Nobody’s cracked the code on Khamzat Chimaev, fifteen fights, and fifteen wins. Even Dricus Du Plessis, riding high on an 11-fight winning streak, got absolutely steamrolled at UFC 319. It was another reminder of just how dangerous Chimaev really is when he gets going. Now, Marvin Vettori hasn’t held back when talking about Chimaev’s demolition of DDP.
Vettori acknowledges Chimaev’s wrestling as looking really sharp, showing a clear hole in DDP’s game. When Du Plessis hit the ground, he was stuck there and couldn’t build a base to get back up. Vettori wasn’t ready to give Chimaev the royal treatment, arguing that the middleweight division has too many elite grapplers to call him unstoppable.
In his words, “Khamzat exposed that Dricus can’t get back up to his feet. He got ragdolled. Good