The veterinarian of the UFC admits that the victory of the title of Khamzat Chimaev was “boring” but dominant: “It’s the game we play”

Khamzat Chimaev won the average weight championship at the UFC 319, achieving one of the most dominant performances in the history of the championship against Dricus du Plessis. In fact, Chimaev was so dominant in the victory that the Chicago crowd has hooked while Chimaev shot down several times from the Plessis and patiently worked on strikes while dominating the position.

From the Plessis was never really in the fight until a desperate load at the end of the last round. Chimaev finished the fight with an advantage of 529 to 45 in strikes landed and had a little less than 22 minutes of control time on the ground, but that was not translated as the most pleasant vision experience for many observers.

Among those who call the performance of “boring” Chimaev is the UFC veteran, Matt Brown, although Brown was not ready to throw Chimaev for having used his fight for a dominant effect.

“It was boring,” said Brown on the podcast “The Fighter vs the Writer”. “”[Georges St-Pierre] Had a lot of boring fights. But we are not really talking about the way the GSP was boring, isn’t it? We are talking about his domination. This is the game we play. You can’t take anything from Khamzat for what it has done. It’s cool watch it develop.

“I think we see a lot of these wrestlers entering MMA … We see wrestlers think that they are attackers. I think Khamzat has gone through this phase a little with [Gilbert] Burn and [Kamaru] Usman, and then he said to me: “Wait a minute, I’m the best wrestler here, what am I doing?” And returned there. He obtained a championship. “”

Brown was known as one of the most exciting fighters on the UFC list for years, but exciting styles are not always for careers at the championship level, and Brown has never challenged for a title in the octagon.

While Brown understands Chimaev’s performance criticism and thinks that Chimaev could have done more to work for a finish, he also granted credit to the intelligent approach to the new champion in the fight.

“We cannot blame him,” said Brown. “It is so easy to say when we sat here. He is the one who feels things, and it is he who feeling DDP. Look, DDP is a hard son of whore. He is not a guy with whom you want to take a lot of risks. Or four laps in a world championship fight.

“But at the same time, I receive criticisms because we say that it is this type. He comes out in a way and does just what he must win, that is what you are supposed to do. I would not say an argument, but I explained it somehow to some of the people around [saying] “It’s boring. I’m like, guys, it’s a price fight, and he’s going to win the award. It is its object of this fight is to win the award. Do not make yourself happy because you want to see blood. “”