Khamzat Chimaev finds Kamaru Usman’s desire to box Canelo Alvarez laughable.
Usman has been vying for a boxing match with Alvarez, the No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer in the world, but UFC president Dana White has been heavily dismissive of the idea.
Although White helped co-promote a boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and former UFC dual-champion Conor McGregor, he has zero interest in Usman versus Alvarez, which Chimaev thinks wouldn’t be the slightest bit competitive.
“How is he going to fight Canelo? I don’t understand,” Chimaev said on “The Triple C & Schmo Show.” “The only people who want to see Canelo and him are only him and his manager. Did you see how he hit pads? We have to be realistic about it and the guy is not that level in the boxing. I think I’m the best in the world, but I can’t say I can beat (Canelo) in boxing because I’m not a stupid guy. I understand how it works. The guy all his life did boxing, he knocked out – he killed so many good guys. How (Usman) can say, ‘I’m going to knock him out’? I understand he wants to make money.
“He has only one way to fight Canelo: if they make the fight one second. Just like start and finish. Then he can survive. He can’t survive one minute.”
Chimaev doesn’t lack confidence having gone after UFC champions Usman and Israel Adesanya from the get-go. But even “Borz” says he wouldn’t think of boxing someone like Alvarez.
“I’m never going to do that because I understand how it works,” Chimaev said. “It’s not my game. If he comes to my game, if Canelo comes to the UFC and fights with me, I can take 10 seconds and let him sleep. The guy never did wrestling, grappling, ground-and-pound, these things. You can’t do it.
“(Usman) can’t box, like go jump in from there. This is like a different game, like football and basketball.”
Khamzat Chimaev can’t understand why Kamaru Usman wants to box Canelo Alvarez
