{"id":40219,"date":"2026-09-01T05:42:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T05:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Caio-Borralho-says-Khamzat-Chimaev-doesnt-deserve-UFC-title-shot-202612"},"modified":"2026-09-01T05:42:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T05:42:56","slug":"caio-borralho-says-khamzat-chimaev-doesnt-deserve-ufc-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/caio-borralho-says-khamzat-chimaev-doesnt-deserve-ufc-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Caio Borralho says Khamzat Chimaev doesn’t deserve UFC title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Caio
\nBorralho<\/a> has weighed in on how the
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> middleweight title picture could
\nplay out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Natural\u201d is targeting a return for November or December after
\nrecovering from a rib injury that forced him out of his scheduled
\nbout with Joe Pyfer<\/a> at
\nUFC
\n330<\/a>. Ahead of his return, he broke down the championship mix at
\n185 pounds and how he believes it\u2019ll unfold.<\/p>\n

\n

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Borralho backs Nassourdine Imavov to challenge Sean Strickland
\nnext<\/h2>\n

Borralho has revealed that he is already back to full training and
\nexpects to begin another fight camp in the coming weeks. He
\nbelieves he needs one or two more victories before challenging for
\nthe championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think one or two more on the way to the belt,\u201d Borralho told
\nMMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m just waiting for the name.
\nBut we have Pyfer, we have Brendan
\nAllen<\/a>. Both of them I can fight. They can fight between two of
\nthem, or I can fight both of them. I think we\u2019re in the top of the
\ndivision, so anyone that wins the next fight may be the one next
\nfor the title shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Borralho is open to rebooking the Pyfer matchup, but he prefers a
\nhigher-ranked contender. As for the current title picture, the
\nBrazilian doesn\u2019t believe former champ Khamzat
\nChimaev<\/a> deserves a title shot as he\u2019s coming off a loss.
\nRather, he claims Nassourdine
\nImavov<\/a>, the only man to beat him in the UFC, should be next for
\na shot at Sean
\nStrickland<\/a>\u2019s belt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Imavov deserves the title next,\u201d Borralho added. \u201cHe
\nalready has a history with Strickland, that he lost in a light
\nheavyweight fight, in a short-notice fight for Strickland and I
\nthink he did everything that he needed to deserve the title shot,
\nso I think he needs to be the one next.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caio Borralho has weighed in on how the Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight title picture could play out. \u201cThe Natural\u201d is targeting a return for November or December after recovering from a rib injury that forced him out of his scheduled bout with Joe Pyfer at UFC 330. Ahead of his return, he broke down the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}