Paulo Costa says he wants to fight Khamzat Chimaev ‘badly’
Paulo Costa calling Khamzat Chimaev after his win wasn’t a surprise, as he called him out at media day.
Costa says he wants to fight Chimaev and hurt him for everything he has done.
“I want to fight him very badly,” Costa said at the UFC 318 media day. “I want to hurt him. It doesn’t matter if he won the fight or not; it doesn’t matter. We need to fight. He talked very bad things about me to my girl on Instagram DM’s. This is totally personal. I feel angry just to hear his name, so we need to fight. … I’m going to do my best Saturday, if God gives me the victory because he controls everything, but I’m pretty sure I’ll get the victory and I’ll call his name. It doesn’t matter if he wins or not. This fight will only not happen if he retires.”
“Dirty things,” Costa said about Khamzat Chimaev. “Like, ‘You should look for a better man.’ Something like that, you know. Dirty things, dirty things. These are not things a real man, a confident man, ought to do. Why he messaged her? Why he didn’t message me? Coward. He is a coward.”
With Costa beating Kopylov on Saturday, he is likely a win away from a potential fight with Chimaev.