{"id":695463,"date":"2026-05-26T10:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695463\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:24:24","slug":"khamzat-chimaev-suggests-nationality-cost-him-ufc-328-decision-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695463\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev suggests nationality cost him UFC 328 decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/khamzat-chimaev\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khamzat Chimaev<\/a> posted and then removed a tweet suggesting his split-decision loss to Sean Strickland at UFC 328 was influenced by his nationality, according to Sherdog.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/middleweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">middleweight<\/a> contender reportedly wrote that he was robbed against Strickland because he&#8217;s not American, though the exact wording of the original post could not be verified before deletion. Chimaev followed up with a separate tweet calling for a rematch with Strickland, writing &#8220;Next time somebody has to be dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chimaev calls out Strickland for rematch<\/p>\n<p>In a post that remains live, Chimaev wrote &#8220;I&#8217;m waiting tell me when you&#8217;re ready @SStricklandMMA,&#8221; per the report. He also posted &#8220;No excuses I just wanna f*ck him up. This sh*t trying to run away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chimaev dropped a unanimous decision to Strickland in the UFC 328 co-main event on February 15 in Las Vegas. Two judges scored the fight 48-47 for Strickland while one had it 48-47 for Chimaev. The loss snapped Chimaev&#8217;s 13-fight win streak and marked his first setback since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>No rematch has been announced. Strickland has not publicly responded to Chimaev&#8217;s callout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Khamzat-Chimaev-indicates-he-was-robbed-at-UFC-328-in-sincedeleted-tweet-201312\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sherdog.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev posted and then removed a tweet suggesting his split-decision loss to Sean Strickland at UFC 328&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-695463","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\/695463","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=695463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}