{"id":90480,"date":"2025-08-17T22:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90480\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:25:15","slug":"khamzat-chimaev-reveals-chilling-message-he-sent-to-dricus-du-plessis-and-his-team-during-record-breaking-ufc-319-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90480\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev reveals chilling message he sent to Dricus du Plessis and his team during record-breaking UFC 319 win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The main event of UFC 319 ended up being incredibly one-sided, surprising fans who found it difficult to predict the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Not many expected that <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\">Khamzat Chimaev would beat Dricus du Plessis<\/a> by completely dominating the champion over five rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The South African had no answer for the dominant wrestling of his opponent, which allowed him to entirely dictate the bout from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>While there wasn\u2019t a finish to really put a stamp on his performance, <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/08\/17\/astonishing-stat-proves-just-how-dominant-khamzat-chimaev-was-against-dricus-du-plessis-at-ufc-319\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chimaev still broke records<\/a> in what many believed would be his toughest test.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Borz\u2019 has developed a reputation for being so in control inside the Octagon that he proves this by talking to various people while fighting and this was no different on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Khamzat Chimaev&#8217;s (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KChimaev?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@KChimaev<\/a>) 529 total strikes landed vs Dricus Du Plessis are a new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UFC<\/a> record.<\/p>\n<p>He earned 21:40 of control time, 2nd most in a UFC fight (22:18 by Sean Sherk vs Hermes Franca).<\/p>\n<p>Complete <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC319?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#UFC319<\/a> Main Card Results \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/69LHKjPUVp\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/69LHKjPUVp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UFC News (@UFCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCNews\/status\/1956949869169615142?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 17, 2025<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p> Khamzat Chimaev provided words of encouragement for Dricus du Plessis and his team during the fight<\/p>\n<p>During his post-fight press conference after becoming the middleweight champion, <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/khamzat-chimaev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khamzat Chimaev<\/a> was asked about not being able to finish <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/dricus-du-plessis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dricus du Plessis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Borz\u2019 was questioned on whether this surprised him with how dominant he was over \u2018Stillknocks\u2019 across the five round duration.<\/p>\n<p>Chimaev responded expressing happiness at being able to compete for the full 25 minutes, having fun with his performance rather than trying to end it as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I just working on him so I had some cool time out there. Just spoke with him, spoke with his coach middle of the fight, was happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chimaev was then asked what he was saying to du Plessis and his team inside the Octagon, having done similar things in the past.<\/p>\n<p>While in complete control of a fighter that was previously undefeated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/category\/ufc-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC<\/a>, he gave them some words of encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said good job, work harder guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khamzat Chimaev worried for his black belt after not submitting Dricus du Plessis<\/p>\n<p>There were moments at UFC 319 where in previous fights, Khamzat Chimaev has been able to finish his opponents when he gets them in those positions.<\/p>\n<p>He specifically emphasized this in the closing moments of the fight to try and cap off his performance with a submission.<\/p>\n<p>When Chimaev was asked why he thinks he wasn\u2019t able to put Dricus du Plessis away, \u2018Borz\u2019 spoke about making a mistake that had him questioning whether his jiu-jitsu coach would penalize him for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust because I was sweating. I went out there in the last 30 seconds and tried to finish him. I heard my corner say 30 seconds, that means to go to meet him. So, I tried but I made a mistake. Thankful for my coach, he gives the black belt, but I was like, when I went under, [maybe] I don\u2019t have a black belt now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The main event of UFC 319 ended up being incredibly one-sided, surprising fans who found it difficult to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,47631,451,47632,3,452,453,47633],"class_list":{"0":"post-90480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-dricus-du-plessis","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-khamzat-chimaev","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-ufc-319"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}