Sean Strickland branded Khamzat Chimaev a coward after the pair’s face-off ended when the champion threw a kick.
The middleweight duo have one of the vital heated rivalries in MMA history, and can settle it within the fundamental event of UFC 328 on Saturday night. They got here head-to-head for the primary time since sparring one another a variety of years ago this evening, but needed to be dragged apart by security as things got physical.
Who wins within the fundamental event of UFC 328 on May 9?
Sean Strickland and Khamzat Chimaev finally get the possibility to settle their bitter feud at Prudential Center, can the American beat the champ?
Chimaev had promised that nothing would occur when the pair finally met this week, but inside seconds of the pair arriving on stage they began to go at it. And once they got close enough to the touch, the champion did just that with a kick to the knee.
Sean Strickland slams Khamzat Chimaev in first post since face-off brawl
There was mainly a guarantee that Sean Strickland and Khamzat Chimaev were going to get into something ugly after they finally got here head-to-head tonight in Newark.
Fans were literally turned away on the door of the smaller RWJBarnabas Health Hockey House inside Prudential Center such was the interest in seeing their verbal jousting. They usually delivered in abundance, barely stopping to breathe for one of the best a part of half an hour as they fired out insults at each other.
After they got here face-to-face for a primary staredown, Dana White demanded that they “be good”. Nonetheless, they didn’t try this as they continued jawing at each other before Chimaev threw a kick at his rival that forced each men to be restrained by the copious amount of security on stage.
Strickland quickly took to social media, writing on X: “Exactly what I expected a coward to do.” Chimaev then shared a video speaking Arabic to his Instagram story, giggling in regards to the ordeal.
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