{"id":495201,"date":"2025-08-17T06:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495201"},"modified":"2025-08-17T06:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T10:43:08","slug":"chimaev-dominates-du-plessis-to-secure-the-title-at-ufc-319","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chimaev-dominates-du-plessis-to-secure-the-title-at-ufc-319\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimaev dominates Du Plessis to secure the title at UFC 319"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khamzat Chimaev finally made it, and he became the champion for the 1st time in his career in the UFC, as he did it in the USA, and that happened 5 years after his debut in the fighting organization.<\/p>\n<p>Khamzat (15-0) captured the middleweight championship at UFC 319 in Chicago as he was the better fighter from the beginning until the end of his bout against Dricus Du Plessis (23-3). The South African fighter denied a finish to Chimaev, but that\u2019s all that he achieved during the whole bout.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"in\" dir=\"ltr\">Alhamdulilah \u261d\ud83c\udffc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WJTMhRjKg0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WJTMhRjKg0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Khamzat Chimaev (@KChimaev) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KChimaev\/status\/1956986446612418621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>All 3 referees gave the fight in favor of Chimaev 50-44, who set the organization\u2019s record for most total strikes landed in a fight with 529 compared with just 45 for Dricus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m always happy,\u201d shared Khamzat moments after becoming the champ. \u201cI never have a plan for the fights, I just do my best at the gym. Du Plessis is strong. I couldn\u2019t end him. I respect him for that. Dricus is the only champ that would say my name. He has a big heart,\u201d added Chimaev after his dominant victory.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The belt belongs to Borz \ud83d\udc3a<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC319?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UFC319<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KChimaev?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KChimaev<\/a> ] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WeWiK6GWFK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WeWiK6GWFK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1956950220035740040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khamzat Chimaev finally made it, and he became the champion for the 1st time in his career in the UFC, as he did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":495202,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[26749,26750,26748],"news_category":[16710,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[26752,21857,26751],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Khamzat dominated his opponent from the 1st second until the last.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495203,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495201\/revisions\/495203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495201"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495201"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}