{"id":641592,"date":"2026-04-30T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641592\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:53:08","slug":"khamzat-chimaev-fires-back-at-sean-strickland-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641592\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev fires back at Sean Strickland threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With less than 10 days until fight night, the trash talk has taken a wild turn. Strickland recently claimed he\u2019d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/439824\/sean-strickland-ready-to-pull-my-gun-on-khamzat-chimaevs-entourage-ill-shoot-each-and-every-one-of-you\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bring a gun to fight week and would use it<\/a> if Chimaev and his team \u201ctried anything,\u201d escalating things far beyond typical pre-fight antics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cClowns always talk,\u201d Chimaev told media during a UFC 328 scrum in Newport Beach, Calif. \u201cBro, he hasn\u2019t shot any chickens in the world, how is he going to shoot a human? I don\u2019t think the guy wants a war outside the cage; if he wanted it, he\u2019d be dead already\u2026Bro, in New Jersey, this is a Muslim community, it\u2019s my home, so I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to come out with a gun there. Otherwise, there would be a lot of people in jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While the rhetoric continues to escalate, \u201cBorz\u201d admits there\u2019s a silver lining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI love it,\u201d Chimaev said. \u201cI love the UFC, I love Sean Strickland and what he\u2019s talking about \u2014 making a big fight, letting me make money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At this point, it\u2019s clear the hostility won\u2019t cool anytime soon \u2014 and if this is any indication, UFC 328 fight week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/428722\/dana-white-nervous-about-khamzat-chimaev-vs-strickland-feud-at-ufc-328-how-much-security-you-think-were-gonna-need\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">could get even more chaotic<\/a> and NSFW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the latest UFC 328 fight card and rumors click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/428701\/ufc-328-card-start-time-date-and-location-khamzat-vs-strickland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With less than 10 days until fight night, the trash talk has taken a wild turn. Strickland recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,14855],"class_list":["post-641592","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-ufc-on-paramount","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641592","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=641592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}