Khamzat Chimaev put collectively one of the vital one-sided efforts in UFC title battle historical past in opposition to Dricus du Plessis, however a former UFC title challenger discovered a sure facet of the efficiency irritating.
Whereas approaching as a visitor on the Submission Radio platform, Dan Hardy mentioned his ideas on the UFC 319 pay-per-view headliner that noticed Chimaev wrest the middleweight crown from DDP after they fought in Chicago.
Whereas citing the numbers behind the dominant efficiency that ‘Borz’ had over the weekend, but in addition indicating a facet of the in-cage effort from Chimaev that he wasn’t as eager on, Dan Hardy mentioned,
“Simply rapidly need to convey up the stats as effectively earlier than you go, which is what, 567 strikes from Khamzat, 37 of them important, 21 minutes and 40 seconds management time, 70% takedowns. What are we taking a look at right here? That is like when a child performs the UFC recreation or one thing, proper?”
“Like, that is like insane stuff. It was, I imply, it was overwhelming dominance, however it was simply… it was irritating that it was simply, it wasn’t, there was not the intention to complete like there was earlier than.”
Khamzat Chimaev breaks document at UFC 319, earlier document holder feedback
Khamzat Chimaev broke a striking-based document in opposition to Dricus du Plessis and Chael Sonnen, who held the document beforehand, and has provided up his ideas on being usurped by the 31-year-old. Chimaev related on the South African combatant with over 5 hundred strikes connecting all through the bout.
This eclipsed Sonne’s prior document of over 300 strikes, which have been notched in his prior middleweight title bid in opposition to Anderson Silva years again.
When the multi-division UFC title challenger addressed Chimaev breaking his document over the weekend on his personal YouTube channel, Sonnen acknowledged [via MMA News],
“There was 537 strikes landed by Chimaev. Let me put that in perspective as a result of I used to have the document. I had the document, and I crushed the document to win it, and I hit 311. 311 was the document. I do know that for positive as a result of I had it. He had 527 in opposition to 49 strikes.”
“So it was 10-to-1, Chimaev. If you see one thing that extremely dominant, and there was all types of judges throwing up 10-8 rounds tonight, I imply, this was one of the vital lopsided victories in historical past for a world championship.”
