Sean Strickland spent a day in Newport Beach, California, where Khamzat Chimaev is currently training, and repeatedly tagged his location on social media hoping to encounter Chimaev's team. Strickland stated he was responding to comments Chimaev allegedly made about trying to kill him on the street. He emphasized that he was only ten minutes from Chimaev's gym and that fighters training with Chimaev follow him on social media and would have seen his stories. Strickland said he expected Chimaev to show up but he never did, and warned that he is the last guy in America Chimaev should be confronting. The post highlights the escalating verbal feud between the two middleweights.
