Sean
Strickland will try to recapture middleweight gold at UFC 328. |
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Sean
Strickland has serious bad blood with Khamzat
Chimaev.
Strickland (30-7) is scheduled to challenge Chimaev (15-0) for the
middleweight title in the main event at UFC 328
on May 9 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Strickland
and Chimaev’s beef leading up to the fight goes beyond the
customary trash talk.
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Chimaev recently said that Strickland would flee if he confronted
him with his gang, as the former middleweight champion has no
friends. Known for his controversial take on gun control,
Strickland says he would just shoot Chimaev’s gang if they tried to
jump him.
Fighters with even long-standing beefs often bury the hatchet after
sharing the Octagon. However, Strickland doesn’t think he will be
cordial with Chimaev ever. According to Strickland, the loser of
his fight with Chimaev will have to swallow a bitter pill and live
with it forever.
‚We Die Enemies‘
“If you come up to me with three goat-f—-ing Chechnyans that don’t
speak English, I’m going to pull my gun, and I’m going to shoot
each and every one of you,” Strickland told The Mac Life. “The s—y thing is that whoever
wins is gonna have bragging rights, and whoever doesn’t is just
gonna have to eat s—t till they die… I think me and f—-ing Khamzat,
we die enemies.”
Chimaev and Strickland’s beef stems from their short time training
together at the Xtreme Couture gym. While Chimaev claims to have
submitted Strickland, the latter dismisses it as a stray incident
in situational grappling.