{"id":575959,"date":"2026-04-01T21:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575959\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T21:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:30:21","slug":"colby-covington-predicts-brutal-loss-for-sean-strickland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575959\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington Predicts Brutal Loss for Sean Strickland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colby Covington recently delivered a harsh assessment of Sean Strickland<\/a>‘s chances against Khamzat Chimaev<\/a>, predicting the former middleweight champion would have no path to victory in a potential matchup. The prediction highlights a perceived stylistic mismatch between the two fighters.<\/p>\n

Covington’s outlook for Strickland is decidedly negative. During an interview on\u00a0Submission Radio<\/a>,\u00a0the former interim welterweight champion suggested a significant skill gap exists between Strickland and Chimaev.<\/p>\n

Stylistic Concerns for Strickland<\/p>\n

Covington’s prediction centers on what he views as a problematic matchup for Strickland. The assessment suggests Chimaev’s wrestling-heavy approach and physical dominance would overwhelm Strickland’s striking-based game.<\/p>\n

No, I\u2019m not giving him a chance,\u201d Covington said. \u201cHernandez and Khamzat are completely different levels of grapplers and the way they approach their strategies. So, I think Khamzat\u2019s going to take him down and submit him. Schmo went and watched them spar back at Xtreme Couture a couple of years ago, and he pretty much said it wasn\u2019t competitive.<\/p>\n

\u201cKhamzat was just taking him down and submitting him, so I expect that same damn plan. He\u2019s not going to be stupid and strike with Sean and make it a kickboxing fight. He\u2019s just going to make it straight grappling, and I think he\u2019s going to put Strickland in some really bad positions and either submit him or just hold him down for 25 minutes.<\/p>\n

\"EXCLUSIVE:<\/p>\n

EXCLUSIVE: Colby Says He Dominated Arman: “I Took Him Down Many Times!”, Reveals Hunter Phone Call!<\/p>\n

Chimaev hasn\u2019t competed since he won the middleweight gold back in August last year. ‘Borz’ had some heated words exchanged on social media with Strickland, and the two will clash at UFC 328 on May 9th in Newark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colby Covington recently delivered a harsh assessment of Sean Strickland‘s chances against Khamzat Chimaev, predicting the former middleweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,5899,638,35696,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-575959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-khamzat-chimaev","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sean-strickland","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575959","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=575959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}