{"id":79467,"date":"2025-08-18T19:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79467\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T19:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:55:10","slug":"luke-rockhold-backs-joe-rogans-pick-for-one-man-who-can-beat-khamzat-chimaev-after-ufc-319-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79467\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Rockhold backs Joe Rogan&#8217;s pick for one man who can beat Khamzat Chimaev after UFC 319 dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Luke Rockhold and Joe Rogan are in agreement that there may just be one man who can finally end Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s undefeated run.<\/p>\n<p>After looking unbeatable for his entire UFC career <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/dricus-du-plessis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dricus Du Plessis<\/a> was made to look like a beginner at times as <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/08\/17\/dricus-du-plessis-vs-khamzat-chimaev-ufc-319-result-complete-domination-sees-new-middleweight-champion-crowned\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chimaev utterly dominated him<\/a> to win the middleweight title at <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/ufc-319\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 319<\/a>. And after the fact, the question has arisen if not the South African then who will dethrone the new champion.<\/p>\n<p>A key factor will have to be strong wrestling, both offensively and more importantly defensively. And there\u2019s one impressive promotional newcomer who both Rogan and former title holder Rockhold concur could be the man.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Rockhold believes Reinier De Ridder could defeat Khamzat Chimaev<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/luke-rockhold\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Rockhold<\/a> is currently preparing for his first Misfits Boxing bout against <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/darren-till\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darren Till<\/a> on August 30 in Manchester. However, that didn\u2019t stop him tuning in to watch as <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/khamzat-chimaev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khamzat Chimaev<\/a> finally claimed middleweight gold.<\/p>\n<p>And asked in an exclusive chat by Bloody Elbow who would be able to beat the Chechen champ, he replied: \u201cWell who can wrestle? De Ridder, yeah, he could be tough, he could be a problem for Khamzat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2230535881-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Khamzat Chimaev gets his hands raised after beating Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 319\" class=\"wp-image-239155\" \/>Photo by Ed Mulholland\/Zuffa LLC<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like to give him much credit because he\u2019s not that good but I still think a guy like Paulo Costa would pose problems. His wrestling defence is not bad and look at what he did against Yoel Romero, even though Romero doesn\u2019t stick to his wrestling but he was able to defend a lot of takedowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in reality, I like De Ridder. He\u2019s probably the number one choice for this thing, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Rogan named Reinier De Ridder as potential boogeyman after UFC 319<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same opinion as <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/joe-rogan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Rogan<\/a>, who said on the post-fight broadcast that he feels the former ONE FC Champion might be the only one to trouble Chimaev. His defensive wrestling will be key, but questions remain about his striking and top level experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReinier de Ridder, in particular, given his ability to grapple on the ground, and also his ability to land shots standing,\u201d Rogan said while discussing Chimaev\u2019s list of potential opponents with Daniel Cormier and Jon Anik after the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParticularly that knee he lands. That is nasty\u2026 Toughness, experience, he throws those combinations with that long lead-in knee. He\u2019s interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Rockhold and Joe Rogan are in agreement that there may just be one man who can finally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,17724,26789,5899,3137,10988,82,38068],"class_list":["post-79467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dricus-du-plessis","tag-joe-rogan","tag-khamzat-chimaev","tag-luke-rockhold","tag-misfits-boxing","tag-sports","tag-ufc-319"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79467","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=79467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}