Khamzat Chimaev is not simply content to hold the UFC’s 185-pound belt and also desires the crown held by Alex Pereira. The UFC middleweight champion mentioned this during a recent conversation with Aslanbek Badaev. Chimaev is an undefeated professional MMA fighter, and his win in capturing the strap against Dricus du Plessis in August saw ‘Borz’ author one of the most dominant championship wins in mixed martial arts history at UFC 319.
Entering that rarefied air of two-division UFC champions throughout history is such a compelling thing for so many fighters which was expressed by the current middleweight kingpin, as Chimaev said,
“If you ask me, of course, I would love to fight for the second belt.