Episode 660: Who the Hell Is Nassourdine Imavov?

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Honestly, Nassourdine Imavov is pretty legit. He’s 16-4 (1) overall, riding a three-fight win streak and heads into Saturday’s UFC Fight Night main event against Caio Borralho fresh off a February victory over Israel Adesanya. He was the UFC’s No. 1 middleweight contender until voters recently had to make room for Dricus Du Plessis. So, why does nobody seem to know (or care) who he is? Good news for Imavov: if he beats Borralho this weekend, he’ll likely be one of only two men in line for a shot at newly crowned champ Khamzat Chimaev. Would a highlight-reel finish in Paris finally be enough to make fans remember his name? Also on this episode: you guys go hard on Luke Rockhold for getting folded up like a lawn chair by Darren Till, the Bigi Boy wins Dirty Boxing’s pizza box-ass belt and Jon Jones is [checks notes] legally vindicated! For now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast.
0:10.9	And now your host, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.
0:18.3	That's right. You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
0:25.0	I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists and for the last 13 years.
0:32.8	We've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and occasionally
0:39.0	wonderful world of mixed martial arts.
0:41.3	And Ben, we had a little bit of everything over the weekend in the world of combat sports.
0:47.5	It's a little bit of wild, a little bit of weird, maybe even a little bit of woolly.
0:52.0	I don't know.
0:53.5	Oh, yeah.
0:54.0	I mean, look, when Misfits puts on one of their boxing event kind of things,
0:58.9	they don't get out of there without getting a little bit woolly.
1:03.0	Yeah.
1:03.3	You know?
1:03.8	Very little of the weekend's action actually had to do with MMA.
1:08.1	But I suppose that's the world we're living in in the year of our Lord 2025 when the
1:12.8	UFC does not have an event.
1:14.8	You mentioned misfits boxing.
1:17.4	Darren Till damn near folded Luke Rockhold in half backwards in the main event of
1:24.0	misfits boxing.
1:25.1	Tony Ferguson finally got a win, albeit over somebody named the Salt
1:29.2	Poppy. So I don't know how relevant you can consider that. But you thought it was going to be
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