{"id":2381,"date":"2023-10-23T09:35:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T08:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2023-10-23T23:55:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T22:55:06","slug":"paulo-costa-harshly-criticizes-khamzat-chimaev-for-his-performance-against-kamaru-usman-at-ufc-294","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/paulo-costa-harshly-criticizes-khamzat-chimaev-for-his-performance-against-kamaru-usman-at-ufc-294\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulo Costa harshly criticizes Khamzat Chimaev for his performance against Kamaru Usman at UFC 294"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paulo Costa was not impressed with Khamzat Chimaev&#8217;s performance against Kamaru Usman at UFC 294.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During UFC 294, Khamzat Chimaev and Kamaru Usman faced off in a short notice fight at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. Khamzat was originally scheduled to face Paulo Costa, but the latter had a serious elbow infection. Usman accepted the fight with 9 days of preparation. Despite an ultra dominant 1st round for Chimaev, \u2018The Nigerian Nightmare\u2019 made things competitive in the next 2 rounds. \u2018Borz\u2019 ultimately won the fight by majority decision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Paulo Costa defeats Khamzat Chimaev<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the fight, Paulo Costa, who was present at the event, was interviewed by Mike Bohn of MMA Junkie. The Brazilian said he found nothing special in the exit of his rival Khamzat.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paulo Costa Trashes Khamzat Chimaev&#039;s &#039;Horrible&#039; UFC 294 Win, Reacts to Fan Altercation in Crowd\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ri79KprU96A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t good. The fight was horrible. Khamzat Chimaev looks horrible. Three horrible rounds. He fought a welterweight in short notice, the guy doesn&#8217;t even fight at middleweight. Usman is a true welterweight. Khamzat tried to finish him in the 1st round, but he couldn&#8217;t do it. Then he got taken out. Then I really believe Usman beat him for the next two rounds. What can I say about this, brother? He looked horrible. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Costa: \u201cI got a little sad because I told myself that I could have finished this bastard easily. It&#8217;s easy money. He is an immature fighter. He put all his energy into the 1st round. If he can&#8217;t finish the guy, he&#8217;s finished. I truly believe that if Usman had a few more weeks of training, two more weeks in his fight camp, he could have beaten him. In fact, I believe he at least got a draw. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_63357\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NDomEgEHnSc?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Dana White announced before the fight, Khamzat Chimaev is set to face Sean Strickland for a shot at the middleweight title in his next appearance in the octagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulo Costa was not impressed with Khamzat Chimaev&#8217;s performance against Kamaru Usman at UFC 294. During UFC 294, Khamzat Chimaev and Kamaru Usman faced off in a short notice fight at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. Khamzat was originally scheduled to face Paulo Costa, but the latter had a serious elbow infection. Usman accepted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news","8":"category-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}