Khamzat Chimaev answers Sean Strickland’s attack, leaks comic secret
Past UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland insists that Khamzat Chimaev is not worthy of getting a chance to contend for the title. Chimaev replied by leaking a 2022-born secret.
‘Ask that guy (Strickland) who was beating him up every day in the gym,’ Chimaev said to ESPN MMA.
‘How many times I submit that guy? How many times I beat him up? He went to his coach, “Please, tell the guy man, go easy, go easy.”
‘And the guy said I went crazy with some guy who was 166 (pounds) or this sh*t.. He’s lying, man! He’s trying to say I am this, I am that. He’s trying to be some macho man. You are not a macho man!
‘When I punched you hard, you went to your coach and said, “Please, tell this guy to go easy.”
‘No, f*ck off man, what are you talking about? I beat you up. You were running from me. I’ve been in his home, his gym.
‘Nobody never comes to my gym and tries to beat me up… I went to all these guys, all these gyms. I’m not scared of anyone. I beat up everyone. I don’t remember losing sparring… I always win.’
Both men trained at Xtreme Couture in those days and engaged in several sparring sessions. However, is it possible that Strickland might have gotten better at the art since then? Maybe a future meeting in the octagon will settle this confusion?