Former middleweight title challenger Paulo Costa snapped a two-fight losing streak with an impressive unanimous decision win over Roman Kopylov in the UFC 318 co-main event last Saturday.
During his UFC 318 post-fight interview, Costa went after undefeated Khamzat Chimaev.
“Everybody knows that I hate that guy. Everybody knows who. That motherf***er Khamzat Chimaev. He’s a big a**hole,” Costa said to the crowd inside Smoothie King Center. “Chimaev, you are a coward. And I’m here and I’m going to look for you. I’m going to chase for you, and I will not stop until I get to you.”
He continued his attacks on “Borz” during an interview with Submission radio on Wednesday.
“Khamzat, he’s a coward. He’s a c*nt. He’s a c*nt. He has no courage to ever, ever, ever, never, send a message for me,” Costa said. “He will never talk to me directly. He will never look me in the eyes because he’s a coward. People need to understand that. Or he so f**king fear my presence. I know that since the very first moment that I met him.”
Costa and Chimaev regularly trade jabs on social media but things got personal when Costa accused the Chechen of sending his wife private messages.
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“My wife is over here. He DM’d her. This is not good. This is a bad thing in every culture. He said bad things about me, about her, but he never sent to me because he’s a coward,” Costa said following his UFC 318 win.
A fight between the two would be a grudge match, but their careers are in different places at the moment. Costa is currently ranked No. 11 in the middleweight division. Chimaev is ranked No. 3 and is scheduled to fight for the championship against titleholder Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 319 on Aug. 16 at the United Center in Chicago.
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