Sean Strickland spent an entire day in Newport Beach, California, where Khamzat Chimaev is currently training, repeatedly tagging his location on social media hoping to encounter Chimaev's team. Strickland was responding to reports that Chimaev had said he would try to kill him on the street. Strickland noted 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. He stated he expected Chimaev to show up and called himself the last guy in America that Chimaev should be picking a fight with. Chimaev ultimately did not appear during Strickland's time in the area.
