{"id":896900,"date":"2026-09-18T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896900\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:50:10","slug":"mighty-khamzat-hits-with-such-power-and-ferocity-he-actually-injured-his-hands-and-needs-time-off-from-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896900\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Khamzat hits with such power and ferocity he actually injured his hands and needs time off from UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former UFC middleweight champion, Khamzat Chimaev, needs time off from competition because his hands continue to crumble under the abuse of his powerful punches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI want to fight,\u201d Chimaev told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/510770\/khamzat-chimaev-reveals-details-about-injuries-requiring-time-off-plans-to-challenge-for-ufc-middleweight-title-again#comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s why I want to fight. It\u2019s not crazy big injuries where you need to be off from sparring. It\u2019s just my hands. I punch hard so I always have problems with my hands and I have to fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIt\u2019s not going to take a long time but people think Khamzat is not going to fight,\u201d Chimaev (15-1) added. \u201cIf I do break off, it\u2019s going to be one or two months. Still going to be doing recovery, training.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC middleweight champion, Khamzat Chimaev, needs time off from competition because his hands continue to crumble under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,355512,85,1396],"class_list":["post-896900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-real-american-freestyle-raf-wrestling","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896900","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=896900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}