{"id":399225,"date":"2021-11-10T10:49:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T18:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=399225"},"modified":"2021-11-10T10:49:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T18:49:48","slug":"belal-muhammad-open-to-fighting-khamzat-chimaev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/belal-muhammad-open-to-fighting-khamzat-chimaev\/","title":{"rendered":"Belal Muhammad open to fighting Khamzat Chimaev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight contender Belal Muhammad says he is open to fighting Khamzat Chimaev, who he says has impressed him during his UFC run.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad is currently the No. 9 ranked welterweight in the UFC, and one spot below him at No. 10 is Chimaev, who has taken the UFC by storm through his first four fights in the promotion. Chimaev smashed three foes on Fight Island last year and then, after taking a year off due to health issues stemming from COVID-19, he returned at UFC 267 last month and he smashed Li Jingliang in his return to the sport. It was a phenomenal victory by Chimaev and it got everyone connected to the sport talking about him, including his fellow divisional rivals such as Muhammad, who noticed what Chimaev did.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2021\/11\/10\/22771551\/belal-muhammad-impressed-by-khamzat-chimaev-but-not-afraid-to-fight-the-new-ufc-boogeyman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting.com<\/a> in a recent interview, Muhammad explained why he has been so impressed with Chimaev so far in his UFC career. Muhammad believes that, as far as a styles clash go, he makes a really good matchup for Chimaev, and he believes that he would give him a tougher fight than anyone else.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Xe8cLV\">\u201cHe\u2019s looked so dominant, and we\u2019ve only seen a small picture of him. Now he\u2019s adding the talking while fighting, the Khabib (Nurmagomedov) style to it. It\u2019s exciting for fans and fans that don\u2019t really understand MMA and just think that he\u2019s going to walk through everybody and kill everybody just because of how easily he\u2019s winning,&#8221; Muhammad said. \u201cBut I think stylistically, our styles match up very well, and maybe it\u2019s not one of those things where I think I\u2019m going to go in there and dominate him, but I think I will definitely give him a bigger fight than anyone he\u2019s ever fought before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to see the UFC book <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/video-sean-strickland-extends-disturbing-offer-to-belal-muhammad-i-want-to-do-some-weird-sht-to-you-man\/\">Belal Muhammad<\/a> against Khamzat Chimaev?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight contender Belal Muhammad says he is open to fighting Khamzat Chimaev, who he says has impressed him during his UFC run. Muhammad is currently the No. 9 ranked welterweight in the UFC, and one spot below him at No. 10 is Chimaev, who has taken the UFC by storm through his first four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":378578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[16408,81075,39610],"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>Belal Muhammad open to fighting Khamzat Chimaev | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC welterweight contender Belal Muhammad says he is open to fighting Khamzat Chimaev, who he says has impressed him during his UFC run.\" \/>\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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