{"id":74971,"date":"2025-08-17T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74971\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:05:10","slug":"conor-mcgregor-and-nate-diaz-share-very-different-reactions-to-khamzat-chimaevs-title-win-at-ufc-319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74971\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz share very different reactions to Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s title win at UFC 319"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz had very different reactions to Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s victory at UFC 319 last night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Khamzat-Chimaev-Nate-Diaz-UFC-279.jpg\" class=\"nlz w-full h-auto wp-post-image\" alt=\"Khamzat Chimaev, Nate Diaz, UFC 279\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Khamzat Chimaev got the job done \u2013 and he did so in style. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/khamzat-chimaev\/pros-react-after-khamzat-chimaev-dominates-dricus-du-plessis-at-ufc-319\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He dominated<\/a> Dricus du Plessis to claim the UFC middleweight championship, and while he didn\u2019t get the finish, he certainly proved that he can keep the pace up for five rounds. While it\u2019s not clear as to what his next fight will be, one thing is for sure: \u2018Borz\u2019 has silenced a lot of his critics.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-share-his-thoughts-on-khamzat-chimaevs-dominant-win-over-dricus-du-plessis-at-ufc-319\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dana White share his thoughts on Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s dominant win over Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 319<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, Chimaev\u2019s dominant display earned the praise of many, and it certainly led to some interesting reactions from the mixed martial arts world. Some of the biggest and best fighters to have ever competed in the sport were quick to react to the news.<\/p>\n<p>Two people who have had words to say about Chimaev in the past are Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz. As it turns out, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/espnmma\/status\/1956954519763337707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">both reacted<\/a> in very different ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz with very different messages after Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s title win \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC319?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#UFC319<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j7SQxCoGD3\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/j7SQxCoGD3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN MMA (@espnmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espnmma\/status\/1956954519763337707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz had very different reactions to Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s victory at UFC 319 last night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-74971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74971","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=74971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}