{"id":125420,"date":"2025-09-07T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125420\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:28:07","slug":"chimaev-reacts-to-imavovs-main-event-win-title-shot-callout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125420\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimaev Reacts To Imavov\u2019s Main Event Win, Title Shot Callout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Khamzat Chimaev appears to have his first middleweight title challenger after French contender, Nassourdine Imavov, turned in a main event showcase Saturday night at UFC Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This weekend was built around Imavov\u2019s middleweight matchup against fellow contender, Caio Borralho. Imavov was not only headlining his second-straight UFC event, but he was competing in front of a wild home crowd. The 185-pound fight was pegged as a No. 1 Contender\u2019s bout and both fighters competed like a UFC title shot was on the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When the dust settled it was Imavov who did more than enough over the course of five rounds to earn a unanimous decision victory to push his current win streak to five. In turn, Imavov is lined up for a potential shot at Chimaev his next time out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">During his post-fight interview Imavov screamed, \u201cI am next!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cGood fight! Assalamu Alaykum,\u201d wrote Chimaev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Well, Maniacs? Who gets the first shot at Khamzat\u2019s UFC middleweight title? Imavov or RDR?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC Paris results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/385116\/ufc-paris-results-live-streaming-updates-imavov-vs-borralho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev appears to have his first middleweight title challenger after French contender, Nassourdine Imavov, turned in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,37644,702,7788],"class_list":["post-125420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}