Israel Adesanya was very impressed with Khamzat Chimaev’s championship-winning efficiency at UFC 319.
Chimaev dominated Dricus du Plessis over 5 rounds in the primary occasion of Saturday’s pay-per-view card in Chicago to win the middleweight title, and enhance his file to 15-0.
Adesanya, the previous two-time UFC middleweight champ, watched the bout, and documented his response on his YouTube channel.
“Khamzat, new middleweight champion, and yeah, the division is in good arms,” Adesanya mentioned.
Chimaev instantly set the tone for the battle lower than 10 seconds in, securing a takedown and neutralizing du Plessis for the whole thing of the primary spherical, retaining “Stillknocks” within the crucifix place for an enormous chunk of the spherical. The dominance continued all through the battle, with Chimaev scoring a 10-8 within the third spherical.
Du Plessis had a short second within the fifth spherical the place he achieved full mount and regarded to lock in a rear-naked choke, however Chimaev was in a position to survive and safe his championship win. All three judges scored the bout 50-44 in favor of the brand new champion.
Like most who watched, Adesanya was impressed with Chimaev’s cardio all through the 25 minutes.
“Not what I anticipated,” Adesanya defined. “However I’m glad Khamzat fastened his cardio, or improved his cardio to the purpose the place he can go 5 rounds and simply rag doll folks.
“That’s a large number. That’s a large number to take care of, as a result of I assumed DDP, perhaps Spherical 4, he’d be capable of stuff the takedowns as a result of Khamzat would get drained, however he didn’t decelerate. He slowed down DDP. He slowed him down which could be very spectacular as a result of that’s why he completed me in Spherical 4 as a result of I assumed, OK, I obtained him now. However he simply finds a method to get his third wind, his fourth wind. However Khamzat made positive he didn’t get the primary wind and simply smothered him.”
