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00:09Khamzat Chimayev with that famed look in his eye.
00:13Trying to take out a former champion for the first time in his career.
00:21Kamar Usman is in the white.
00:23Khamzat Chimayev is in black.
00:25Go-main event is underway.
00:28This is a very important part to this fight.
00:30The early fight for Kamar Usman.
00:33Khamzat changes levels here.
00:35Gets to a single.
00:37Usman defending effectively right now.
00:39Chimayev's got to move it.
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00:47Chimayev right away wants to test the wrestling, huh?
00:49That was a big question.
00:51Could Usman defend the takedowns?
00:54Chimayev gets the first one.
01:02You know, this is smart, too, on other levels.
01:05Other than just wanting to test the wrestling.
01:07Yep.
01:08He's also going to wear on the tank.
01:09Yes.
01:10He's potentially not where it should be if he had a full training camp.
01:14Already almost getting a black belt.
01:15He's got double mount.
01:17Now Usman's flattened out.
01:19Usman's got to move.
01:22Big shots from Chimayev.
01:24Usman covering up.
01:25And now Usman bucks.
01:27Chimayev stays on the back.
01:29But Usman's got to be very careful here.
01:32Because if he leaves a submission out there, Chimayev will jump on it.
01:38Comes out Chimayev has full back control very early in this fight.
01:42Yeah, he's trying to base up here a little bit.
01:47He's in a bit of a better position here than he was.
01:49He was on the brink of being completely flattened out.
01:51But now he's got to watch his neck.
02:00When you're in this position, you cannot get flattened out.
02:03Most times, you will roll to your back, then come back to your knees.
02:07But with Chimayev on top of you, it's too dangerous to go to your back
02:11because he's so good in the ground upon.
02:20Chimayev controlling that right wrist of Usman now.
02:23And you see Usman wants to clear one of those legs from being in.
02:27But Chimayev had no part to that.
02:30And doing a really good job of controlling the wrist,
02:33not letting him use his hands to build his base.
02:35Yeah, exactly.
02:36Getting a little high now.
02:37Yes, he is.
02:38Falling off a bit here.
02:39Now Usman's got to swim.
02:41He's got to think wrestling back in the day.
02:43Take that left shoulder back to where his left hand goes between his legs.
02:46And he's got to dip the shoulder to let Chimayev fall over the top.
02:50Now Chimayev's back.
02:55Usman's certainly staying measured here defensively as we cross the midpoint of round one.
02:59And he had to have known, John, that this is going to be the start that Chimayev was going to
03:05try to approach.
03:06He's going to try to just swarm him.
03:08Yep.
03:10And he is doing a good job of not taking any big damage on the shots.
03:14Right.
03:15A couple of nice shots there from Chimayev.
03:17Oh, that was a good one.
03:20He's going to get a body triangle here.
03:25Got to watch his neck standing up here.
03:27Yeah, that's where the shoulder comes.
03:28Oh.
03:29He's got to keep fighting the top hand.
03:32Oh, man, this is getting close.
03:33Chimayev staying on.
03:34Now he's starting to get tougher.
03:36Usman's got to fight the hand.
03:39Oh, he switches up the up now.
03:41Oh, he gets slammed down by Usman.
03:46Oh, that was fast.
03:48Usman recognized that that was going to get real tight.
03:50He's like, I've got to do this now or never.
03:51But now he's flattened out there, Paul.
03:54This is bad.
03:59I mean, Chimayev is doing such a phenomenal job of controlling
04:03Kamaru Usman on the ground right now.
04:06And we've never seen this.
04:08This is only the second time Kamaru Usman's gotten taken down
04:10in his career.
04:11And while Leon Edwards got him down
04:13and did have some control,
04:15he never put him in any danger.
04:18Not like this.
04:19Not putting Kamaru in survival mode here.
04:21Well, that's exactly what he's at.
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04:39Chimayev making a lot of these shots
04:41late in the round count.
04:45But now you know why Usman didn't stand up
04:47earlier in the round.
