Usman thinks Chimaev won 48-47: "When one guy's marching forward, he's throwing jabs, mixing it up, he's throwing overhands, and he does get some takedowns in there, and he did this for almost 5 rounds. I don't see how he loses the fight. The other guy just backed up and jabbed the whole time."
Demetrious Johnson believes Khamzat Chimaev overtrained himself before the Strickland fight: “If I spend all day sparring and drilling, then go destroy my body with extra workouts on top of that, I’m just breaking myself down.”