UFC 319 ended with a seismic shift in MMA—Khamzat Chimaev dismantled Dricus Du Plessis and became the new middleweight champion.
Peter Klein, with 15+ years breaking down UFC fights across multiple platforms, gives a detailed breakdown on:
🥋 Chimaev's domination: Elite-level wrestling, near-total control, 12 takedowns, and 21 minutes of top control
What’s next for Du Plessis? His title reign ends with no rematch calls—what must he do to climb back?
Breakout performances: Lerone Murphy’s spinning back-elbow KO puts him among featherweight contenders; Aaron Pico’s debut struggles; MVP’s precise striking showcased his counter-punching excellence.
Upset of the night: Tim Elliott taps Kai Asakura with brilliant pressure and a slick guillotine—veteran savvy at its finest.
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Peter Klein, with 15+ years breaking down UFC fights across multiple platforms, gives a detailed breakdown on:
🥋 Chimaev's domination: Elite-level wrestling, near-total control, 12 takedowns, and 21 minutes of top control
What’s next for Du Plessis? His title reign ends with no rematch calls—what must he do to climb back?
Breakout performances: Lerone Murphy’s spinning back-elbow KO puts him among featherweight contenders; Aaron Pico’s debut struggles; MVP’s precise striking showcased his counter-punching excellence.
Upset of the night: Tim Elliott taps Kai Asakura with brilliant pressure and a slick guillotine—veteran savvy at its finest.
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00:00There is a new champion in the middleweight division and he looks dominant as ever. Hamzat
00:05Chemayev with one of the most dominant performances in the history of title fights in the UFC. So what
00:11does it mean for him? What does it mean for Drikas 2 plus C? Plus what else did we see on what ended
00:16up being a pretty wild main card at UFC 319? Let's break it all down.
00:30UFC 319 is in the books and it was one for the record books. We had a couple of knockouts that
00:36will go down in infamy based on their execution and hilarious timing. Plus a couple interesting
00:45fights for some up-and-comers moving their way through the Ultimate Fighting Championship and a
00:50couple disappointing losses as well. But we begin with one of the most dominant performances you will
00:55see in any fight ever but certainly in a title fight and certainly by the challenger as Hamzat
01:04Chemayev is the new middleweight champ. We said in the breakdown on Friday that the most likely outcome
01:10from this fight was going to be Hamzat comes in he gets a powerbomb and then whatever limb happens to
01:17bounce up into his grasp he is going to take it and try to rip it off and that is how this one is
01:23going to to play out. I was kind of right. The thing I was worried about was the gas tank of Hamzat
01:28Chemayev and how is he going to look from minutes 16 to 25 having never been in a five-round main event
01:36before or in a fight that has lasted more than 15 minutes and the ones where he went 15 minutes
01:41looked a little concerning. What I didn't take into account is that powerbomb thing from how I thought
01:48he was going to win was just going to happen over and over and over again and he was going to face
01:53about that much resistance from Drikas Duplessis in this. This was dominance in every sense of the word
02:01absolute dominance absolute control by Hamzat Chemayev. Like I said before this is one of the most
02:09impressive performances I have seen from a challenger in a really long time. Daniel Cormier brought it up.
