{"id":620098,"date":"2026-04-20T22:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620098\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:46:11","slug":"sean-strickland-gets-cold-warning-from-khamzat-chimaevs-teammate-against-escalating-feud-ahead-of-ufc-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620098\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland gets cold warning from Khamzat Chimaev&#8217;s teammate against escalating feud ahead of UFC 328"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC will have an excruciatingly difficult time keeping Sean Strickland and Khamzat Chimaev apart in the days before UFC 328.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest fights of the year features UFC middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev defending his belt for the first time against former titleholder Sean Strickland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/sean-strickland\/sean-strickland-stupidity-surprise-title-shot-against-khamzat-chimaev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at UFC 328 next month<\/a>. A few years removed from the two brash personalities training together at Xtreme Couture, tensions are extremely high ahead of their highly anticipated showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Chimaev and Strickland have traded barbs for months leading up to UFC 328. Strickland, known for his at times controversial comments on his opponents, has repeatedly referred to Chimaev as a \u2018terrorist\u2019, intensifying their feud.<\/p>\n<p>Things took a new turn in recent days when Strickland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/sean-strickland-warns-khazmat-chimaev-over-street-fight-threat-ten-minutes-from-your-gym-bro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued a public street fight challenge<\/a> to Chimaev ahead of UFC 328. After Chimaev had apparently declined Strickland\u2019s offer, one of the middleweight champ\u2019s top teammates shared a chilling reason as to why.<\/p>\n<p>Arman Tsarukyan cautions Sean Strickland after \u2018street fight\u2019 challenge to Khamzat Chimaev<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RedCorner_MMA\/status\/2046185369293435175?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Adam Zubayraev<\/a>, Tsarukyan responded to Strickland\u2019s latest \u2018street fight\u2019 threats.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith people like Strickland, issues aren\u2019t settled on the streets,\u201d Tsarukyan said of Strickland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they wanted to settle it on the streets, it would have been done a long time ago. There\u2019s just a task at hand from a sporting perspective because with people like Strickland, issues aren\u2019t settled on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he were somewhere in Russia, understood our ways and our customs, he wouldn\u2019t be acting like this.\u201d (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/mma\/news-he-acting-like-this-arman-tsarukyan-says-sean-strickland-act-differently-understood-russian-customs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SportsKeeda<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Tsarukyan is expected to be a key presence in Chimaev\u2019s final preparations for UFC 328, potentially serving as his cornerman for the Strickland fight. UFC CEO Dana White has repeatedly emphasized the promotion\u2019s crowded security presence to keep Strickland and Chimaev apart in Newark, including the possibility of not holding a ceremonial weigh-in faceoff.<\/p>\n<p>What is your prediction for Khamzat Chimaev vs. Sean Strickland? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC will have an excruciatingly difficult time keeping Sean Strickland and Khamzat Chimaev apart in the days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[17501,64,63,786,4120,785,43022,85,787,266293],"class_list":{"0":"post-620098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-arman-tsarukyan","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-khamzat-chimaev","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sean-strickland","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-ufc-328"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620098","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=620098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}