{"id":579355,"date":"2026-04-01T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579355\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:42:08","slug":"sean-strickland-vs-khamzat-chimaev-gym-matchup-wasnt-competitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579355\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland vs. Khamzat Chimaev gym matchup \u2018wasn\u2019t competitive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m not giving him a chance,\u201d Covington told <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xEBMqWOCqwA?si=T5KvkfJpytIsCY1o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submission Radio<\/a>. \u201cHernandez and Khamzat are completely different levels of grapplers and the way they approach their strategies. So, I think Khamzat\u2019s going to take him down and submit him. \u2018Schmo\u2019 went and watched them spar back at Xtreme Couture a couple of years ago, and he pretty much said it wasn\u2019t competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Covington is referring to media personality \u201cThe Schmo\u201d who frequently interviews fighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cKhamzat was just taking him down and submitting him, so I expect that same damn plan,\u201d Covington continued. \u201cHe\u2019s not going to be stupid and strike with Sean and make it a kickboxing fight. He\u2019s just going to make it straight grappling, and I think he\u2019s going to put Strickland in some really bad positions and either submit him or just hold him down for 25 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m not giving him a chance,\u201d Covington told Submission Radio. \u201cHernandez and Khamzat are completely different levels of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,1647],"class_list":["post-579355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}