YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cKhamzat, new middleweight champion, and yeah, the division is in good hands,\u201d Adesanya said.<\/p>\n
Chimaev immediately set the tone for the fight less than 10 seconds in, securing a takedown and neutralizing du Plessis for the entirety of the first round, keeping \u201cStillknocks\u201d in the crucifix position for a huge chunk of the round. The dominance continued throughout the fight, with Chimaev scoring a 10-8 in the third round.<\/p>\n
Du Plessis had a brief moment in the fifth round where he achieved full mount and looked to lock in a rear-naked choke, but Chimaev was able to survive and secure his championship win. All three judges scored the bout 50-44 in favor of the new champion.<\/p>\n
Like most who watched, Adesanya was impressed with Chimaev\u2019s cardio throughout the 25 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot what I expected,\u201d Adesanya explained. \u201cBut I\u2019m glad Khamzat fixed his cardio, or improved his cardio to the point where he can go five rounds and just rag doll people.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a mess. That\u2019s a mess to deal with, because I thought DDP, maybe Round 4, he\u2019d be able to stuff the takedowns because Khamzat would get tired, but he didn\u2019t slow down. He slowed down DDP. He slowed him down which is very impressive because that\u2019s why he finished me in Round 4 because I thought, OK, I got him now. But he just finds a way to get his third wind, his fourth wind. But Khamzat made sure he didn\u2019t get the first wind and just smothered him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya was very impressed with Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s championship-winning performance at UFC 319. Chimaev dominated Dricus du Plessis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-78108","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78108","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=78108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}