{"id":768551,"date":"2026-06-29T21:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768551\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:24:12","slug":"the-sooner-this-hapens-the-easier-it-will-be-to-breathe-khamzat-chimaev-sends-warning-to-sean-strickland-to-accept-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768551\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The sooner this hapens, the easier it will be to breathe\u2019: Khamzat Chimaev sends warning to Sean Strickland to accept rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Khamzat Chimaev wants his runback with Sean Strickland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Chimaev lost the middleweight title to Strickland in a very close decision at UFC 328 in May. Despite UFC CEO Dana White saying after the fight that Chimaev told him he wanted to move up to light heavyweight, Chimaev\u2019s message since the first loss of his career has been quite clear: He wants his second opportunity to face Strickland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">That message continued on Monday with another social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cAccept the fight, don\u2019t run, I\u2019ll beat you anyway,\u201d Chimaev wrote to Strickland on Twitter. \u201cThe sooner this happens, the easier it will be to breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Chimaev dominated Dricus du Plessis in a completely lopsided affair to win the title at UFC 319 in August 2025. \u201cBorz\u201d earned his shot with a teeth-shattering submission of Robert Whittaker at UFC 308 in October 2024, and is now 15-1 as a pro after dropping the decision to Strickland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As a far as Strickland goes, all he\u2019s shared with fans in regards to his next move is that he\u2019s targeting December to get back in the octagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev wants his runback with Sean Strickland. Chimaev lost the middleweight title to Strickland in a very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-768551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768551","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=768551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}