Anthony Smith thinks Kamaru Usman is in for a “tricky struggle” against Khamzat Chimaev

Anthony Smith believes it may maybe well maybe well be tricky sledding for Kamaru Usman in a showdown with Khamzat Chimaev.

Usman, the weak UFC Welterweight Champion, has been calling to struggle Chimaev. “Borz” has replied, also expressing his desire for the matchup. The preliminary holdup appears to had been Usman desperate to assemble it a catchweight struggle. With that said, UFC President Dana White insists “The Nigerian Nightmare” is pounding the table for the match.

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“Advanced Fight” For Kamaru Usman?

Within the future of an episode of the “Judge You Me” podcast, Anthony Smith chimed in on the bout, and he feels Usman may maybe maybe well get a rough plug against Chimaev (by process of MMAFighting.com).

“It’s a fearless plug, for certain,” Smith said on Judge You Me. “It says rather a lot about the set he is mentally because I get rather a couple of folk had been sort of writing him off appropriate just a minute bit and asserting, ‘Oh, he’s performed. He’s doubtlessly appropriate gonna sort of go off into retirement.’ However him desperate to struggle Khamzat is the entire opposite of that.

“That’s a tricky struggle for Kamaru if I’m appropriate being very merely and shiny with my prognosis. I get what he does properly sort of suits merely into Khamzat’s game. I get maybe a younger much less beat-up Kamaru, I get that struggle’s just a minute bit utterly different. He’s no longer as mighty of a wrestler as he aged to be. He aged to plug the takedown relentlessly. I don’t think he even has the functionality to in truth attain that anymore appropriate alongside with his knees and some of that stuff.”

Usman has misplaced two straight bouts to Leon Edwards. While a 3-struggle skid once regarded impossible for Usman, it’s a in truth true possibility. The weak welterweight king is having a gaze to remind struggle followers appropriate how elite he is.