How many fights will Khamzat have next year? (2026)

[Takes Two To Tango]

I hope Khamzat is ready to rumble. Considering he was relatively unscathed in his last fight with Dricus. I really hope he can at least have two fights next year.

3 would be ideal, but I doubt it.

What's your prediction?

 

[Croton]

2 or strip him imho.

 

[mmacrisis]

He will have a single fight. While he will win, he won't fight again for various reasons, burning more of the short time fighters have to prove how great they are.

 

[Lee Danger]

1 at best.

 

[octagonation]

3

 

[Versez]

Hopefully it will be at least 2 belt defends.

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

One... Probably in July or August.

 

[Xoleth]

the only guy who voted "3 fights" is the guy who opened this thread

Thread 'Khamzat Chimaev is a bigger star then Alex Pereira in the last 5 years according to Google trends worldwide'

Oct 11, 2025

I don´t know what Poatan fans have been smoking thinking there boy is actully a bigger star then Chimaev, brah could be fighitng 10 times a year he would not touch Khamzat Chimaev worldwide.

Get outta here kids, Never wanna see stupid shxt like ´´´Pereira bigger star ever again´´ and the gap is just gonna grow bigger from here on out as Pereira is on his way out and Chimaev is even gonna go further up

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such optimism

 

[Unheralded Truth]

I'm thinking three?

It makes sense. Early Paramount fight, then the Trump card and in the fall somewhere in the middle east.

 

[Greyscale]

0-1

 

[bng]

championship status where 90% of champs fight once per year, and of course, our favorite thing - ramdandan
as u know quran doesnt allow you to fight, to fight for prizes, to walk around half naked in front of public, get under influence or getting drunk, interact with kafirs to fight during ramdandan, so most likely Khamzard fights one time in 2026

 

[SeanWRT]

If he fights I’d watch as a normal mma fan, if he doesn’t I wouldn’t care.
Simply put, he doesn’t deserve the attention he has

 

[Mike]

Either 1 or 2, highly likely to be 1. All the people always saying champs should fight 3x per year? You are living about 2 decades in the past my guy. I liked it better back then too but we gotta be real.

 

[chinarice]

Aspinall hasn't fought in damn near 1.5 years and no one says boo. If I ever need a lesson in how to be elite in the art of double standards, I will always come here

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

More likely 0 or 1 , but I am hoping for 3+

UFC MW belt has been one of the more active belts over the years, so it would be a sad shame if we get less than 3 a year.

 

[BigTruck]

Aspinall hasn't fought in damn near 1.5 years and no one says boo. If I ever need a lesson in how to be elite in the art of double standards, I will always come here

This is not true at all though. Jon jones was the reason for the hold up not aspinall. Tom would have fought but the UFC kept saying the jon fight was a done deal then Jon would back out not tom. 1.5 years is bullshit though.

 

[188912345]

I'm assuming the people who picked 0-1 also picked Whittaker and DDP to defeat him.

 

[Why did you]

1 if we're lucky,2 if miracle happens, 0 i would not be srprised

 

[Tweak896]

I think he gets the Islam schedule of 2 a year. Many are looking past how his visa issues held him back and how without the belt most turned down the fight, so he had a harder time than most. Also seems like he got his health dialed in. UFC doesn't seem to like to book their champs too often unless they save their ass from cards with no main events like Pereira. Khamzat is basically doing Topuria's schedule but people are only focusing on Khamzat because of his activity history.

 

[MMACro]

I think 2