02:15It was basically 20 to 30 seconds into every round shot takedown down and it's I mean we can
02:21talk about the defense of Drikas Duplessis here in a second but it is a lightning quick shot and it's
02:28relentless after it right like what whether he's trying to turn the corner on you whether you're
02:33slipping away with a leg and he's just sticking to you it is just like a dog on a bone right that you
02:38just can't get this guy off and then once he gets down once he gets you down on the mat complete
02:44control. I don't know if I've seen a fight where a dude gets three mounted crucifixes in one fight
02:53that's that's a new one for me. Now generally if you're in that spot that's all she wrote but to be
03:01able to get that thrice is just insane so the control everywhere was really really impressive
03:07to me. I do think that you could make a touch of an argument like hey maybe get that guy out if you
03:12are in that much control. I don't know why it took until the third crucifix to start raining hellbows
03:18down on Drikas Duplessis dome but once he started to really land those power shots you kind of got a
03:25sense maybe this thing is over. That wasn't necessarily the case but it was it was just it was so
03:32dominant and just such control. I just I was blown away by what I saw by Hamza Chemaev and there was
03:39a lot of people who were booing in the audience. I wasn't able to watch it live so I don't know what
03:45the reaction was like on on social media. Those fights don't bother me as much like there are some
03:50where it's like the delay and pray and and stuff like that and I get really frustrated by that sort of
03:55thing but this was it was so impressive that he could do that to the champion that I just I couldn't
04:03I was in awe of what I was seeing. I was more impressed than bored by the wrestling and the
04:08control of Hamza and he was still doing enough the whole time to keep you kind of captivated in what he
04:13was doing on the offensive side and to see if he could get a finish and I think that the difference
04:19in grappling ability and then there being a bit of a difference in striking advantage for Drickus
04:26Duplessis made it a bit of a tricky situation for I think it was Mark uh Mark Goddard who had the
04:31the refereeing duties on that um because if you stand him up you are now at the very least making this
04:39a 50-50 fight and taking a guy out of a dominant position that in theory he worked hard for but if
04:45nothing else he has worked hard to maintain and taking him out of that that bugs me and I hated
04:52when they did it in the fourth round but you can understand it because it's just rinse repeat rinse
04:55repeat rinse repeat and so by the time you're getting to the fourth round and he's in side
04:59control for the fourth time it doesn't seem like the dominant position that it was anymore now you need
05:04to start to do things from that so I didn't have any issues with entertainment factor or anything like
05:10that this was just a dominant fighter beating a champion in that way for Drickus Duplessis it is
05:18obviously back to the drawing board um after after a run like that where he wins the championship
05:24and then beats the second best middleweight of all time and then defends it again against the guy he
05:33took the belt from generally when you have had three successful championship fights in a row you're
05:39going to get an immediate rematch um if you lose the championship there ain't a soul that maybe Hamzat
05:46would like it again but aside from that there ain't a soul who is saying hey we need to run this fight
05:51back let's do that again no one is saying that this was um about again if it's complete dominance on
05:59side this is as beat up as I have seen a champion get in a really long long long time um this just
06:07doesn't happen to guys like this so again thanks for the great title reign interesting fighter a guy
06:15who I I do appreciate um finally kind of came to appreciate the at least talent that this guy has I
06:21don't know if I'd host a podcast with the guy but um you appreciate the talent that he has but he's
06:25gonna need a couple of big fights to erase this from people's memories and this was the type of
06:30ass kicking that makes you wonder what is he going to be like after this not that he took otherworldly
06:36amounts of damage or anything like that because that wasn't the case but it was just it was so
06:41controlling it was 25 men almost 25 straight minutes of getting taken down and held down there
06:48and just getting beaten up and nothing you can do is working like that not to be glib or anything
06:53that changes a guy when you think you are the best in the world and then you have nothing in
07:00response I I just think that that is like that has to mess with you mentally I don't care that he
07:06came back to his corner three times smiling that has to mess with you and the the old the old brain
07:11hole there so I I need to see how he responds and I think he's gonna need a couple wins now to erase
07:17this one from people's memories to get him in there for um another title opportunity tactically
07:24as far as that goes the one thing I didn't like is that and again I wouldn't be able to do it
07:30differently it's terrifying to have that human when he does that the little crouch and then the grin at
07:35you um before the fight like that's a terrifying guy to then come and attack your legs immediately on
07:40a takedown and then he's one of the best in the world at it like that that's hard but
07:44he never really tried to defend the takedowns with like takedown defense you know and again we
07:52shouldn't be expecting a conventional defense from a guy who has exactly zero percent conventional
07:57offense you would expect him to have it a little bit differently and he kind of abandoned all technique
