{"id":366032,"date":"2020-10-29T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=366032"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:01:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:01:49","slug":"chris-weidman-explains-why-ufc-passed-on-booking-the-khamzat-chimaev-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/chris-weidman-explains-why-ufc-passed-on-booking-the-khamzat-chimaev-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Weidman explains why UFC passed on booking the Khamzat Chimaev fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight contender Chris Weidman explained why the UFC passed on booking him in the fight against top prospect Khamzat Chimaev.<\/p>\n<p>Weidman broke his long losing skid with a unanimous decision win over Omari Akhmedov in his last outing. Since then, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/chris-weidman-says-derek-brunson-turned-him-down-eyes-january-showdown-with-paulo-costa\/\">Weidman has been calling for some of the top dogs in the middleweight division such as Derek Brunson and Paulo Costa.<\/a> Another fighter who Weidman mentioned as a potential opponent in Chimaev. Most fighters didn&#8217;t seem to be interested in being matched up with the Swede, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/chris-weidman-offers-to-humble-khamzat-chimaev-in-january\/\">but Weidman was out there calling for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the UFC decided to go in another direction and the matchmakers booked Chimaev against Leon Edwards, the No. 3 welterweight contender, instead. The two will now lock horns in the five-round main event of a UFC Fight Night card on December 19. Weidman, meanwhile, continues to be in search of his next opponent in the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AQUhPyLyQ_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submission Radio<\/a>, Weidman explained why the UFC decided to pass on booking him against Chimaev and go with Edwards instead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They offered me Chimaev. I said yes. Then I started getting really excited about it, and then I said, \u2018Well, so I\u2019ve got a little bit of a rib injury right now \u2013 a cartilage rib injury.\u2019 And if you\u2019re anybody who\u2019s had that, it\u2019s just a pain in the ass. You\u2019ve got to be really careful with not re-injuring it or bothering it. So I\u2019ve kind of got to work around that right now. So I told them, \u2018I\u2019m down to fight whoever at mid-January, but I really want that Chimaev fight,\u2019 just because of everyone acting as if everyone is scared of him and all that. And to me, I always want to fight the best guys. And so if everybody thinks he\u2019s that good, let\u2019s see it,&#8221; Weidman said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/10\/chris-weidman-took-khamzat-chimaev-fight-rib-injury-prevented-it-ufc-leon-edwards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMAjunkie.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a hard time imagining anybody throwing me around. In any of my losses, it wasn\u2019t like a dominant win. It was holy crap, out of nowhere, and fights that I was winning, other than my (Dominick) Reyes fight. And so I just have a hard time seeing anybody manhandling me and throwing me around. I just can\u2019t imagine that happening. I would love to see that if that\u2019s what everybody thinks that he could do. So that kind of excited me. But next thing I know, he\u2019s fighting the No. 3 guy at welterweight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Chris Weidman has what it takes to beat Khamzat Chimaev?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight contender Chris Weidman explained why the UFC passed on booking him in the fight against top prospect Khamzat Chimaev. Weidman broke his long losing skid with a unanimous decision win over Omari Akhmedov in his last outing. Since then, Weidman has been calling for some of the top dogs in the middleweight division [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54474,"featured_media":316139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10095,81075,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chris Weidman explains why UFC passed on booking the Khamzat Chimaev fight | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC middleweight contender Chris Weidman explained why the UFC passed on booking him in the fight against top prospect Khamzat Chimaev.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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