Khamzat Chimaev's coach has revealed he was "upset" with the rising star after he deviated away from the game plan in a bid to stop Gilbert Burns.
The Chechen star recorded a victory over Burns in a thrilling clash at UFC 273 where he was forced to recover from being dropped twice to outpoint his rival. Chimaev was very aggressive during the showdown and refused to shy away from toe-to-toe action with the Brazilian.
But Michael admitted that the plan was to outbox Burns and pointed out his charge had not yet gone beyond the second round prior to his UFC 273 victory. “The plan was to just box him,” Andreas Michael said on The MMA Hour . “Keep the jab going because that’s the way to handle that situation. He did absolutely everything we didn’t work on and he just wanted to show the people, ‘Listen, I’m here, I’m gonna walk through this guy.’ But there’s a reason these guys are there.
