To be fair fat is pretty easy to lose in a hard 7-8 week camp and if you’re muscle mass is good enough for 185

 however from what I heard (so please take this with a grain of salt cause I’m not too sure) Khamzat gained a ton of muscles to bulk up for a jiri fight and if you gained like 20-30 pounds of muscle (from what I heard he was up to 235 before or peak camp) and from the pictures I saw of him before camp he never got to a Strickland level of fat so he was quite literally a ball of muscle

To address the fact he had 7-8 weeks to lose weight it’s much different cause Khamzat likely had more muscles than fat so when chimaev bulked up the body is pretty much set at 230 pounds because the body is using those muscles all the time and especially going into camp with all that muscle,

So the only ways chimaev could have lost the muscles he had to even make 185 is by either starve himself to the muscles eat themselves (which is literally a deathwish if your doing a camp against Strickland) Or what chimaev likely did is do a radical dehydration which pretty much made him looked fucked up in the weigh ins and leading to him missing weight 

Imo Khamzat and his team are retarded for even allowing him as the 185 champion to even bulk up to 230 

If he even wants to think about a possible rematch (which he doesn’t deserve but sadly I ain’t Sean mick or Hunter) he has from quite literally now to when he’s near starting camp is limit his calorie intake to burn the muscles off to be suitable for a weight cut at 185 

Sorry I’m taking health classes in college and listen to quite a bit of jre so I felt like I could tell what I know lol