Sneako<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t like that kind of fighting,\u201d Diaz said. \u201cIt\u2019s boring to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chimaev dominated Du Plessis for five rounds, improving to 9-0 in the UFC in only his third fight to go the distance. Chimaev went three rounds against Kamaru Usman and Gilbert Burns but dismantled the other six with ease, including former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s supposed to be the big scary guy, right?\u201d Diaz said. \u201cAnd remember when he had him in side control and he\u2019s holding him? Dominating him, right? And then he let\u2019s go and hits him a little bit, little soft punches and sh*t. That\u2019s what people don\u2019t understand about the style. Like, that type of fighter is a scared fighter. He\u2019s scared for his life. \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s afraid that if he let\u2019s go to hit him hard that motherf*cker might get up and get the f*ck away from him, so that\u2019s a scared style to me. He comes off as this big intimidating guy, but it\u2019s a big old scared f*cking child. That\u2019s why I tweeted about I said, he\u2019s not a fighter because you can tell by how scared he is holding him that tight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chimaev will likely defend his UFC title for the first time against the winner of key UFC middleweight main event bouts Nassourdine Imavov vs. Caio Borralho and Anthony Hernandez vs. Reinier de Ridder in September and October, respectively.<\/p>\n
As for Diaz, he hasn\u2019t competed since winning a boxing decision over Jorge Masvidal in July 2024, rebounding from a loss to Jake Paul in the squared circle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nate Diaz is not a fan of Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s fighting style, especially after watching him take the UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-87123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87123","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=87123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}