Ian Garry and Khamzat Chimaev nearly came to blows following the conclusion of UFC Qatar earlier today (Sat., Nov. 22, 2025) LIVE on ESPN+ from inside the ABHA Arena in Doha, Qatar, but luckily their backstage incident only resulted in a shove from the UFC middleweight champion.<\/p>\n
Earlier today, Garry made good on his co-main event showdown with former UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad to capture a unanimous decision win and stake his claim to a potential UFC title shot. Things appeared to be going well for Garry during and after the fight, but that\u2019s before \u201cThe Future\u201d ran into Chimaev backstage.<\/p>\n
The two UFC stars appeared to share a cordial greeting before Garry turned back around and noticed Khamzat kept staring him down. Garry then asked if Chimaev was okay and that\u2019s when things turned ugly. Even UFC Qatar main event winner, Arman Tsarukyan, was involved at one point. The entire ordeal resulted in Khamzat shoving Garry, but it could have been much worse.<\/p>\n
Check out the incident below:<\/p>\n
\u201dI\u2019m gonna f\u2014k you up b\u2014ch,\u201d said Chimaev.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s childish,\u201d responded Garry. \u201cYou\u2019re meant to be a champion in this sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
Afterwards, Garry stepped on stage to partake in UFC Qatar\u2019s post-fight press conference (replay HERE<\/a>) and was asked about his backstage run-in with the UFC middleweight champion. Garry held nothing back in his assessment of Chimaev.<\/p>\n See Garry\u2019s reaction below and let us know your thoughts on this unexpected skirmish!<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re meant to be a champion of this sport,\u201d said Garry. \u201cYou\u2019re a child.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s little d\u2014k energy. I\u2019ll get him one day. They\u2019re all gonna try and grab a hold of my legs, boring little- don\u2019t get me started.\u201d<\/p>\n For complete UFC Qatar results, coverage, and highlights click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Garry and Khamzat Chimaev nearly came to blows following the conclusion of UFC Qatar earlier today (Sat.,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,37644,9468],"class_list":["post-300507","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-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300507","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=300507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}