Lol no he doesn't. He's performing well but let's not get carried away here.
Damien Maia is good and will likely be in the Hall of Fame, so, suck it TS. Marty likely owns Khamzat but Khamzat isn't even close to his level yet so we won't see it. yet.
I mean in their style, not in the gap of victory performance between them and their opponents. They're both very in your face, with putting physical intangibles onto you. I don't expect Chimaev to have that same gap between him and his opponents performance the further he moves up the ranks. But if he continues to improve I think he can give the top of the WW division similar problems with that physical intangibility and putting it on guys. It's why i'd like to see Chimaev fight Wonderboy next. Burns just recently fought Wonderboy too. And although burns won, Wonderboy being his usual hard to get your hands on him style made it difficult for Gilbert to really build the momentum against him. Would tell us a lot to see how chimaev's performance compared to burns where they often employ similar styles of getting after it and seeing if you can handle their pressure/strengths.
He can bang with anyone in the division, and knows his ground game is good enough to hang. I would love to see him vs Covington, although Colby can win, I think Gil could KO him cold and Colby would never recover.
This guy's fall will be a sight to behold.
