Joe Rogan discredits Khamzat Chimaev while detailing the issues he could face at UFC 328

Based on Joe Rogan, the UFC middleweight champion will proceed facing problems against ‘elite wrestlers’.

This coming May 9, Khamzat Chimaev will make the primary defense of his 185lb title when he takes on Sean Strickland within the UFC 328 principal event.

The pair of middleweights have been locked into an intense rivalry over the past few months, to the purpose that UFC boss Dana White canceled an element of their pre-fight buildup.

And despite the fact that ‘Borz’ is being heavily favoured to retain his title in Newark, UFC icon Joe Rogan has detailed the issue Chimaev has faced and will face against Strickland.

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Rogan claims Chimaev is handing fighters who don’t have ‘elite wrestling’

Up to now throughout his UFC tenure, the Chechen has looked relatively untouchable, dominating almost everyone put in front of him.

Rogan, though, believes Chimaev is handling fighters who ‘don’t have a giant background in elite wrestling’, highlighting his fights against Gilbert Burns and Kamaru Usman because the two fights he has looked beatable in.

With that, the UFC commentator has suggested that the UFC 328 principal event could look different to what individuals are expecting.

“The Strickland and Khamzat fight goes to be very interesting,” Rogan said on a recent episode of his podcast.

“Strickland isn’t a simple guy to take down and he’s not a simple guy to carry down and he’s a really difficult guy to hit on his feet, he’s got a brilliant awkward style. His style could be very clever, it’s very different, it’s not something that’s easy to copy so far as timing within the gym.

“His jab is so accurate… To me, it’s gonna be what can Khamzat do on the feet, can he clip him and may Strickland stop the takedowns?”

The previous middleweight champion has a takedown defense percentage of 76%, while Khamzat has a takedown accuracy percentage of 55%.

When Chimaev fought the previous UFC welterweight champion, Usman, on short-notice, he attempted 12 takedowns and was only capable of rating 4 of them.

“His timing on his takedowns is f—— insane, it’s so good. If I used to be going to make an argument against him, he’s handling guys that don’t have a giant background in elite wrestling, they’re not elite grapplers.

“The one guy who was an elite grappler gave him problems… Kamaru Usman. That was a short-notice fight and within the third round Kamaru was winning. That may’ve been very interesting if it was a five round fight.”