Unbeaten middleweight contender, Khamzat Chimaev has as soon as extra hit out at Sean Strickland and his tumultuous relationship along with his late father — after the incoming UFC 312 headliner hit out at him for his affiliation with Chechen dictator, Ramzan Kadyrov.
Strickland, the present primary ranked middleweight contender, returns to motion this weekend at UFC 312 in Sydney, taking over incumbent divisional champion, Dricus du Plessis within the pair’s grudge match ‘Downunder.
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As for Khamzat Chimaev, the Chechen-born contender has been sidelined since October of final 12 months, enhancing to 14-0 in a primary spherical face crank submission win over former champion, Robert Whittaker within the co-headliner of UFC 208 in Abu Dhabi.
And tipped to struggle for gold in opposition to the victor of this weekend’s conflict between du Plessis and Strickland, Chimaev was ripped as soon as extra by the latter for his affiliation with Chechnya head of state, Kadyrov this week by the outspoken American challenger.
“Look at the history of (Khamzat) Chimaev, he flees his country and goes to Sweden and has this nice prosperous life with all the normal folks and then he goes back to Chechnya or wherever the f–k he’s from and he goes and gets balls deep with this dictator [Ramzan Kadyrov],” Sean Strickland stated. “The dictator is like ‘Here’s a G-wagon go train my kid and let my kid beat you up’ and Chimaev’s like ‘I signed up to be a prostitute, but you’re going too deep here’…now he has some fear for his life from this dictator, and he’s still owned….you have no dignity and you have no character.”
Khamzat Chimaev mocks Sean Strickland’s relationship with late father
Nonetheless, reacting to Strickland’s feedback on his personal social media, Chimaev poked enjoyable on the former champion’s estranged relationship along with his late father, with a nasty jibe aimed on the latter.
“Why are you baby crying all the time?” Khamzat Chimaev wrote on his official X account. “Father didn’t give you love, or he showed his love to you too much?”
