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Khamzat Chimaev avoids punishment despite missing weight for Nate Diaz fight

Chimaev was set to do battle with Diaz in the final outing of his UFC career at UFC 279 tonight, but missed weight by 7.5lb which sees him now take on Kevin Holland in the co-main event

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Khamzat Chimaev has controversial friendship with Vladimir Putin's warlord ally

Chimaev's relationship with Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya and Putin's ally, has surfaced again before his fight with Kevin Holland at UFC 279

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Nate Diaz offers to fight Khamzat Chimaev backstage after rival missed weight

Diaz was set to face Chimaev in the final fight of his UFC career at UFC 279 but he will now face replacement Tony Ferguson after the Chechen star missed weight

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Nate Diaz fight UK time: Start time for Tony Ferguson fight at UFC 279

Diaz will now fight Ferguson and in the main event of UFC 279 after Khamzat Chimaev missed weight, with the Chechen being booked to face Kevin Holland in the co-headliner

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Khamzat Chimaev dismisses UFC 279 weight miss questions, vows to ‘f*ck up’ Kevin Holland

Khamzat Chimaev didn't have much to say about his weigh-in issues, but didn't mince words about Kevin Holland.

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Khamzat Chimaev booed by UFC fans after missing weight for Nate Diaz fight

Chimaev was over half a stone heavy for his fight with Nate Diaz and will now take on Kevin Holland in the main event at UFC 279

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‘Fight game is wild’: Twitter reacts to new UFC 279 main card matchups

Read what the MMA world had to say about the new UFC 279 lineup.

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UFC 279 matchup shuffle: Nate Diaz headlines vs. Tony Ferguson, Khamzat Chimaev faces Kevin Holland in co-main

Multiple last-minute changes were made to the UFC 279 pay-per-view event after Khamzat Chimaev missed weight Friday morning.

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Nate Diaz to fight Tony Ferguson at UFC 279 as Khamzat Chimaev bout is cancelled

Diaz was scheduled to fight Chimaev in the UFC 279 headliner but the Chechen missed weight by 7.5lb and Ferguson will serve as his new opponent

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Jake Paul hits out at Dana White over UFC 279 chaos

UFC 279 has been thrown into disarray for a multitude of reasons

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Jake Paul hits out at Dana White after Nate Diaz vs Khamzat Chimaev is cancelled

Chimaev was overweight for his fight with Diaz with the fight pulled from the UFC 279 card and both men handed new opponent's for tonight's card

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UFC heavyweight fails to make weight after scaling over 266lb limit

Barnett was the final fighter to weigh in for the UFC 279 card and was one of FIVE fighters who failed to make the limit for the card in Las Vegas

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Khamzat Chimaev flips middle finger and mocks his own failure to make weight

Chimaev's stepped on the scale 7.5lb overweight for his UFC 279 clash with Nate Diaz and the Chechen flipped off reporters after his weight miss

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Khamzat Chimaev misses weight for UFC 279 fight with Nate Diaz

Chimaev needed to weigh-in at no more than 171b for his welterweight fight with Diaz at UFC 279, but he came in 7.5lb overweight

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Nate Diaz told he is "out of his mind" ahead of fight against Khamzat Chimaev

UFC veteran Diaz thinks he is being out to dry against Chimaev in his final fight for the promotion this Saturday, but has insisted he is the better fighter of the two

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Andreas Michael says Khamzat Chimaev gave Kevin Holland ‘a boot in the chest’ in UFC 279 melee

"Khamzat went inside by himself, then it started with Kevin Holland. He gave him like a boot in the chest."

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100-person brawl breaks out as Dana White is forced to cancel UFC 279 press conference

Khamzat Chimaev and Nate Diaz were due to address the media for the last time before their fight this weekend

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Dana White describes scene of backstage melee at UFC 279 press conference: ‘All hell broke loose’

In over two decades as UFC president Dana White says he's never seen anything like what happened Thursday.

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What is Nate Diaz’s legacy? His fellow fighters give their takes before UFC 279

Nate Diaz headlines UFC 279 on Saturday in what is expected to be his final fight in the UFC.

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Israel Adesanya criticises UFC for "feeding" Nate Diaz to Khamzat Chimaev

Diaz will likely part ways with the UFC after facing Chimaev this Saturday and middleweight champion Adesanya has been critical of the matchup

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Nate Diaz admits he gave up training for final UFC fight against Khamzat Chimaev

Diaz will face Chimaev in the final fight of his UFC career on Saturday night after 15 years with the promotion, but admits that he hasn't even been training for the bout

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‘Jake Paul could win’: Nate Diaz weighs in on the Youtuber-turned-boxer’s chances against Anderson Silva

Nate Diaz isn't counting out either competitor in the upcoming boxing match between Jake Paul and former UFC champ Anderson Silva.

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How UFC’s Best Handle Losing, Bruising and Cruising Inside the Octagon

Top-billed bouts lay bare the spectrum of emotions each and every fight night—and Saturday’s UFC 279 should prove no different.

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Chimaev Predicting Quick Finish of Diaz at UFC 279

Chimaev is respectful of Diaz's stature ahead of Saturday's clash but more confident in producing a dominant performance.

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Nate Diaz keeps future plans cryptic ahead of UFC 279: ‘It’s only the halftime show’

After over a two-hour delay, Nate Diaz took eight minutes of questions before he called his media day off.

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