Khamzat Chimaev, Du Plessis
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It was an extremely long night for Dricus du Plessis at UFC 319 in Chicago. The former UFC middleweight champion lost his title to Khamzat Chimaev via a smothering so complete that the judges all awarded the fight to “Borz” with 50-44 scores.
Ever since his 2020 UFC debut, when he earned a trio of dominant victories in a stretch of just 65 days, Khamzat Chimaev has been the promotion's greatest enigma as a fighter who is capable of magic in one performance only to look surprisingly human in his next amid a somewhat consistent stretch of inactivity.