Michael Chandler needs to ‘shut up’

Form of how The Rock would say it, Islam Makhachev would love Michael Chandler to know his function and shut his mouth.

Makhachev (22-1 MMA, 11-1 UFC) made that very clear Monday when he responded to criticism from Chandler (23-7 MMA, 2-2 UFC) on Twitter. In an interview with MMA Fighting, Chandler knocked Makhachev’s resume.

“He hasn’t actually fought anyone,” Chandler mentioned. “That’s actually the reality.”

It’s true that Makhachev is about to fight Charles Oliveira for the vacant lightweight title at UFC 280 on the power of a TKO victory over unranked Bobby Green after Beneil Dariush withdrew from the scheduled matchup this previous February. Previous to that, Makhachev’s biggest win was against Dan Hooker, who’s been on a downswing having misplaced 4 of his previous 5 fights, together with to Makhachev.

Nonetheless, Makhachev is on a 10-fight profitable streak that dates again to September 2016, and he believes he’s rightfully getting a title shot subsequent month in Abu Dhabi.

So after listening to Chandler’s phrases, Makhachev fired again.

Haha., your solely two win [sic] in UFC is Hooker who got here out of loss, and Tony who has 5 losses within the row now.,” Makhachev tweeted, “please shut up and keep in line ”

To Makhachev’s level about Chandler, the previous Bellator light-weight champion is 2-2 since becoming a member of the UFC, with wins over Hooker and Tony Ferguson by brutal front-kick knockout this previous Could at UFC 274. On the heels of beating Hooker by TKO, Chandler acquired a vacant title shot towards Oliveira and lost by second-round TKO after profitable the primary spherical. Chandler’s different UFC loss was within the 2021 Fight of the Year towards Justin Gaethje, who took a unanimous determination after a three-round struggle.

If Makhachev wins gold at UFC 280 and Chandler beats Dustin Poirier in November at UFC 281, it simply would possibly set up a title showdown between the 2 males.