{"id":495004,"date":"2026-02-23T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495004\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:46:09","slug":"clown-show-unimpressed-nassourdine-imavov-mocks-sean-strickland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495004\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Clown\u2019 show! Unimpressed Nassourdine Imavov mocks Sean Strickland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\/421479\/mario-bautista-kyoji-horiguchi-promoted-ufc-vegas-113-rankings-update-rizvan-kuniev-shakes-up-heavyweight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 2-ranked<\/a> Nassourdine Imavov started piling on through social media:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Imavov also called Strickland vs. Chimaev a \u201cwaste of time\u201d because \u201cTarzan\u201d would get \u201ctapped fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cListen dude, I\u2019ve moved past you,\u201d Strickland fired back in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9guJP2uz5b8?si=XnZokGJuXYo2iui_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full Send MMA<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve beat you, relax. Either you get the belt or I get the belt. Once you get the belt, I\u2019ll take it from you. Once I get the belt, you\u2019ll lose to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So \u2026 who\u2019s ready for Strickland vs. Imavov 2?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 2-ranked Nassourdine Imavov started piling on through social media: Imavov also called Strickland vs. Chimaev a \u201cwaste&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,37644,139445,702,7788],"class_list":["post-495004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}