MMAJunkie<\/a>).<\/p>\n\u201cThe sh*tty thing is that whoever wins is going to have bragging rights, and whoever doesn\u2019t is just going to have to f*cking eat sh*t until they die,\u201d Strickland said. \u201cThat\u2019s the worst thing about this fight. Say I go fight \u2018Fluffy\u2019 (Hernandez) and \u2018Fluffy\u2019 beats me, I raise his hand, I say you beat me, good job. Dricus (Du Plessis) beat me, I raise his hand, you beat me. But nah dude, I think me and \u2018Cum shot,\u2019 we die enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Strickland earned a title shot after stopping top contender Anthony Hernandez in the UFC Houston main event. Strickland turned in a stellar performance that was capped off with a knee to the body followed by ground and pound.<\/p>\n
Chimaev hasn\u2019t competed since dethroning Dricus du Plessis to capture the 185-pound gold back in Aug. 2025. \u201cBorz\u201d had almost 22 minutes of control time on his way to a unanimous decision win. Of course, that means the Strickland fight will be Chimaev\u2019s first title defense.<\/p>\n
Do you think things will get too out of hand in the buildup to Khamzat Chimaev vs. Sean Strickland? Are you expecting a post-fight brawl similar to the one following Khabib Nurmagomedov\u2019s submission win over Conor McGregor? Tell us in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland doesn\u2019t believe he\u2019ll make amends with Khamzat Chimaev even after UFC 328. Strickland is scheduled to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-639032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639032","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=639032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}