Khamzat Chimaev needed to work for it, however he did what he wanted to do on Saturday at UFC 294 — he defeated Kamaru Usman. Heading in, Dana White stated that the winner would get a title shot in opposition to Sean Strickland, however was the efficiency from Chimaev sufficient to get him his first world championship alternative?
On an all-new version of Heck of a Morning, MMA Preventing’s Mike Heck makes an attempt to reply that query, why Chimaev ought to get extra credit score than he’s getting for the victory, and the place Usman goes from this previous weekend. Moreover, listener matters embody Islam Makhachev’s large end of Alexander Volkanovski in the principle occasion, if Charles Oliveira or Justin Gaethje must be subsequent, the physician concerned in two bizarre endings to UFC 294 bouts, Ikram Aliskerov’s future at 185 kilos, and way more.
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