Sean Strickland believes the UFC deserves blame if issues get out of hand between him and Khamzat Chimaev.
Strickland is scheduled to problem Chimaev for middleweight gold within the UFC 328 headliner on Could ninth. This bout is over the 185-pound {hardware}, as there’s sturdy animosity between each combatants. Chimaev threatened to take issues out onto the road, whereas Strickland warned that he would shoot “Bolts” and his group in the event that they tried to leap him.
Some are involved about security throughout media week attributable to intense private verbal battles. As he identified in his latest rant in opposition to X, Strickland holds the UFC accountable if it will get to that time.
“The UFC is attempting to restrict my contact with canines.
“Hear, I’m going to say this now: I cannot be dominated by a 3rd world canine… If I discover out that there’s unequal therapy between our camps, I’ll stroll to the foyer and look ahead to him.
“Management the prostitutes or not. I do not care. Let the chips fall the place they might, that is America…”
Chimaev’s coach lately informed MMAFighting that Strickland’s gun speak is “nonsense” as he believes issues by no means attain the purpose of violence. He additionally mentioned Chimaev laughed off Strickland’s warning.
It stays to be seen whether or not UFC management can get issues beneath management heading into struggle night time. Anger could flare up within the aftermath of the match. This occurred after Khabib Nurmagomedov submitted Conor McGregor in 2018. A scuffle ensued between the groups.
UFC CEO Dana White even confirmed that further safety could be supplied for the media day celebrations to maintain issues beneath management between Strickland and Chimaev.
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