It took just three minutes and sixteen seconds for the returning Khamzat Chimaev to put the entire welterweight division on notice with an absolute deconstruction on Li Jinliang at UFC 267.
Li entered the bout winning four of his last five and was ranked eleventh in the world in the division. He has crisp boxing skills, both offensive and defensively, and efficient enough groundwork that many pundits thought this would be a true test for the Chechen born fighter.
What people didn’t know was that Chimaev would have the answer sheet to that test and in the process make people realize a -600 betting odds weren’t large enough.