In effort to give himself the best chance to win UFC gold, Chimaev has brought former Olympic gold medalist wrestler, Abdulrashid Sadulaev, into camp to help train for DDP. While Chimaev is already one of the most dominant ground specialists in the division today it never hurts to level up again. Training alongside someone like Sadulaev will certainly up Chimaev’s game heading into UFC 319.
On Friday, Khamzat took to social media to show off a grappling session he shared with Sadulaev. In the 60-second clip, Chimaev turned away multiple takedown attempts while staying on his feet. It was pretty impressive and ultimately a showing of skill that should strike some concern into du Plessis and his fans.
That’s good and all but it doesn’t replicate anything Driccus is going to be doing.
Relentless awkward goofy strikes followed by a takedown disguised as a strike
That article saying he’s trying to avoid being fraud checked is odd. If he loses to the champ it doesn’t mean he’s a fraud lol.
But I digress. I don’t think anyone expects DDP to out wrestle Chimaev. Pretty sure everyone thinks DDP has to survive 1.5-2 rounds and if he can do that Chimaev will gas out and DDP will easily win. I still think Whitaker would have done that if it wasn’t for the fluke teeth issue and it being a preexisting problem. I don’t think people put enough stock in the Usman fight. Usman on short notice showed exactly how to beat Chimaev and easily would have won a 5 round fight. Even Burns gave him a lot of problems.