Sean Strickland spends day in Newport Beach near Khamzat Chimaev's gym

Sean Strickland deliberately spent an entire day in Newport Beach, California, the location where Khamzat Chimaev is currently training, and repeatedly tagged his location on social media hoping to encounter Chimaev or his team. Strickland said he was responding to comments Chimaev allegedly made about trying to kill him on the street. He stated 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 location tags. Strickland called himself the last guy in America that Chimaev should mess with and expressed disappointment that Chimaev did not show up. The post suggests rising tensions between the two middleweights.