Things are heating up ahead of Khamzat Chimaev’s first headlining appearance in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
On Monday, Chimaev was involved in an altercation with former middleweight title challenger Paulo Costa at the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas. Costa, who was training with Jake Shields at the facility, posted a reaction and video of the incident on his YouTube channel. Shields is a training partner of Nate Diaz, who is Chimaev’s opponent in the UFC 2799 main event.
“I met Chimaev there, and man, he was scared,” Costa said on his YouTube channel.