Rising more and more pissed off at an apparently fleeting title shot promise from the promotion, Khamzat Chimaev has ripped an assault on former titleholder, Sean Strickland at UFC 297 – pointing to prior dominant gymnasium wins over the current major occasion star.
Chimaev, the present quantity 9 ranked middleweight contender, most just lately turned in a detailed, majority choice win over former undisputed welterweight champion and former pound-for-pound primary, Kamaru Usman within the pair’s short-notice co-main occasion conflict at UFC 294 again in October.
And initially slated to make his return on the Abu Dhabi, UAE card in an officially-billed title-eliminator combat in opposition to former title challenger, Paulo Costa by UFC CEO, Dana White, Chimaev has since gone scorched-earth on the promotional boss, claiming he broke a promise of giving him a title combat in his return to the Octagon.
“All these guys combat me, however I’m not the one one undefeated and undisputed,” Khamzat Chimaev advised ESPN MMA. “13-0, so I don’t know. They [the UFC] promised me after [the] (Kamaru) Usman combat, ‘You’ll for positive going to combat for the title’, and I win that combat. I don’t know what’s happening. I heard Dana White say stuff like, ‘I don’t assume Khamzat is subsequent for the title.’ That’s bullsh*t, man.”
“If you happen to promised me one thing, you need to reply on your phrases,” Khamzat Chimaev defined. “I’m the man who at all times solutions for my phrases so I don’t care if it’s some president or one thing, like a king. If you happen to give me your phrase, you need to reply for that. So, I develop up, after I give phrase, you need to reply for it… We’re doing that. I might be completely happy to reply for my phrase about killing them, man. So, we’ll see – possibly within the USA, it’s a special mentally.”
Sean Strickland receives flak from Khamzat Chimaev
And reflecting on Strickland’s loss to newly-crowned champion, Dricus du Plessis and the previous’s reluctance to supply him a title combat if he received at UFC 297 final weekend, Chimaev pointed to obvious dominant gymnasium wins over the previous champion.
“Ask that man (Sean Strickland), who was beating him up each day within the gymnasium,” Khamzat Chimaev defined. “What number of occasions I submit that man? What number of occasions I beat him up. He went to his coach, ‘Please, inform the man, man, go straightforward, go straightforward.’ And the man stated I went loopy with some man who was 166 [pounds] or this sh*t. He’s mendacity, man. He’s making an attempt to say I’m this, I’m that. He’s making an attempt to be some macho man. You aren’t a macho man.”
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