08:03and instead went for chaos instead of like let's try to like sprawl deal with the head do all those
08:09things no it's let me just try to like kind of run and turn this into a while and then I'll try to
08:14reverse it and flip you over and now I got a choke and oh man now you're kind of choking me I should
08:18let that go like it was just he was trying to he was trying to defend it by turning it into the cartoon
08:25thing with the arms and legs coming out of it and just making it this wild whatever
08:30and in the end Hamzat was just calm composed technically brilliant and able to just hold him down
08:36there so didn't love how he handled that had a couple of moments on the feet one day they stood
08:41back up in the fifth round um he tagged Hamzat a couple times and then Chemaev was like yeah I'm good
08:46I'm out of here see ya um in terms of the scorecards I had at 50 43 for Hamzat Chemaev they go 50 44
08:52which that does not seem like enough like I get he wasn't close to finishing this fight but he was in
08:58dominant positions five times in this I know that we don't hand out 10 8s or anything but to me
09:08like in boxing it's clear you get a knockdown you get the 10 8 round right like that that's how that
09:13goes to me it has to be like a threat of a finish has to be there and or extended time in a dominant
09:21position side control mount those are dominant positions and he lived there for 25 he was charging
09:27rent he threw a wonderful barbecue there he lived in dominant positions in five rounds um like I just
09:33I I thought it was I'm I'm not gonna complain because the right guy won obviously and this is
09:40far from the worst judging thing probably even on the show but you can't tell me that what only one of
09:49those rounds was a 10 8 round I just I don't believe that for a second so gonna be interesting to see what
09:54comes to this one but a dominant eye-opening incredible performance for the new middleweight
09:59champion Hamzat Chemaev um I said that uh DDP wasn't someone who I would host a podcast with
10:04um but who would you host a peak a podcast with PK that one coming from Conrad in the twitch chat um
10:11obviously you sir um having uh done that over at uh at game over the whole game over Calgary crew
10:16um absolutely including Adi um in in game over Calgary um version one I think there'd be a lot of
10:23people that it would be fun to host podcasts with I would love to host one with um Adnan we had him
10:29on the the show here um in the early days of Couch Potato still one of the most watched videos we have
10:34is talking with Adnan Virk about uh his time in WWE and stuff but just to be able to bounce around and
10:40all those things I think it would be a whole lot of fun um so that is certainly one of them but I
10:45mean look too many to list um are who I would host a podcast with but uh yes no shout out to the uh
10:51the game over Calgary crew and uh everything they did uh and uh hopefully next year doing
10:56there um let's move now to the co-main event of the evening as Lerone Murphy makes a statement
11:04a lot of talk coming in hey not enough people talking about this guy this is a really talented
11:08fighter this is a really good fighter got to give him some props got to give him an opportunity
11:12he just needs a standout moment well he got it on a spinning back elbow that is going to play
11:19in the Baba O'Reilly video if they still play that at UFC things in perpetuity um Aaron Pico is
11:25coming in Lerone Murphy spins around and puts that right there and curtains just picture perfect
11:35spinning back elbow from Lerone Murphy the only thing keeping him from a title shot was a big moment
11:42against a big opponent and he got both of those in a huge spotlight fight on Saturday night this was
11:48really really stunning that he was able to to do this and I thought one of the things that was
11:54impressive was how well he handled Aaron Pico's pressure because Pico is coming forward and just
11:59looking to bang and you also have to take into account while you are defending this flurry that's
12:04coming at you that it is coming at you from one of the better wrestlers of his time so at any point
12:11while he is putting this barrage of punches on you he can drop down for a single leg and just
12:16suplex you through the mat that's something that could happen to you and so to be able to handle
12:22that pressure while he is coming in there was he got tagged a few times make no mistake about it
12:27like the first couple minutes of this fight he was losing it but once he started to understand like
12:31okay this guy's coming at me I'm gonna have to deal with this he got his composure he landed a couple of
12:36good shots and then he used Pico's aggression against him caught Pico right as he was coming in
12:41spun around hit it perfectly just the absolute perfect way to use a fighter's aggression against
12:46him wonderfully done by Lerone Murphy who showed that he is an excellent excellent striker um it's
12:51tough for Aaron Pico because again I think he's a high level fighter that's a really tough loss to
12:56come back from because Lerone Murphy isn't the biggest name right but he is probably getting a
13:00title shot off of this so that at least helps a little bit um I'll be interested to see how he comes
13:06back from this one now because it was everything was going great for him loved the pressure early
13:11and I even like I wrote down in my notes I like this game plan from him like I wish I had said
13:15let's not mess around too much on the feet maybe like kid's been boxing his whole life but he's a
13:21wrestler um Murphy on the other hand has been striking his whole life and isn't a wrestler so where
13:28do we have a clear advantage here well let's take this thing to the ground but I liked because Murphy is
