MMAFighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen you\u2019re prepared for something and you know it\u2019s coming, it doesn\u2019t surprise you anymore,\u201d Nascimento said. \u201cKhamzat Chimaev hadn\u2019t even seen it. It was only this morning [Wednesday] that we showed him what Sean Strickland had been saying. He watched it, laughed, and we went straight to training. Khamzat Chimaev is handling everything really well. We\u2019ve been talking about all of this for a long time, ever since the fight was starting to come together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nascimento believes Strickland was out of line when he talked about shooting anybody because he doesn\u2019t think the animosity will ever reach that point.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s part of the game, right?\u201d Nascimento said. \u201cBut this whole thing of \u2018I\u2019m going to shoot him\u2019 and all that, I think that\u2019s just nonsense. Nobody is going to take things to that level. It doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Strickland is a proud gun owner and he\u2019s been shown on video protecting his home. It reaches a new level when guns are mentioned during a buildup for a prizefight. That\u2019s why the UFC brass is revving up security for media week ahead of May 9. Many are questioning if there will even be a staredown between Chimaev and Strickland.<\/p>\n
BJPenn.com will be bringing you fight week coverage of UFC 328. Of course, we\u2019ll also provide live results and highlights throughout the event.<\/p>\n
Do you think things could get dangerous before UFC 328, or is it all just talk? Sound off in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev doesn\u2019t appear to be pressed over Sean Strickland\u2019s gun warning ahead of their UFC 328 title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-639362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639362","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=639362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}