Strickland spent day in Newport Beach challenging Chimaev to street confrontation

Sean Strickland traveled to Newport Beach, California, where Khamzat Chimaev is currently training, and publicly shared his location throughout the day in hopes of confronting the Chechen fighter. Strickland was responding to reports that Chimaev had said he would try to kill him on the street. The American fighter was just ten minutes from Chimaev's gym and tagged his locations on social media, knowing that fighters training with Chimaev follow him and would see the posts. Despite remaining in the area all day, no encounter took place. Strickland called out Chimaev for not showing up, stating he is the last person in America Chimaev should threaten.