{"id":371023,"date":"2020-12-14T08:36:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=371023"},"modified":"2020-12-14T08:36:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:36:21","slug":"stephen-thompson-khamzat-chimaevs-promotional-push-is-a-slap-in-the-face-to-everybody-whos-worked-their-butts-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/stephen-thompson-khamzat-chimaevs-promotional-push-is-a-slap-in-the-face-to-everybody-whos-worked-their-butts-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Thompson: Khamzat Chimaev&#8217;s promotional push is &#8220;a slap in the face to everybody who\u2019s worked their butts off\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Thompson says the push Khamzat Chimaev is getting from the UFC is &#8220;&#8221;a slap in the face to everybody who\u2019s worked their butts off&#8221; in the promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Chimaev was one of the breakout stars of 2020 for the UFC, rattling off stoppage wins over John Philips, Rhys McKee and Gerald Meerschaert in the span of a few months. Despite the fact that he&#8217;s yet to be beat a ranked opponent, and that his lone welterweight win came against McKee, who is now 0-2 in the division, Chimaev has been given a fight with No. 3-ranked welterweight contender Leon Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, who has been fighting top-ranked welterweights for years, and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/stephen-thompson-makes-first-twitter-call-out-ever-to-leon-edwards\/\">previously angled for a fight with Edwards to no avail<\/a>, feels that&#8217;s a &#8220;slap in the face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"XFwiVE\">\u201cI think he was ranked No. 15, which doesn\u2019t make sense to me,\u201d Thompson told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/12\/ufc-stephen-thompson-bothered-by-khamzat-chimaev-push\">MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cI know he\u2019s had one fight in the welterweight division, and his opponent (McKee) is 0-2 right now and normally a lightweight, a 155er, so it just doesn\u2019t make sense how this guy can jump past everybody who\u2019s worked their behinds off to get to where they\u2019re at, and now he\u2019s ranked No. 15 fighting the No. 3 guy, I believe. It\u2019s just ridiculous to me.<\/p>\n<p id=\"62lW8x\">\u201cI had to fight through murderer\u2019s row to get to where I\u2019m at and so did Leon Edwards,&#8221; Thompson added. &#8220;He was on a (eight-fight) winning streak to get to where he\u2019s at. I had to fight a slew of guys, I mean tough opponents. Robert Whittaker,\u00a0Jake Ellenberger, Rory McDonald,\u00a0Johny Hendricks\u00a0to get to where I\u2019m at, and then this guy just jumps past everybody. I think it\u2019s a slap in the face to everybody who\u2019s worked their butts off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson believes Chimaev will continue to benefit from favorable matchmaking if he defeats Edwards when they fight in January, and that the Chechen-born Swede could even be given a title shot in victory.<\/p>\n<p id=\"extcG6\">\u201cGuaranteed he\u2019s probably gonna get a title shot if he beats Leon Edwards, and I kinda called this,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cI was wondering why they were pushing Khamzat so hard, and I was like watch Khabib [Nurmagomedov] retire, because they\u2019re from the same neck of the woods, they got to please that market, so it kinda makes sense why they\u2019re pushing him so hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Thompson is widely known as one of the nicest, classiest fighters in MMA, which gives his complaints about Khamzat Chimaev&#8217;s preferential treatment some extra weight. 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