04:48Yeah, because he knew he was going to throw that choke
04:49in right away.
04:51Now Usman at least free of this super dangerous spot
04:55where he could be flattened out
04:56or even get the body triangle put around him.
04:58He's got a base now.
04:59He can maybe survive to the second round
05:01and hope to get a better start.
05:04Chimayev is impressive, man.
05:05He is impressive.
05:07So aggressive.
05:08Oh my goodness, he's impressive.
05:11Usman catering up now late in the round.
05:15But he will survive to see a round two.
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05:23Handling the jiu-jitsu coaching and the grappling coaching
05:25for Kamaru Usman.
05:27Round two.
05:28Chimayev in the black.
05:29Usman in white.
05:31Usman has got to defend the takedown.
05:34He cannot get taken down early in this round.
05:38It would just be deflating for him
05:40to end up back on his stomach
05:42for another four and a half minutes.
05:50Perhaps Usman trying to manage that gas tank too
05:52a little bit early in round two.
05:54Yeah, still recovering a bit.
05:56Because that's just exhausting
05:58when you've got somebody in your back like that
05:59trying to flatten you out.
06:00Threatening chokes the entire time.
06:02And I asked Chimayev, I said,
06:04do you attack Kamaru Usman
06:06like you do all these other guys?
06:07He goes, brother, what else would I do?
06:09Right.
06:09It's what he does
06:10and he'll fight in that way every single time.
06:12Nice low leg kick from Usman.
06:14Chimayev switches up the stance.
06:19Usman's got to keep his back off the fence
06:21because Chimayev within level change.
06:26Chimayev's doing a really good job
06:27of moving his head and shoulders.
06:30Switching up the looks that he's giving Kamaru.
06:34Usman with a level change.
06:35Now he lands a shot.
06:42Love that Kamaru reached down for the leg
06:44just to give Chimayev the idea
06:46that the wrestler may be coming back in his direction.
06:48Yeah, he wasn't even thinking about a takedown there.
06:51He just wanted to get it in his head.
06:58Under three and a half here to go in round two.
07:00Perhaps good enough for a 10-8
07:02for Hamzat Chimayev in round one.
07:05Big body kick.
07:10And we are watching that Hamzat Chimayev that has
07:16involved in a sense of he's taking a much more mature approach
07:19to the way that he's fighting this fight
07:20against Kamaru Usman.
07:22So while he may not tell you
07:24that he respects him,
07:25you can tell that he does in the way that he's fighting him.
07:29And after a dominant first round,
07:30could be eight minutes away from a guaranteed title shot.
07:33So perhaps some risk mitigation as well.
07:37Nice low kick from Chimayev.
07:41But if they're Kamaru,
07:43the one thing that Gilbert Burns did
07:44to find success is took chances.
07:46Gilbert took a lot of chances,
07:48and by taking those chances,
07:49he did take damage,
07:50but he put Chimayev in spots
07:52that we had never seen him in before.
07:54Yeah, he was aggressive.
07:54We're coming back with the strikes.
08:00Kamaru has got to try to do something here.
08:02I'd like to see Usman actually try to get a takedown.
08:06Good straight right hand from Usman
08:08coming up on two minutes here to go round two.
08:11Usman is having success in the striking.
08:14The one area in which Usman is probably happy
08:18is that the activity level is not crazy high.
08:20Sure.
08:21So they're going tit for tat right now.
08:24Right, five significant strikes landed for Usman
08:26unofficially, just seven on 18 attempts for Chimayev thus far.
08:30Is it interesting that Chimayev has
08:32completely slowed the pace here in a second?
08:34Do you think he potentially
08:35has worn himself a bit in the first?
08:38Sure.
08:38It's very odd for me to be watching
08:41how much slower he has approached round number two.
08:45Because by taking his foot off the gas a little bit,
08:47he's allowing the Kamaru Usman to be in the round.
08:51After round one, we had no doubt he won.
08:53But I mean, one big explosion from either guy right now,
08:56and you would think that they're ahead in round two.
09:00He's got a lot of work to do.
