{"id":71859,"date":"2025-08-15T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71859\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:05:10","slug":"did-khamzat-make-weight-boxy-borz-returns-surprising-mark-for-ufc-319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71859\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Khamzat make weight? Boxy \u2018Borz\u2019 returns surprising mark for UFC 319"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">His services are no longer needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s because Chimaev successfully made the middleweight mark. In fact, \u201cBorz\u201d came in two pounds under at 183, a surprising number considering the former welterweight needed the dreaded box of shame to weigh in. Regardless, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/5\/14\/24429853\/ufc-319-odds-surprising-favorite-opens-dricus-du-plessis-vs-khamzat-chimaev-title-fight-chicago-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his Dricus du Plessis title fight<\/a> is now official for \u201cThe Windy City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dSaying that I became everything people thought Khamzat would be, I agree with that. That\u2019s because I\u2019m built differently. I\u2019ll show that again on the 16th,\u201d Du Plessis told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mma\/news\/ufc-319-dricus-du-plessis-agrees-with-sentiment-that-he-is-everything-khamzat-chimaev-was-meant-to-be\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Sports<\/a>. \u201cIf you look at our records, Khamzat has eight wins in the UFC and I have nine. Go compare our resumes, it\u2019s ridiculous. From a wrestling and grappling perspective, he does not do something that hasn\u2019t been seen before. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s 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\u2019s not wrestling and it\u2019s not grappling. It\u2019s MMA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC 319 weigh ins results and video click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-events-ppv\/382703\/ufc-319-early-weigh-ins-video-live-results-updates-du-plessis-vs-khamzat-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For much more on this weekend\u2019s UFC 319 PPV event click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His services are no longer needed. That\u2019s because Chimaev successfully made the middleweight mark. In fact, \u201cBorz\u201d came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,42367,33601,638,82,42366,44706,702,9468,4454],"class_list":["post-71859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","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-weigh-ins","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-videos","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71859","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=71859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}