Khamzat Chimaev vs. Prime Demian Maia - Who wins?

[TCE]

That fight has an absolute snoozefest written all over it.

 

[michi972]

How is that a competitive fight? Maia got KOed by Burns the fight before Burns faced Chimaev, which Chimaev won by (barely) outstriking Burns.

Maia can't takedown Chimaev nor backpack him and gets busted up in the striking departement, probably gets finished.

I don't remember Maia landing any takedowns on either Woodley, Covington or Askren. He landed one on Usman but then (controversially if I recall correctly) got standed up by the ref. I believe it was a stalled position though where neither could advance.

I agree on the outcome, but Burns fight is not a good example. He beat 43 years old Demian

 

[FEDORFAN44]

Khamzat by ko

 

[TriangleMonkey]

If you like striking go watch K-1

At least they actually kickbox really well there










*Boring stand-up affair

 

[fedoriswar37]

Right but the point is he landed one takedown against all the elite wrestlers he faced (I forgot to mention Covington by the way) and that was against Usman who Chimaev wrestlefucked in R1 and even got him down in the other rounds with a broken wrist. Maia is never going to get close to his back or landing a takedown.

He doesn't need to land a takedown. Khamzat will take him down. Then its new game.

 

[ImNotMirsadBektic]

He doesn't need to land a takedown. Khamzat will take him down. Then its new game.

He won't take him down until he beat him up or rocked him, just like Covington did.

 

[fedoriswar37]

He won't take him down until he beat him up or rocked him, just like Covington did.

Prime Maia had really good striking defense and Khamzats doesn't look to be out of this world. Did you even watch Maia in his prime ?

 

[Dionysian]

That was not prime Maia, though, and was a shitty call out from khamzat's part.

Anyways, guys, Khamzat would just out box Maia. I say that as probably the biggest maia fan on here. Khamzat probably wouldn't grapple offensively at all, and if he did, it would be towards the end of rounds like what weidman did, to avoid any chance of getting swept and giving up a dominant position.

I hear you but he had no wins over anyone in the top 20 back then and Maia was ranked so at the time there would have been decent amounts of people favoring Maia

 

[Left Hook Lacy]

I feel there was a brief period of time when Maia had finally developed a really strong takedown game before he started getting too old. He still would have gotten outstruck most likely, but I feel at that point he would have been a live underdog that can always secure a few takedowns on a good day.

 

[SalvadorAllende]

Chimaev beats the shit out of him standing.

 

[chiefwiggum]

rdr is a much better matchu. it could look like Werdum Velasquez.
That’s the fight I want to see.

 

[JKS]

Chimaev wins this either striking or grappling.