Sean Strickland was in Newport Beach, California, where Khamzat Chimaev is currently training, and deliberately tagged his location throughout the day in his social media stories. Strickland was responding to reports that Chimaev said he would try to kill him on the street. He noted he was only ten minutes from Chimaev's gym and that fighters training with Chimaev follow him and would have seen his location tags. Strickland stated he expected Chimaev to show up for a confrontation and called himself the last guy in America that Chimaev should mess with. The challenge went unanswered as Chimaev did not appear.
