The dust has settled following UFC 319 in recent days, but heavy criticism still surrounds former champion Dricus du Plessis in his middleweight title loss to Khamzat Chimaev. One of those critics is former UFC two-division champion Daniel Cormier,

Khamzat Chimaev isn’t wasting time after defeating Dricus Du Plessis for the UFC middleweight crown. The undefeated champion has already called out a new challenger for his first title defense in Abu Dhabi.

Khamzat Chimaev has looked the part of a pound-for-pound great from the first time he stepped into the Octagon in 2020. In the opening round of his UFC debut, Chimaev landed 118 strikes, the second most by a middleweight in any round in the promotion's history.

Ever since his 2020 UFC debut, when he earned a trio of dominant victories in a stretch of just 65 days, Khamzat Chimaev has been the promotion's greatest enigma as a fighter who is capable of magic in one performance only to look surprisingly human in his next amid a somewhat consistent stretch of inactivity.