Full card as MMA\u2019s most heated rivalry set to explode<\/a><\/p>\nHowever, American UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell later alleged in an Instagram post that he doesn\u2019t believe Chimaev actually made weight, claiming the scale was still moving when the announcer declared he was 185 pounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know what it looks like when somebody makes that weight. They have to stand completely still. The little thingumabob on the scale, it has to balance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat dude didn\u2019t make that weight. There\u2019s no convincing me, bro.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all bulls***, dude. That is not what it looks like when somebody makes weight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later during the ceremonial weigh-in, Strickland sprayed his opponent in an R-rated rant, calling Chimaev a \u201ccheat\u201d and a \u201cp***y\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis f***ing coward tried to f***ing kick me in the nuts (during Friday\u2019s press conference) like a f***ing p***y,\u201d Strickland yelled.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re a f***ing punk b***h. This f***ing b***h didn\u2019t even make weight, you cheating f***.<\/p>\n
\u201cF*** you, you son of a w***e, b***h.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere on Saturday AEST, lightweight veteran Jeremy Stephens tipped the scales at 160 pounds, missing the mark for his non-title bout against King Green by four pounds.<\/p>\n
In the co-main event, Josh Van will put his flyweight title on the line against unbeaten Japanese contender Tatsuro Taira.<\/p>\n
FULL CARD<\/p>\n
Main card<\/p>\n
Khamzat Chimaev vs Sean Strickland (middleweight title)<\/p>\n
Joshua Van vs Tatsuro Taira (flyweight title)<\/p>\n
Alexander Volkov vs Waldo Cortes-Acosta (heavyweight)<\/p>\n
Sean Brady vs Joaquin Buckley (welterweight)<\/p>\n
King Green vs Jeremy Stephens (lightweight)<\/p>\n
Prelims<\/p>\n
Ateba Gautier vs Ozzy Diaz (middleweight)<\/p>\n
Joel Alvarez vs Yaroslav Amosov (welterweight)<\/p>\n
Grant Dawson vs Mateusz Rebecki (lightweight)<\/p>\n
Jim Miller vs Jared Gordon (lightweight)<\/p>\n
Early prelims<\/p>\n
Roman Kopylov vs Marco Tulio (middleweight)<\/p>\n
Pat Sabatini vs William Gomis (featherweight)<\/p>\n
Baisangur Susurkaev vs Djorden Santos (middleweight)<\/p>\n
Clayton Carpenter vs Jose Ochoa (flyweight)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev and Sean Strickland both made weight ahead of their UFC middleweight championship bout, but the official…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-657473","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\/657473","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=657473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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