{"id":78752,"date":"2025-08-19T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78752\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:19:09","slug":"israel-adesanya-middleweight-is-in-good-hands-with-khamzat-chimaev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78752\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya: \u2018Middleweight is in good hands\u2019 with Khamzat Chimaev"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) boogeyman<\/a> Khamzat Chimaev captured Middleweight gold at UFC 319<\/a> last night (Sat., Aug. 16, 2025) by completely dominating former 185-pound kingpin Dricus du Plessis, winning via unanimous decision inside the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n

In a complete 180, Adesanya now believes the division he once ruled is in very good hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot what I expected, but 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,\u201d Adesanya said on his YouTube channel. \u201cThat\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.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe slowed down DDP. He slowed him down, which is very impressive because that\u2019s why he finished me in Round 4,\u201d Adesanya added. \u201cI 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. Khamzat, new middleweight champion, and yeah, the division is in good hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Depending on how active Chimaev can be, the division may be in incredible hands. Already a big superstar<\/a>, \u201cBorz\u201d now looks nearly unbeatable.<\/p>\n

So, yeah \u2014 \u201cBorz\u201d is not only great for the division, but it\u2019s safe to say the belt is in capable hands.<\/p>\n

For more UFC 319 results, coverage, and highlights click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) boogeyman Khamzat Chimaev captured Middleweight gold at UFC 319 last night (Sat., Aug. 16,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,51993,40762,785,85,51992,1396,6656,14855],"class_list":["post-78752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-full-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78752","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=78752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}