Strickland spent day in Newport Beach tagging location hoping to meet Chimaev

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 in hopes of a confrontation. Strickland stated that he doesn't typically like to tag his location, but was responding to something Chimaev said about trying to kill him on the street. Strickland emphasized that he was only ten minutes from Chimaev's gym throughout the day and that fighters training with Chimaev follow him on social media and would have seen his stories. He expressed that Chimaev should have known where he was and called himself the last guy in America that Chimaev should mess with. Strickland indicated he genuinely expected Chimaev to show up but was ultimately disappointed when he didn't.