13:33such a skilled striker no one really pressures him in that way so okay let's see how he handles
13:37this pressure let's go after it and it was working right up until it wasn't and I think there was a
13:42couple of those exchanges that happened where like he is working it early right and it's digging shots
13:46the body and it's great combinations the hand speed is there the technique is there he's obviously a
13:51very talented fighter but once Murphy reared back and answered sorry just punched the mic once Murphy
13:56reared back and answered with a couple good counters on one of those exchanges I think that had to be a
14:01not that you get scared but that has to be okay he's figured this part out like we're not just
14:06going to blitz him and have it like he has he hasn't figured it out figured it out but he knows
14:10what's coming he knows how to handle it maybe we should oh coming in but double leg boom takedown
14:15whatever and again Aaron Pico and his coaches have forgotten more about fighting since I started this
14:20sentence than I will ever know but just that that's something that maybe maybe they stuck to plan a
14:24just a little bit too long when there were some signs that it wasn't working but again
14:29I think the kid's incredibly talented and I'm not gonna knock him too much for this one um but now
14:36it's an interesting fight coming up again for his second opportunity in the octagon but he showed
14:42that the hand speed and the talent as a boxer that make you really excited when you consider the
14:47wrestling background that he has other fights from the card uh Carlos Pratas he was the one who started
14:53the spinning back elbow trend um it was hilarious that like this is a technique that has knocked people
14:58out 10 times in the history of the ultimate fighting championship twice in the span of 15 minutes
15:03on this show uh because just before it happened to Aaron Pico it happened to buy Carlos Pratas to the
15:10dome of um Gary Neal and Pratas is now a player at 170 pounds he's really exciting I think getting that
15:19level of a knockout again on what is one of the bigger cards they've had in a while I think that
15:24is going to put him in line to fight almost any anyone he wants at 170 pounds with a couple of
15:30exceptions I like that he called out Leon Edwards after I thought that was really smart of him to
15:33do that sign me up for that I think that's going to be a really exciting type of a fight and one that
15:39is going to maybe decide another challenger at 170 pounds but uh Pratas just showed some really good
15:46creativity on the feet and a very high level of skill and able to pull that off was just fantastic
15:53so all around excellent performance from him for uh Neil this is tough now because like he showed he
16:00is still good um putting combinations together but this looked like and I'm not like I'm not saying that
16:08the foundational techniques have evolved out of the sport now but this looked like um watching the
16:16evolution of the sport in one video Neil is going out there it is strong fundamentals it's one two we're
16:22landing good shots and oh we're mixing hooks in and we're doing that this is a really good um striking
16:27attack and Pratas is doing spinny shit but he's also it's really hard leg kicks it's really hard
16:32spinning back kicks the head kicks all of these things like he is landing um he also he has the
16:38the straight down the middle punches but he compliments them with some great creativity
16:44and real power in all of those creative strikes that led to a really tough night for Neil and now
16:51it's three losses in his last four and title contention I think is now farther and farther away
17:00for him so back to the drawing board for him uh Michael Vanom Page cruises past Jared Cannoneer
17:04MVP just so skilled and a very interesting fighter at middleweight he looks big for middleweight the
17:11fact that he makes welterweight is insane um but he he looked big at middleweight and anyone he is in
17:17there with is going to be a lot of fun he really he won this fight basically with three punches
17:22Cannoneer has forward pressure body locks getting in on the fence and controlling how the fight's going
17:29and then in the first round it's one counter right over the top that he's able to hook down and just
17:34nailed him right on the chin and just dropped him and then in the second one uh second round again it's
17:40forward pressure controlling up on the fence Cannoneer controlling where this fight is going
17:44and then it's just like a good body shot good shot over the head um sorry good shot over the top
17:49stumbles him back and it just it got him into that flow so basically three punches sealed the fight
17:54for this guy that's how skilled he is um I I love the counter punching that he has his quickness power
18:00his style it's always going to be debated but always going to be entertaining and I think he
18:05showed really good takedown offense battling on the fence um as much as he did keeping the fight
18:10standing getting away from that and getting into advantageous positions for himself excellent work all
18:15the way around brilliantly done um had a height edge on a guy who's like a pretty big guy in
18:20Cannoneer at least I I associate him with being a bigger dude and to be able to have that size
18:24advantage be able to just subtly move your head out of the way be able to counter like it all meshed
18:29together perfectly for him in this one Cannoneer this was tough for him um he's not the most exciting
18:36fighter it's a loss against another high level opponent for him I do think like he is still an
18:43interesting fighter he's an interesting test for anyone who is on the way up to see if they are ready
18:48for that next level he is a gatekeeper at this point in his career um we'll see how much longer
