{"id":77717,"date":"2025-08-18T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77717\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:36:08","slug":"new-ufc-champ-khamzat-chimaev-receives-heros-welcome-home-after-dominant-ufc-319-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77717\/","title":{"rendered":"New UFC champ Khamzat Chimaev receives hero\u2019s welcome home after dominant UFC 319 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Khamzat Chimaev returned home to United Arab Emirates to a warm welcome from his community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Chimaev, who now calls Dubai home, delivered a lopsided performance against Dricus du Plessis in the main event of UFC 319 this past Saturday in Chicago. With the win, \u201cBorz\u201d is now the UFC middleweight champion, and accomplished a feat that many believed would happen after debuting with the UFC in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out Chimaev\u2019s trip back home to the UAE, courtesy of Ushatayka on Instagram, and the hero\u2019s welcome he received with the UFC title draped over his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 31-year-old Chimaev improved his record to 15-0, including nine straight victories to kick off his incredible UFC run. In the championship win over du Plessis, Chimaev landed 12 takedowns in 17 attempts, and racked up over 20 minutes of control time, while also landing over 500 more total strikes than the now former champion in the bout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev returned home to United Arab Emirates to a warm welcome from his community. Chimaev, who now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-77717","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-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77717","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=77717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}