Rising UFC challenger Khamzat Chimaev has set his tongue on social media after posting a Twitter post along with a couple of ring girls covered in laughing emojis.
Welterweight star Chimaev was recently seen in action in a headline wrestling match at Bulldog Fight Night 9 in Sweden with UFC fighter Jack Hermansson.
The Chechen-born sensation was distanced by the Swede before he was declared a comfortable winner on points.
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Some of the entertainment for the event included Chimaev posing with a couple of ring girls – one of them, Denisa Gudelj, posted the photo on her Instagram account.
When he went to Twitter to issue his own cryptic message on Wednesday, a flashing and hooded Chimaev was seen inside the cage flanked by models at the event in Gothenburg, with the text “no ring girls” followed by three laughing emojis.
Laughing emojis were also placed over the ring girls in the picture.
There were no further comments, but the thoughts of some fans diverged directly to the comments earlier this year by Dagestani’s former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.
When discussing the role of ring girls in connection with his own Eagle FC MMA campaign, the devout Muslim Khabib said that they were basically “unnecessary”.
It provoked a backlash from a number of UFC Octagon girls such as Brittney Palmer and mockery of longtime Khabib enemy Conor McGregor.
However, Khabib later said he was unconcerned.
“I know I’m always saying very strange things too, but I do not care. This is my opinion: I was born with this, I grew up with this and I have [delivered in] hetero [style] my opinion “, said the undefeated Russian star.
“Sometimes, when I say something, people do not agree with this but I do not care because I know I am right in my mind.
“This is my promotion and I make decisions,” Khabib added. “I’m going to do what I want, not [UFC boss Dana White] or other people.
“Dana can do whatever he wants. Sometimes he does things I do not understand either, but I never judge him – this is his decision because his name is Dana White, my name is Khabib. If I have an opinion, I just say it. “
Chimaev is currently awaiting his next UFC mission after wiping out all four men he has met in the Octagon so far.
The most recent of them was China’s Li Jingliang, who was sent in by ‘Borz’ in the first round of their 170lbs competition at UFC 267 at the end of October.
It moved 10-0 Chimaev up to 10th place in the welterweight rankings, with demands on him to face a significant step up in the competition in his next match when the Sweden-based sensation plans a potential title shot.
(RT.com)
Source: sn.dk