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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA – APRIL 09: Khamzat Chimaev of Russia reacts after his three round battle against Gilbert Burns of Brazil in their welterweight fight during the UFC 273 event at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on April 09, 2022 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)

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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA – APRIL 09: Khamzat Chimaev of Russia reacts after his three round battle against Gilbert Burns of Brazil in their welterweight fight during the UFC 273 event at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on April 09, 2022 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)
Khamzat Chimaev is a force to reckon with in the UFC welterweight division. The Chechen fighter is currently ranked #3 and fans, have been waiting to see more of his performances in the cage, but ‘Borz’ has not answered to the many callouts. His coach Michael Andreas has now opened up on why the 28-year-old has not responded to fighters who want a fight with him.
Andres also mentioned that Chimaev will stay away from fighting till he is done with Ramadan, as the fighter himself mentioned in the past. Chimaev has fought twice in 2022 and just once in 2021.
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Michael Andreas was talking to Denis Shkuratov and Kacper Rosolowski on their YouTube show, Submission Radio. The YouTube channel has 220k subscribers. The trio talked about UFC 285 and the much-anticipated rematch between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira at UFC 287 following their discussion about Chimaev.
Khamzat Chimaev won’t respond to every callout
Michael Andreas gave a very simple explanation of why the Chechen fighter had no need to respond to every call out he got. Talking to Shkuratov, Andreas said, “everyone’s calling out the Khamzat. I know he’s probably the money fight now. Like so we don’t take a lot of that serious like no we don’t take anything of that serious to be honest with you. Because if the top dogs took all the call out seriously, then he said they’ll be like it has to make sense.”
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Further speaking on the same subject, he said, “It’s not. He has to make sense the guy every time you fight you only have a certain amount of fights for you in your whole lifetime. So make them count.”

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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – SEPTEMBER 10: Khamzat Chimaev of Russia has his hands wrapped prior to his fight during the UFC 279 event at T-Mobile Arena on September 10, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)
Andreas also talked about the strategy that the Allstar Training Center representative would go ahead with, Andreas said that he would like to take fights that take him ahead in his career and not get stagnant. He added, “with all respect to everyone, it’s just that we need to things need to make sense. They don’t have to prove we’re the toughest, the biggest, and the strongest. You have to win our fights and that’s that’s the only thing we’ve got to do, and that’s what we’re doing.”
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