Khamzat Chimaev
Sean Strickland
Conversation History
“That will be funny [a fight against Strickland]. Funny interviews, like a lot of things going to happen about that as well. But he lost a lot of fights, he has to win one fight...He lost against the guy [Dricus du Plessis], who I beat, like I destroyed five rounds. That’s why he has to win one fight. But if they give him [the title shot], who cares?”
– via ESPN MMA expressing his opinion about Sean Strickland's Title Shot
“Middleweight division is on f***ing ice, dude. You got Chimaev the w****. He has ramadan, then he has a surgery, then he's gonna fight Nassourdine in a year and just dry hump Nassourdine, then he's going to go back home and kiss the dictator, maybe his ovaries are hurting. The middleweight division doesn't exist, I'd be better off trying to fight for the 205 belt now that the middleweight belt, it don't exist anymore.”
– commenting on Khamzat Chimaev's delayed return and criticism of the middleweight division.
“When we used to train together, he was normal. Well, one time I got angry with him and the next day he was walking around the gym with a gun, he thought I’d attack him. We had a group chat for our gym, there was one guy from Chechnya in it and [Strickland] wrote something like, ‘I thought all Chechen’s are strong?’ And I wrote him back, ‘You’re an American chicken, I’ll beat you up.”
– via Badaev podcast