With two fights remaining on his current deal, Khamzat
Chimaev has signed a contract extension with the
Ultimate Fighting Championship ahead of his upcoming clash with
Kamaru
Usman at
UFC 294, according to a report from ESPN’s Brett
Okamoto.
Details of the exclusive, mulit-fight deal were not disclosed by
Chimaev’s manager, Majdi Shammas.
Saturday’s fight against Usman (20-3) will mark Chimaev’s return to
the cage a little more than a year since his UFC 279 catchweight
meeting with Kevin
Holland.
While “Borz” did secure an impressive first-round submission
against Holland, his inability to make weight for his original
welterweight matchup against Nate Diaz
jeopardized the entire card and led to a number of fights being
reshuffled.
As a result, Chimaev (12-0) has now decided to stick to the
middleweight division instead of trying to make the grueling cut to
170 pounds.