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BJJ News — Khamzat Chimaev

Khamzat Chimaev Spent This Week Explaining Why Jiu-Jitsu Is the Foundation of MMA Success — His Corner Cost Him the UFC Title Doing Exactly That

Khamzat Chimaev Spent This Week Explaining Why Jiu-Jitsu Is the Foundation of MMA Success — His Corner Cost Him the UFC Title Doing Exactly That

Jun 07, 2026 · competition-results, corner-stoppage
There is a specific kind of painful irony that only combat sports can produce. Not theatrical irony.
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Khamzat Chimaev's Wrestling Return Hit a Pothole — How a Knee Injury Derailed RAF 10 vs Danis

Khamzat Chimaev's Wrestling Return Hit a Pothole — How a Knee Injury Derailed RAF 10 vs Danis

Jun 03, 2026 · athlete-news, colby-covington
Khamzat Chimaev's return to wrestling just took a hard hit. The Chechen-Swedish striker was supposed to headline RAF 10 against Dillon Danis in what looked like a redemption narrative — a UFC veteran pivoting back to his roots after years chasing the welterweight title.
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Chimaev Lost His Title Saturday and Still Had to Honor His Wrestling Match Three Weeks Later

Chimaev Lost His Title Saturday and Still Had to Honor His Wrestling Match Three Weeks Later

Jun 03, 2026 · competition-results, khamzat-chimaev
Khamzat Chimaev walked into the Prudential Center as a 13-0 UFC middleweight champion carrying something most title challengers don't: a pre-existing wrestling commitment he'd signed six weeks earlier. When he walked out that Saturday night—May 15, to be exact—as a 13-1 former champion with a split-
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Joe Rogan Said Chimaev Has Been Winning Because He Hasn't Wrestled Anyone — Burns And Usman Were The Real Tests

Joe Rogan Said Chimaev Has Been Winning Because He Hasn't Wrestled Anyone — Burns And Usman Were The Real Tests

Jun 02, 2026 · competition-results, gilbert-burns
Joe Rogan spent part of episode 2487 of his podcast, released April 22 with Action Bronson, explaining that Khamzat Chimaev was, in fact, a freak. Then he spent the rest of it explaining why we didn't actually know how big a freak yet.
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Khamzat Chimaev's $200K Wrestling Bounty Met Reality—And Lost

Khamzat Chimaev's $200K Wrestling Bounty Met Reality—And Lost

Jun 02, 2026 · arman-tsarukyan, bo-nickal
Khamzat Chimaev made headlines that seemed to sum up everything wrong and right about the crossover fever gripping combat sports. On April 18, the reigning UFC middleweight champion (15-0) signed with Real American Freestyle, posted a $200,000 bounty for any Olympic wrestling champion willing to spa
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Khamzat Chimaev Lost His Middleweight Belt and Decided Light Heavyweight Was the Answer

Khamzat Chimaev Lost His Middleweight Belt and Decided Light Heavyweight Was the Answer

Jun 02, 2026 · competition-results, khamzat-chimaev
Khamzat Chimaev experienced something he hadn't tasted before in his professional career: a loss. And not just any loss—a split decision defeat to Sean Strickland, a 4-to-1 underdog, at UFC 328 in Newark.
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Strickland's 76% Takedown Defense vs Chimaev's 55% Takedown Success — What The UFC 328 Math Actually Showed

Strickland's 76% Takedown Defense vs Chimaev's 55% Takedown Success — What The UFC 328 Math Actually Showed

Jun 01, 2026 · grappling, khamzat-chimaev
When UFC 328 went down at the Prudential Center in Newark on May 9, the betting line told one story while the grappling stats told another. Sean Strickland was a +310 underdog at FanDuel heading in.
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Joe Rogan Started Questioning the UFC — Fighter Pay, Chimaev's Timeline, and a Crack in the Alliance

Joe Rogan Started Questioning the UFC — Fighter Pay, Chimaev's Timeline, and a Crack in the Alliance

Jun 01, 2026 · athlete-news, competition-results
Back in late May 2026, something shifted in Joe Rogan's relationship with the UFC. Not in a way that suggested imminent rupture or a permanent split from the organization that's defined his media presence for two decades.
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