Joe Rogan has explained how to effectively neutralize Khamzat Chimaev’s wrestling and perhaps the only way to stop the Chechen-born Emirati.
Chimaev became the UFC middleweight kingpin by dethroning Dricus du Plessis at UFC 319. ‘Borz’ had a control time of 21 minutes and 40 seconds against du Plessis. He scored 12 takedowns and landed 529 strikes, winning every single round.
Recently, on The Joe Rogan Experience, the longtime UFC commentator lauded Chimaev’s wrestling pedigree and said that only an Olympic-calibre wrestler can stop him:
“The thing is, there are these gaps in wrestling, these gaps in grappling.