Khamzat Chimaev and Robbie Lawler Are Actually Wrestling, and the Simulation is Broken

Khamzat Chimaev has officially made weight for his co-main event clash against Robbie Lawler, confirming that we are indeed getting a wrestling match between a 44-year-old retired striker and a terrifying Swedish national champion.

The weigh-in for RAF 14 makes this fever dream of a matchup a reality. If you had this specific crossover event on your 2026 combat sports bingo card, you are either a time traveler or you need to be studied by science.

"MMA Fighting reported Chimaev making weight for the RAF 14 co-main event."

Let us do some quick math for context. Lawler is a UFC Hall of Famer who retired from mixed martial arts in 2023 after flatlining Niko Price at UFC 290. His wrestling credentials consist of being an all-state high schooler in Iowa a quarter-century ago. Chimaev is a three-time Swedish national wrestling champion who is already 2-0 in Real American Freestyle with dominant wins over Dillon Danis and Tyron Woodley.

Booking a 44-year-old brawler to grapple a guy who recently lost his UFC middleweight title to Sean Strickland and is taking out his frustrations on the mat is objectively hilarious. It is like asking a retired baseball slugger to compete in a spelling bee against a dictionary. The oddsmakers setting the lines for this Fox Nation broadcast probably just stared at a wall for an hour before throwing their hands up.

The spectacle goes down October 23 at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas. Whether Lawler can channel his Iowa roots to survive the onslaught or Chimaev just ragdolls another legend, it is exactly the kind of chaotic theater we cannot look away from.