{"id":845064,"date":"2026-08-03T22:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/845064\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:20:08","slug":"sean-strickland-and-khamzat-chimaev-spoiled-ufc-blood-feud-with-bro-hugs-handshakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/845064\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland and Khamzat Chimaev spoiled UFC \u2018blood feud\u2019 with bro hugs, handshakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThey talked about killing each other and all this stuff, and then that was buried,\u201d retired UFC heavyweight and current analyst Daniel Cormier said on his YouTube channel<\/a>. \u201cI thought to myself, \u2018Okay, this thing\u2019s over\u2019 because you cannot sell a rematch or any type of rivalry between these two because you almost pulled the curtain back. We know bad blood between these two equates to a really good fight and honestly, the fight wasn\u2019t bad. Strickland pretty much controlled the fight with his jab, and Sean fought a great fight that night. Khamzat never got started, but we\u2019d be like, \u2018Oh my goodness, they\u2019re at it again. Two dudes that hate each other are going to fight again,\u2019 if we did not get that moment in Newark, a moment we didn\u2019t really need. It was unnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to bury the hatchet, especially when the guy you beat for the belt is so dominant against everyone else that there\u2019s a really strong chance that he\u2019ll work his way back to a championship opportunity,\u201d Cormier added. \u201cWhen (Strickland) tells you that it\u2019s not real, \u2018I was selling a fight,\u2019 you believe him. He does not sugarcoat anything and that\u2019s why people love him. I would watch those two fight every day of the week because I love the fight within the fight. To the general fan, how do we get them to believe it, when the ultimate truth speaker in our league has told us he doesn\u2019t really hate him as much as it may seem? They\u2019re not going to be able to sell it on a blood feud like they did last time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey talked about killing each other and all this stuff, and then that was buried,\u201d retired UFC heavyweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,208767,702],"class_list":["post-845064","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-328","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845064","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=845064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}