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I think Khamzat is a good fighter, but honestly, I don't get all this crazy hype behind him.
He's kind of unproven at 185, and he was only somewhat proven at 170. You can say he lived up to his hype with the Burns win, but he was like a -400 favorite but it played out into pretty much a even fight (some even have Burns winning).
Everything else, he finishes people so fast (low level fighters) it's hard to tell what his skill level is (look at t-rex, fast finisher but...).
I just feel like we've seen so little of Khamzat, and for his only extended fight with Burns he did not look like a world beater and that was against a small 170er. Usman crushed Burns... fought elite competition for a long time.
Khamzat fought a lot of weaker competition, and went to life and death against someone that Usman KOed. For all his purported power too, he couldn't KO Burns... who is sort of chinny (not very chinny but a little chinny.)
I don't get... explain the hype to me before I make a big bet on Usman and lose my money?
He just shoots straight away except for when he knocked out Meerschart and went to the death vs Burns.
The fight vs Usman will be interesting. Usman is pretty good at wrestling (especially defensively) and hits like a truck and showed he can still make adjustments at this point in his career vs Leon with the headkick defence.
If Khamzat shoots like crazy and Usman weathers the storm, Usman should be able to get him out of there. I hope we see vintage Usman in this fight, win via foot stomps against the cage haha.