The UFC made superstars from Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov and Ronda Rousey.
The most important promotion of MMA has serious trouble filling the void left out of the sport due to their departure.
Conor McGregor wants to make a comeback, but his UFC career is almost over at the moment.
Only three active hunters are able to replace him as the face of MMA after collecting an enormous amount of followers of social media.
Conor McGregor made waves with his opening comments at the large press conference of BKFC. Credit: BKFC
Khamzat Chimaev comes within three men UFC Club
Khamzat Chimaev is preparing for his first UFC title fight against Dricus Du Plessis.
They will take place on Saturday night at the UFC 319 for middleweight gold on UFC 319, which will take place on Saturday evening in the United Center of Chicago.
Fans are clearly taken by the 14-0 Russian phenomenon, because they are on their way to his Instagram page in large numbers.
Chimaev just hit 10 million followers days before a single punch was thrown at UFC 319. He joins an exclusive three-man club of active UFC hunters with eight-digit followers on the platform.
Islam Makhachev has 10.7 million followers after having enjoyed a historically dominant run at lightweight.
He is, however, surpassed by the man who claimed his old title of 155 pounds by eliminating Charles Oliveria on UFC 317 in June.
Pound-for-Pond number one Ilia Topuria seems to be the largest star in the selection, with 11.5 million followers on Instagram.
Chimaev could go for him if he extracts Du Plessis on an impressive fashion at UFC 319.
Khamzat Chimaev just became 1 of only 3 active UFC hunters to surpass 10m followers on Instagram 🤯
Ilia Topuria – 11.5mislam Makhachev – 10.7m
Superstar Before he even fights for the title … pic.twitter.com/vgagu9ius2
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Israel Adesanya predicts UFC 319
Israel Adesanya believes that the reputation of Khamzat Chimaev will take a big hit this weekend.
The former dual UFC champion middle weight knows what it is like to fight against Dricus du Plessis.
'Stylebender' did well before he had a defeat of 185LB King on UFC 305 in August 2024 in August 2024.
Adesanya predicts that 'deep waters' will be the difference when 'DDP' will decrease against Chimaev.
“I look at this fight in two ways: Khamzat comes out, gets DDP and just drags him in deep water in the first or second, and finishes it,” he said in his UFC 319 prediction video.
“Or DDP corresponds to his madman, Khamzat is crazy with his kind of crazy and his willingness not to stop, and then drags Khamzat to deep water in the third, fourth or fifth round and brings him away. That is how I see this fight go.
“Khamzat showed his hand, he goes after him from the start. But I think 'DDP' will end the storm and will probably finish Khamzat later, because it will be round 3, 4, 5, it will be a problem. I say round 3 or 4, 'DDP'. But if Khamzat will be DDP '.
“The UFC probably wants Khamzat champion because he is a man who brings a lot of eyes, says it and gets done type S – … he will get it done. He is just stubborn. Dry by Late Tko.”