The UFC wisely plans to have tons of security on hand for UFC 328 fight week when Sean Strickland and Khamzat Chimaev are around. But they can’t stop the two from potentially killing each other in the streets!
In a new video on social media, Strickland actually lamented the fact that Chimaev passed on the chance to have a pre-fight rumble in public. “Tarzan” spent the day in Newport Beach, California trying to get the Chechen fighter’s attention with a bunch of Instagram tags.
“I generally don’t post
my location or my whereabouts, I don’t really drop pins where I’m at,” Strickland said. “I just don’t like to. But I was on Instagram and some stupid s–t popped up in my feed about Chimaev saying you’ll try to fight me or kill me in the streets.”
“Dude, I was like ten minutes from your gym,” he continued. “I was dropping tags and locations all day on my Instagram. Your homies that train with you follow me. They were seeing my stories. You had to know where I was at. Ten minutes from your gym, brah, probably right down the street from you. I thought, part of me thought you’d show up. But we all know with [Paulo] Costa when he called your card, ‘Hold me back, hold me back!'”
Strickland is referring to an incident at the UFC PI from three years ago when Chimaev tried to start something with Paulo Costa, only to get dragged away by training partners.
In this case with Strickland, Chimaev gave an interview in Russian where he was asked if he’d try to kill Sean over the disrespectful things he’s said.
“I don’t want to kill a man. Haram,” Khamzat replied. “Out in the streets, it’s different. If he dies, he dies. But in the cage, it’s a sport.”
Out in the streets is different because that’s where Sean Strickland is always armed with at least one gun. In a not so subtle reminder of that fact, Strickland filmed this latest video in front of a wall of automatic rifles.
“I’m like the last dude in America you should threaten,” Strickland said. “But I guess if you don’t show up, you don’t show up.”