09:03Usman saw that head kick coming.
09:07Again, a fainted level change, last shot there from Usman.
09:10Yeah, it makes me wondering if he's trying to faint
09:12these takedowns and set up a right hand, John.
09:14There he is, Pagli.
09:15On cue, a chap, and a beautiful right from Usman.
09:17And now a low leg kick.
09:19Yeah, that was a nice calf kick there from Kamaru.
09:22If he can keep this fight going at this pace.
09:25Yep.
09:26However, though, if it was a 10-8, he's got a lot of work to do.
09:30Can certainly argue he's winning round two through four minutes.
09:34And it would be a 10-8 based on duration of the control
09:36because while Hamzat did have control, it threw the...
09:39Oh, what a shot!
09:41Beautiful shot by Chemiah.
09:44I mean, his timing on his takedown entries are very impressive.
09:48But why not sooner, DC?
09:50Why not sooner in the round?
09:51I think just kind of knowing that it would take a lot of energy
09:54to control Kamaru and Usman as he did in round one.
09:58And, I mean, he got this takedown with 30 seconds left in the round.
10:02Usman's holding on to the chest wrap.
10:05So, Chemiah's stuck there.
10:07But he did get the takedown.
10:10Usman came in 97% takedown defense.
10:12Had only been taken down once, three times tonight
10:15by Chemiah, but now pops his head out.
10:17Crazy.
10:24Just like that, 10 minutes down,
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10:32Well, Paul Hamzat, you know, maybe the cardio king,
10:35but the man with all the championship experiences
10:37on the other side and looking to be pretty fresh here
10:39start around three.
10:40Yeah, I mean, that was the pace that he wants this fight to be at.
10:43But he gave up that takedown at the very end of that round,
10:45which was a close round.
10:46There's one.
10:48Got out of the way, that one.
10:49He's got to land some strikes, though, in between these.
10:52That's what Charlie Whitman was telling him.
10:54He said, throw.
10:54You've got to go forward.
10:55He goes, you cannot just stand in front of him.
10:57He goes, because then he'll shoot.
10:59Chemiah's corner wants him to wrestle more early.
11:03But they, Whitman and Usman, if Usman can play the distance
11:07and stay in that range,
11:09Hamzat Chemiah goes backwards every time.
11:12Go!
11:12Go!
11:14Go!
11:14Go!
11:15Go!
11:16Go!
11:16Go!
11:16Go!
11:16Go!
11:16Go!
11:16Go!
11:16Partially landed that lead hand.
11:21Chemiah's corner wants the right hand.
11:23They feel like that could be available, too.
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11:33Get your hands with your grip.
11:35That's where you go.
11:36Fight just feels like it's happening so quickly.
11:40Yeah.
11:41Just 21 combined significant strikes.
11:44Big run for Usman now.
11:47And now Chemiah opens up with the right hand.
11:51Oh, nice tee there from...
11:54Oh, he slipped.
11:55Every time Usman defends a takedown, it's more confidence.
12:00Stiff jab by Usman there.
12:03He took one-two for Chemiah.
12:04Yeah, they both end up.
12:06Give it up.
12:06Give it up.
12:06Give it up.
12:07But this is so much better work here for Kamara.
12:10He wants it to be a bit more of a striking battle.
12:13Clearly, Kamara.
12:15Nice jab again.
12:17And look at Kamara and Usman on two weeks notice going long round three.
12:22We have seen Kamara and Usman in these lots of fights like Colvin Covington.
12:27He said he wanted this, and now he's taking the fight with Chemiah.
12:31Oh, no.
12:32I don't think he should do that.
12:33I think he stays out in the boxing range, and he's going to do really well from here.
12:37Keep the footwork going like that.
12:39Chemiah has got to shoot.
12:42But I don't know where his energy's at right now, guys.
12:48Inside leg kick for Khamzak Chemiah.
12:54Khamaru Usman, when I asked him, is it you have to win this fight or, oh, no, Chemiah's
13:00in a double leg here.
