Mateusz Gamrot is the official backup for Islam vs. Charles.

@Шавкат Рахмонов
NICE! Why not. Have Gamrot fight Charles.

@Шавкат Рахмонов
to be honest, pretty much everybody who fought him knew that. Volk knew that. He dropped Makhachev multiple times. That’s probably why Islam’s striking defense is solid af, to cover for his weak chin. It will take a high level striker like Charles, Volk, Dustin, Gaethje, or Leon Edwards (if they ever fought) to break thru that defense.

The problem is: when that happens, if you broke thru the striking, if you didn’t land that damaging shot, you could get wrestled and that’s not good.

I feel like it’s dangerous to support all my favorite Muslim MMA fighters on the Internet at this current circumstances…

This one caught me by surprise because it’s super unusual for Charles to pull out like that BUT…if this is that location issue he has because it’s in Abu Dhabi again, I would be absolutely disappointed in him and I would lose a huge tons of respect I have with him.

I was actually waiting rather with Costa-Chimaev fight because of Costa’s post surgery with whatever shit he has several weeks ago but I was not expecting the main event to get fucked up like that…

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It’s still a win-win for the rest of us… Volk ACTUALLY puts up more of a challenge for Makhachev than Oliveira. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I had to check my calendar making sure this wasn’t 1st of April.

What the heck is going on.

So Charles accidentally got his eyebrows slashed and had to get it in stitches…………..

Makes sense. It’s only a week away now and wounds like that takes several weeks to heal off.

Also, why Volk tho? He already agreed a fight with Topuria in January and Gamrot already is the official backup for this fight tho wtf.

Can’t say I’m thoroughly disappointed yet excited simultaneously about this fight.

Injuries or mishaps just fucks everybody’s day off.

@Шавкат Рахмонов
That’s what I thought too. When I read “Charles pulled out” I immediately was thinking “Okay Gamrot let’s do it” but then it immediately went to “Islam vs Alex 2” and I’m like “Alex is fighting Topuria in January! HOW?!”

@tehwatever
Let’s just move on from this. Volkanovski is super neccessary opponent for Islam. Their previous fight Islam couldn’t even budge him using his own game and Volk couldn’t finish him because they ran out of time. We felt the fight wasn’t remotely enough.

Imagine these two scenarios tho: if Volk beats Islam, they’ll be even due to him getting beat in his own turf and he will become the 4th guy to be the champ-champ.
And if Islam beats Volk again, Islam would be a menace to him because he is in invincible in his division but keeps losing to a guy above his division.

AAAAH!
If King Kong can make 155
We miss you bradda! Is so different without this guy.

Khamzat’s tweets these past few hours… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Шавкат Рахмонов
I swear to god they MUST face off one day PLEASE GOD.

Apparently, Paulo Costa suffered from a staph infection in his right elbow for him to go surgery 3 weeks ago and now, his doctor told him he will undergo two more surgeries in the next couple weeks and is inelligible to compete.

Ey do you think Kamaru can handle Chimaev’s wrestling?
Are we gonna see a hungry or washed out Nigerian Nightmare in the octagon?

Hol’ up…… is Kamaru even Middleweight? If isn’t, they’ll catchweight again. 🤦

The Brazilians are either cursed in this event… or Khamzat is cursed to fight replacement fighters on a short notice. 🤣

God this is UFC 279 all over again…

@Шавкат Рахмонов
I wanna see Champ Kamaru who was one of the Three African Kings once upon a time.

You know what, just like 279, 294 just got a massive upgrade with these backups.

Volk the #1 P4P and the former #1 P4P Kamaru Usman. However, they were called on a short notice, they’re either not trained enough to prepare for these wrestling monsters like Makhachev and Chimaev.

So USADA will no longer be testing UFC fighters starting January 1.

Bruh…

I chuckled.