Chimaev will fight in middleweight before the end of the year

Top UFC welterweight Khamzat Chimaev he intends to hold his next performance before the end of this year in the middle division. This is reported by ESPN journalist Brett Okamoto with a link to the Swede coach Andreas Michael.

“This morning I spoke with Khamzat Chimaev’s trainer Andreas Michael and, according to him, they will hold their next performance in middleweight at the end of the year.

Michael wanted to emphasize that stopping the weight race was his decision on the advice of the doctors. She needed to be stopped. He described that Khamzat vomited and had convulsions, and to complete the weight cut he needed to climb into the hot bath again, ”wrote Okamoto on Twitter.

Recall that on September 11 at UFC 279 in Las Vegas, Chimaev defeated Kevin Holland by choke in the first round.