Following his win at UFC Houston, Sean Strickland audaciously called for a title fight against Khamzat Chimaev, who responded by mocking the contender.
This past Saturday, former middleweight champion Sean Strickland returned to the Octagon for the primary time in over a yr when he took on Anthony Hernandez within the UFC Houston principal event.
For the primary time in three years, Strickland scored a knockout win, stopping ‘Fluffy’ Hernandez within the third round, putting an end to his eight-fight win streak.
And despite having lost two title fights in his last 4 fights, the 34-year-old called for one more title clash in his next outing.
Chimaev mocks Strickland’s title fight callout
This past August, Khamzat Chimaev dethroned Dricus Du Plessis to change into the brand new middleweight king.
Since then, the Chechen has been linked to make his first title defense against Nassourdine Imavov, nevertheless, ‘Borz’ has repeatedly teased a move as much as 205lbs.
Despite that, UFC boss Dana White shut down the potential of that taking place next, claiming that Chimaev must defend his middleweight title first.
And even though it seemed as if Imavov can be next for the title fight, Strickland could’ve potentially thrown a cat amongst the pigeons.
With that, Chimaev responded to Strickland’s post-fight callout with a post on X, saying: “Habibi come down, I destroyed the guy who beat you twice. American b—-.”
Strickland lost each fights to Dricus Du Plessis, before Chimaev dismantled the South African in easy fashion.
Sean Strickland was silenced by the UFC during post-fight press conference
At this point, Strickland fighting for the title and potentially becoming the champion again might be extremely damaging for the promotion.
In the course of the starting of his fight week, the 34-year-old once more caused a variety of controversy along with his comments during media day.
This led to Paramount facing pressure to handle the previous champion’s comments, after it gained traction within the mainstream media.
And through his post-fight press conference, Strickland once more went on several damaging rants, before his microphone was cut off by the UFC.
Despite that, ‘Tarzan’ continued to reply his final query regarding Chimaev, stating that fans should need to see ‘the last American’ in the game tackle the Chechen.