Sean Strickland has lots of ideas about Khamzat Chimaev.
As soon as upon a time, Strickland and Chimaev hung out coaching collectively on the mats of Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas, however that’s lengthy since previous with each males taking pictures at one another by way of the media lately. Nicely, add one other one onto the pile as a result of, on the UFC 312 media day on Wednesday, Strickland went on an unprovoked diatribe towards Chimaev.
“We have to speak about Mr. Chimaev,” Strickland instructed reporters throughout his scrum. “Let’s speak about this f*cking man. I preserve listening to ‘Chimaev this, Chimaev that’ however what’s the historical past and details say about Chimaev? You guys are media, it is best to know this.
“Chimaev fled Chechnya along with his household due to an oppressive, warlord dictator that killed folks indiscriminately. No hate on him, it’s your nation. He goes again to Chechnya and he goes again to Chechnya as a result of anyone desires to purchase him a G-Wagon and he’s like, ‘Oh yeah! I’ll be that whore. I’ll f*cking do it. I’ll bend the knee for you, man. I like f*cking G-Wagons!’ After which what occurs? The leash will get means too tight. The leash will get means too tight, and you already know what? I believe the U.S. authorities seems at him like a terrorist now. Why? As a result of folks get murdered on a regular basis in Chechnya, they usually fully violate human rights.
“So now Chimaev is scared as shit and like, ‘I needed to be a whore however I didn’t need to go full tip.’ No, he f*cking flees to someplace in [the Middle East].”
Chimaev has a long-standing relationship with the Head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, who critics lambast as an abusive dictator and who’s at present underneath sanction by the US for a myriad of human rights abuses. Chimaev reportedly relocated to Abu Dhabi in an effort to clean his visa points with the US.
Strickland didn’t cease there although, additionally taking pictures at Chimaev for his involvement with a current memecoin.
“Now he’s hiding out … and now what does he do? He has a Bitcoin f*cking rip-off and he scams all of his followers,” Strickland mentioned. “Let me inform you one thing, I had the identical Bitcoin rip-off supply to me. It was like $100,000-$200,000. I used to be like, f*ck you, dude. I’m not going to rip-off my followers. I don’t want cash that unhealthy. However that’s what Chimaev did.
“So yeah, Chimaev, you possibly can struggle. You possibly can struggle. You’ve acquired a beard. However let historical past report it as you sir, are a whore. You fled a rustic, you went again, and you bought buddy-buddy with a dictator and also you fled once more. It doesn’t matter how good of a fighter you might be, you might be and can all the time be a f*cking whore.”
If Chimaev has an issue with Strickland’s phrases, he might quickly have an opportunity to settle issues with “Tarzan.” Strickland challenges Dricus du Plessis for the middleweight title in the primary occasion of UFC 312 this Saturday in Sydney, and the winner is predicted to face Chimaev someday later this yr.