18:52he wants to do it he just didn't do enough with the advantage that he had in the first couple of
18:56rounds he would get it on the takedown get it on the the cage and then just kind of hold it there
19:00and a lot of that is good balance good takedown defense from MVP but he wasn't able to finish it
19:05get the takedown or by the fifth time wasn't able to recognize ah this guy's probably not going down
19:10maybe I should do anything in the clinch and get any kind of damage here or land on these breaks or
19:15something just take advantage of this time where I can actually reach this guy because he was reaching
19:20a lot with his punches leaving him vulnerable to those counter attacks it just wasn't working on
19:24the feet he was able to get it onto the ground but that's because MVP slipped and fell now once he got
19:30it there he held it there and it was really well done but the only time he got this fight to where he
19:35wanted it to be is because the other guy made a mistake and that's not great so um we'll see what
19:41can do from here but a really good performance from MVP and then a tough setback for a guy who
19:46I'm very interested in uh Kai Asakura taps out to Tim Elliott let's start with Elliott first let's
19:51celebrate the victory that's a huge win for Elliott just a cagey vet showing what he could do I don't
19:57think he is a title threat although it's not like there's a long line of challengers right now at
20:02flyweight right so um he's gonna get a real major opportunity here I think he's a fight away
20:07from being a fight away at this point and I mean good for him to be able to to get that
20:13there excellent on the ground was that that was the story of this right like he got picked apart
20:18on the feet a little bit but once he was able to get that takedown it really turned the fight
20:23entirely and it shows what the good and the bad of that unique kind of moving around style and all of
20:32that because in the first round he's just moving and he's shaking and whatever and he's getting hit a
20:37lot by Asakura because nothing really threatening is coming back the other way he's just bobbing
20:42and weaving and doing his thing but he's not threatening at all but once he gets that takedown
20:47which we'll talk about in a second and then in the second round all of a sudden the moving and
20:51shaking because he has the momentum now it's unpredictable now it's terrifying and now I don't
20:56know what I'm doing with that so that pressure gets put on and it really messes with a guy and the
21:02fact that he was able to turn the tables of this fight by catching a head kick and getting the
21:08takedown and getting into side control is so a it's so him because it's just what however the fight
21:14goes like this was Bruce Lee be water and just flow like water where it's okay eating the head
21:18kick well I got this here already uh let's just take you down and hey look where I am now like that's
21:24not a conventional way of doing anything or anything like that it was just very well done and to be able
21:32impressive to me I I was just blown away by what Tim Elliott was able to do on Saturday there against
21:39Kai Asakura this is a on the other side of it this is a tough loss for Asakura um it's one thing to
21:46lose to the champ in your debut fight that's gonna happen if you are a title contender though this
21:52while I like Tim Elliott appreciate his career this is a fight you needed that that that loss can't
21:58happen um stand-up wise he looked great obviously there's a lot of upside there with the the hands
22:04that he has but he got worked on the ground and then going into the second round it was obvious he
22:14knew and that gave him a bit of a second thought I guess because that that forward pressure now was
22:23gone um because he was so worried about going back to the ground that it stifled the stand-up
22:29offense as well and when you are that good with your hands and wanting to compete at a championship
22:34level that can't happen you should at least be able to survive on the ground enough that you're
22:38not so worried about the takedown that your entire strategy changes um so that was that was eye-opening
22:43I I really didn't like that with um Asakura so the hands phenomenal but the ground game is really
22:50gonna need to come along um because that's a that's a that was worrisome to me that that was
22:59really really concerning um from uh for from Asakura on Saturday uh what what else did you uh notice
23:06from Saturday night let me know in the other the chat or if you're watching after let me know in
23:11the comments or if you disagreed with anything that I said Conrad uh do you think he got caught
23:15thinking too much in the ring 100% yeah like when you are there are times I'll make the joke you could
23:21watch him think in there like he is he's trying to set up the best way that he can to not get taken
23:27down and while he's doing that he's not actually a fighting or b worrying about an actual takedown
23:32that could be coming at him like he is he is so kind of frozen in there very much um paralysis by
23:38analysis of just trying to figure out the exact right angle and he just couldn't get it and that put
23:43him on the mat and he was so worried about basically he was so worried about losing he forgot about
23:48winning and he was so worried about getting put in that spot again that the only thing that was in
23:53his head was just don't do that again even though he had such an edge when he was coming forward and
23:59landing those shots on the the feet and if he was just able to effectively do that it neutralizes a
24:04lot from Tim Elliott's game so yes 100% he got caught thinking too much there couldn't agree with you
24:11more Conrad on that one um once again if you are watching this on on YouTube or wherever um make
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