Khamzat Chimaev wants a fight with Alex Pereira, but Jared Cannonier says he should go through a contender to get it.
After Pereira defeated Israel Adesanya by fifth-round TKO at UFC 281 this past November, Chimaev was one of the first fighters to challenge the newly crowned UFC middleweight champion. ‘Borz’ and his team have said a fight with ‘Po Atan’ would be ‘amazing,’ but that could see him leapfrog the rest of the division. And with contenders, including the ‘Killa Gorilla,’ in the queue for Pereira, Chimaev should be at the end of the line.