,785,85,51992,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-72186","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-full-results","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time","16":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72186","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=72186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}