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UFC fighter Khamzat Chimaev has spent the last few months battling the effects of COVID-19 and even announced his retirement from MMA competition earlier this week.
Even though the fighter was seemingly talked out of retiring, UFC President Dana White thinks Chimaev is crazy for how he handled the battle against COVID-19.
“I thought it was crazy,” White son on The Jim Rome Show (via MMA Fighting). “We just talked to the guy. I just flew him out here to get looked at by doctors out here. The problem is the guy has no patience whatsoever. He wants to fight every weekend. He knows he has the abilities to be a world champion. He wants it now, he doesn’t want to wait. They had him on Prednisone, which is a nasty steroid to help his lungs recover and the guy’s going into the gym and training when he’s not supposed to be. He’s supposed to be relaxing. He’s supposed to get through this prescription then they’re going to find out how he looks and he wouldn’t wait. He just keeps on training. You can’t do that when you have what he’s got going on.”
Outside of White, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov also helped convince Chimaev to not retire.
White also states that he has no idea as to what is going to happen to Chimaev.
“To be honest with you, I have no idea what’s going to happen with him,” White said. “I don’t know.”
