Khamzat Chimaev once promised to “kill everybody” in the welterweight division. His next target is Nate Diaz, a UFC veteran and legend of the sport up to the final fight of his UFC contract. Khamzat plans to eat Diaz “for breakfast”, as he revealed on The MMA Hour. That’s if Nate Diaz even shows up, which Khamzat doubts.
“I still don’t believe that guy’s going to come and show up. That skinny boy. We will see what’s happening. I’m just waiting for the 10th of September – it doesn’t matter who. If he wants to fight [185 pounds], then we can do that… just show up. I can fight [at 185 or 205 pounds], it doesn’t matter.
Chimaev Promises To Eat “Gangster” Diaz “For Breakfast”
For me, it doesn’t actually matter. If they give me Kamaru Usman, I will do the same thing. For me, it doesn’t matter. The guy just fights and fights. He’s still dangerous. He fights to the last second, and I’m happy he’s fighting with me.
He’s one of the legends, like everyone saying, ‘gangster, gangster.’ I’m going to show who’s the gangster. Like I said before, we’re from Chechnya, we grow up [with] the war, and we eat the gangsters for breakfast.”
Despite the trash talk, Chimaev actually grew up watching Nate Diaz on TV, and even admired Stockton’s favorite son.
“I was in school when he was fighting in the UFC. It’s amazing to fight that guy, and I like him because for me UFC, when I was young, it was like the movies. Like, I’m not going to get there, I’m just going to see it.
Now, I fight with the guys that I was watching. American guys. From Chechnya, I watched them. Now, I fight with them.” The plan? “Smash his face”.
“I just go in and smash his face. If we do striking, I knock him out, and if we go down, I submit him or smash his face, make him tap. We’ll see, whatever, for me it doesn’t matter. I don’t have some game plan and that s***.
I don’t ask my coaches, I never talk about what I’m going to do in the fight. I just train what my coach said in my training. When we spar, if he says, ‘take him down,’ I take him down, if he says, ‘jab, move,’ I do these things – I listen to him.”
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