13:01This is good for Chemiah here.
13:02This is what he needed.
13:04Usman's got to get desperate here.
13:06Tremendous pursuit on that takedown for Chemiah.
13:09Chemiah is one of those guys that if he gets close to your leg, he can grab an ankle, and
13:13he'll build his way up to your body to take it out.
13:16This is exactly what he needed.
13:18So, Khamaru Usman was getting the better of the exchanges on the feet round three, and now
13:22Chemiah's world.
13:24What a tremendous show of maturity by Khamzak Chemiah.
13:30To deal with the adversity that he was dealing with in this round, and still go and find
13:35his position.
13:39Khamaru has got to get up.
13:40He cannot end the fight here on his back.
13:46Khamaru Usman preventing the mount nicely there.
13:50Under two minutes now to decide it.
13:52The way to get out of here is to first get your left arm underhook.
13:56Get to your right hip and start to build your way back to a single leg.
14:00If you're Khamaru Usman, if your hands out Chemiah, it is perfect.
14:03He's flat on his back.
14:05You got him under control.
14:06Do not let him start to get up to a hip.
14:08He's got the underhook.
14:11Step one.
14:12Step two.
14:13Get to that hip.
14:14Get up to your elbow on the right side.
14:16And protect your neck while you're doing it, though.
14:19Chemiah is rushing.
14:20Nice job using that.
14:21Yep.
14:21Yep.
14:21Controlled the head there of Usman, not allowing him to get up to that hip any further.
14:28One minute now to go.
14:30Chemiah working on his fourth secure takedown on 12 attempts tonight.
14:37And if you're Usman, desperation time to try to leverage a hip somehow, someway, get upright.
14:43I don't think it's going to happen, John.
14:45No, Chemiah is so heavy on top.
14:48He's so heavy on top.
14:50And that is where you see a guy that has been dealing with the idea of going up and the
14:58guy that went up on two.
14:59Oh.
15:00There it is.
15:01That was your escape.
15:03He's got to pull on the pressure, though, Usman.
15:05Usman is going to have to press now.
15:09Final 20 seconds.
15:13Usman's going to have to just go.
15:15Chemiah has just got to make the final bell now.
15:17Chemiah raises the guard wisely.
15:22Usman loads up on the right hand.
15:24On a swing.
15:27Oh, a big left hand.
15:29Oh, a long way late.
15:30What a tremendous fight.
15:32Kanzak Chemiah and Kamala Usman go the distance here in front of an appreciative crowd in Abu Dhabi.
15:43What an effort by the former welterweight champion Kamaru Usman.
15:48And Dana White just said to Kamaru, thank you.
15:50Yep.
15:50Thank you for stepping up.
15:53Oh, dude, that's a scary guy to take on short notice and to go all three rounds and be as
15:57competitive as he was.
15:59Yeah.
15:59Shit, come on.
16:00Amazing show.
16:02And that's what champions do.
16:03You know, this guy's been in there with the best in the world for a real long time and has
16:07shown that fight.
16:07But hats off to Hamza Chemiah for not only fighting a champ but fighting the way he did.
16:13He got to the mount early in round one.
16:15Kamaru slams him.
16:18Chemiah still somehow maintains top position.
16:22Usman lands a beautiful jab as the fight goes longer.
16:27High kick, or body kick, sorry, from Chemiah here.
16:33Usman with the one-two puts Chemiah on his heels.
16:36Another right hand landed for Usman late.
16:39Chemiah gets a key takedown in round number three.
16:42A lot of top control.
16:44This is not a fight, isn't it?
16:45Two guys just letting it all hang out.
16:48Unreal.
16:49Swinging, man.
16:55Ladies and gentlemen, after three rounds, we go to the judges' score cards for a decision.
17:02Derek clearly scores the contest.
17:0329-27.
17:06Chemiah.
17:07Vito Paolillo scores it.
17:1029-27.
17:13And David Letheby scores it.
17:1428-28.
17:16For the winner by majority decision,
17:18Hobbs at
17:20Bush
17:21and Maya