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Social media influencers are 0-2 towards ranked Middleweights in 2024.
Earlier this 12 months, former champion Sean Strickland made headlines for bloodying Sneako in a UFC Efficiency Institute sparring session. Within the video above, rising contender Khamzat Chimaev is following his lead. Chimaev takes on Russian YouTuber Litvan, whose objective was to outlive a minute within the cage with “Borz.” Predictably, it didn’t go too nicely, and the influencer was left curled up in agony on the canvas in brief trend.
That’s all nicely and good, however … wasn’t Khamzat deathly sick just some weeks in the past? Followers have been fast to query the timeline on social media, questioning why Khamzat was beating up YouTubers when he couldn’t meet Robert Whittaker within the Octagon. The unlucky reply is that it’s robust to inform when precisely this was filmed, solely that Litvan launched a video hyping up the sparring session about two weeks in the past.
A technique or one other, it’s unhealthy optics.
Khamzat Chimaev’s profession is in an odd place. “Borz” is clearly very gifted, however after an electrical begin to his UFC profession, his exercise has fallen off a cliff. He’s fought simply 4 instances within the final 4 years and solely as soon as at Middleweight, which is a tough technique to construct momentum and lock down a 185-pound title shot. One thing retains going flawed on the final second, and now his profession is stalling.
At the very least he’s wholesome sufficient for Crypto scams.
Insomnia
Israel Adesanya is placing within the work forward of his return to motion towards Dricus Du Plessis.
Ignacio Bahamondes vs. Manuel Torres is superior on a number of ranges. Two large and gifted Light-weight prospects who will attempt to destroy each other!
Confirmado Tremendo duelo hispano para The Sphere
Me confirman las fuentes que es un trato hecho y el loco Manuel Torres se enfrentará a La jaula Ignacio Bahamondes el 14 de septiembre en Las Vegas
Quien gana?? pic.twitter.com/RYFKFj5Xpu
— MMA Latinoamérica (@ClubDeLasMMA) July 11, 2024
Any jiu-jitsu gymnasium price its salt must be instructing takedowns along with rolling on the ground.
Dustin Poirier is feeling sassy this week.
Rafael dos Anjos’ jiu-jitsu is superb and possibly underappreciated as a result of he’s been managed by among the finest wrestlers of the final decade.
Betting on the UFC Denver foremost occasion? Take this into consideration …
A basic clip of Light-weight familial violence.
Brothers/ UFC fighters, Joe and Dan Lauzon settle their beef on the household BBQ
Sanctioned Pig Roast Barbecue Bout: pic.twitter.com/FFL62uJvC3
— Combined Martial Aus (@MixedMartialAus) July 10, 2024
Slips, rips, and KO clips
There’ll all the time be a spot for toilet fistfights on this column. Additionally, that headbutt out of the clinch was form of clear …
quarter-hour of motion and scrambles between two OGs!
Caught on one leg with a robust left hook:
Masashi Kumura tried to commit a murder reside on pay-per-view this previous Sunday. Nonetheless the loss of life blow was arrange from the very starting. Let’s see how he did it….
— M.T.C (@F______Dolphin) July 10, 2024
Random Land
An fascinating technique.
Midnight Music: Hip-hop, 1994
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