{"id":75607,"date":"2025-08-17T18:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75607\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T18:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:16:06","slug":"mick-maynards-shoes-whats-next-for-khamzat-chimaev-after-ufc-319-title-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75607\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Maynard&#8217;s Shoes: What&#8217;s next for Khamzat Chimaev after UFC 319 title win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khamzat Chimaev started a new era at middleweight Saturday at <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 319;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 319<\/a> when he overwhelmed Dricus Du Plessis to claim gold.<\/p>\n<p>Chimaev (15-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) was on a mission for 25 minutes against Du Plessis (23-3 MMA, 9-1 UFC), and it resulted in a unanimous decision win and the belt at United Center in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With a number of potential contenders at 185 pounds, who will be first to challenge Chimaev? Watch the video above for thoughts and analysis on his future after UFC 319.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/17\/ufc-319-matchmaker-khamzat-chimaev-title-win-next-opponent\/85700280007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 319 matchmaker: Who&#039;s next for Khamzat Chimaev after title win?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 319 matchmaker: Who&#8217;s next for Khamzat Chimaev after title win?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev started a new era at middleweight Saturday at UFC 319 when he overwhelmed Dricus Du Plessis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,20207,22191,786,4120,785,85,787,9222,58276],"class_list":{"0":"post-75607","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-dricus-du-plessis","11":"tag-du-plessis","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-khamzat-chimaev","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-unanimous-decision","18":"tag-united-center-in-chicago"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75607","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=75607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}