News on UFC 294 are moving fast as Dana White scrambled as best he could in order to deliver what the fans wanted. Paulo Costa kept on saying he wasn’t going to drop out of the fight despite having gone through a surgery on his right elbow. But Dana White and the UFC’s medical staff needed to run some tests on that elbow and the final verdict was that Costa is not fit to fight. If White allowed him to get in the octagon, this fight would’ve been too one-sided on Khamzat Chimaev’s favor. As fast as possible, White and his team got to work searching for a possible opponent and landed on the name that absolutely everybody wanted to fight Khamzat. That man is none other than No. 1 Welterweight in the world, Kamaru Usman.
Gilbert Burns hints Kamaru Usman as Khamzat Chimaev’s rival
Is Kamaru Usman moving up to Middleweight?
The immediate question her is at which weight class are these two studs fighting? Khamzat Chimaev has been preparing for a fight at Middleweight, he has always been a little too heavy for Welterweight anyway. Since he didn’t make weight when he was about to fight Nate Diaz, Dana White adviced him to move up to Middleweight and Khamzat Chimaev did what he was told. Paulo Costa would’ve been his first Middleweight opponent but the elbow disaster happened. Kamaru Usman will definitely be at a disadvantage, especially because he will only have 10 days to move up to that weight class and it won’t be pure muscle with the peoper amount of time or training.
But this is the fighting game and Kamaru Usman has never bowed down from a challenge, he has even fought with serious hip injuries that barely allow him to walk before. All Kamaru Usman cares about is fighting Khamzat at any weight class he can. Getting to redeem himself against arguably the scariest fighter in the UFC right now is definitely what Kamaru Usman had been looking for. Dana White just made the announcement official and he seemed just as thrilled about it as we all are. Abu Dhabi suddenly turned into the most stacked fighting card the UFC has produced in 2023 thus far. The main event will have the rematch between Islam Makhachev and Alexander Volkanovski. For the co-main event, we have Usman vs Khamzat. Be there or be square for October 21.
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