UFC middleweight champ Khamzat Chimaev signs with RAF

Khamzat Chimaev signed with Real American Freestyle weeks before his first UFC title defense, as announced during the RAF 8 broadcast on Saturday. The UFC middleweight champion, Khamzat Chimaev, is expected to debut at RAF 10 in St. Louis on June 13. He is slated to defend his title against Sean Strickland in the UFC 328 main event on May 9 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. At RAF 8, Arman Tsarukyan defeated Urijah Faber by technical fall, 13-1, and has been active in RAF while sidelined from the UFC lightweight title picture. Chimaev enters at 15-0 after dethroning Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 319 last year. This report summarizes the announcements and scheduled dates only.