Former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, in a podcast a year ago, spoke about Khamzat Chimaev’s tactical error, which manifested itself in his title fight with Sean Strickland at UFC 328.
"You have to look at all the scenarios: what if it goes this way, what if it goes that way, what if we go from here? You have to take everything into account. Personally, creating a fight plan wasn’t difficult for me. I always had one option: I’d go in and take it to the ground. If it works, great; if not, I’ll try a hundred times. But you don’t see that in Khamzat’s fights. “Take Gilbert [Burns] or Kamaru [Usman]: in the later rounds, he stops wrestling and fights on his feet. If the fight isn’t going well, he stays on his feet. But if he’d fought those guys on their feet from the start—against both Gilbert and Kamaru—he would have looked better without wasting any extra energy,” Nurmagomedov said on the HUSTLE SHOW podcast.