UFC 328: 5 big takeaways after Khamzat Chimaev's unbeatable aura vanishes against Sean Strickland
Top takeaways from UFC 328, including Sean Strickland's underdog win to reclaim the UFC middleweight title in a close fight with Khamzat Chimaev.
UFC 328 gave us one massive title upset and one all-time great championship battle . Here are the top takeaways from Saturday night’s event in Newark, New Jersey. 1.
Who would’ve ever thought we’d see another Sean Strickland title reign at middleweight? Definitely not the oddsmakers. Not most of us in the media, either.
On paper, this looked like another opportunity for Khamzat Chimaev to go out and do his thing. And, for exactly one round, that’s what we got. Chimaev took Strickland down 15 seconds into the fight and then kept him there for the entire first frame.
Strickland did not even get credit for a single attempted significant strike in Round 1. All he did was avoid getting choked. Somehow, that turned out to be a brilliant strategy, since Chimaev fell completely apart in the second round and then had to gradually rally himself back into the fight down the stretch.
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