Khamzat Chimaev Details Struggles Finding Fight: ‘Every Week I Have New Opponent’

Khamzat Chimaev is the man nobody in the UFC wants to face.

The 28-year-old Allstars Training Center representative is ready to return to the Octagon, but finding a willing opponent has been something of a challenge.

“They gave me four different countries, four different opponents,” Chimaev recently said on his video blog. “Nobody wants to fight.

“I’m gonna fight somebody, I don’t know who. They change opponents all the time. Every week I have new opponent, but nobody wants to fight … I’m always ready.”

Though he doesn’t have a dance partner at this point in time, Chimaev seems hopeful that his next Octagon appearance will come in March. UFC 285 is slated for March 4, while UFC 286 is scheduled for March 18.

“We’ll see what’s gonna happen now. I think we’ll be, hope so, March but I don’t know who,” he said.

Chimaev last appeared at UFC 279 this past September, where he dispatched Kevin Holland via first-round submission in a 180-pound catchweight bout. “Borz” is 12-0 as a professional, with six triumphs coming in UFC competition. He has fought at both welterweight and middleweight during his promotional tenure and seems willing to compete at either weight class.

“It doesn’t matter. Just need some opponent …I am the next for the title, so who are these guys going to fight,” Chimaev said.


 “[UFC middleweight champ] Alex Pereira, he has (a 7-1) record. He lost. I never lost in my life, and he lost against a s—t guy. The guy isn’t in the UFC, as well. UFC doesn’t want it. The guy don’t want it. What am I going to do? I just want to fight. Give me somebody. If the guys run away from me, just give me somebody. I’m ready.”