His services are no longer needed.
That’s because Chimaev successfully made the middleweight mark. In fact, “Borz” came in two pounds under at 183, a surprising number considering the former welterweight needed the dreaded box of shame to weigh in. Regardless, his Dricus du Plessis title fight is now official for “The Windy City.”
”Saying that I became everything people thought Khamzat would be, I agree with that. That’s because I’m built differently. I’ll show that again on the 16th,” Du Plessis told CBS Sports. “If you look at our records, Khamzat has eight wins in the UFC and I have nine. Go compare our resumes, it’s ridiculous. From a wrestling and grappling perspective, he does not do something that hasn’t been seen before. I don’t think there’s been a lot of guys that do it the way I do it. And when it comes to pure wrestling and pure grappling, of course, Khamzat is amazing, but this is different. It’s not wrestling and it’s not grappling. It’s MMA.”
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