{"id":332455,"date":"2026-05-10T17:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=332455"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:24:54","slug":"khamzat-chimaev-tells-dana-white-recent-plan-moments-after-sean-strickland-defeat-at-ufc-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/khamzat-chimaev-tells-dana-white-recent-plan-moments-after-sean-strickland-defeat-at-ufc-328\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev tells Dana White recent plan moments after Sean Strickland defeat at UFC 328"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Khamzat Chimaev is planning to maneuver as much as light heavyweight following his defeat to Sean Strickland at UFC 328.<\/p>\n

Chimaev suffered the primary defeat of his profession in a five-round war with Strickland on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Strickland won the UFC middleweight belt with a split decision victory<\/figcaption>Getty<\/figure>\n

The 32-year-old also lost his UFC Middleweight belt, but just isn’t planning on getting it back anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Following UFC 328, Dana White told his press conference that Chimaev told him straight after the fight he wants to maneuver as much as 205lbs.<\/p>\n

Revealing what the 15-1 fighter said, the UFC CEO and president said: \u201cI don\u2019t need to fight [here] again. I would like to maneuver up.<\/p>\n

\u201cEver since Fight Island, he\u2019s gone on a run, he\u2019s undefeated, won the world title. He did all the pieces he\u2019s said he\u2019s going to do. But with the extent of success, and lifestyle, it makes it tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlos Ulberg is the reigning champion at light heavyweight, claiming the vacant title in April.<\/p>\n

Though he tore his ACL in the method and is anticipated to be out for a substantial time period.<\/p>\n

Chimaev concerns<\/h2>\n

Even after weighing in for his title defence against Strickland, there have been concerns over Chimaev\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n

There have been fears he looked depleted after successfully making the 185lb limit.<\/p>\n

There was also a slew of conspiracy theories online that Chimaev had not in truth made weight, something that White vehemently hit back at.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou understand the Latest Jersey State Athletic Commission oversees the weigh-ins, right?\u201d He said. <\/p>\n

\"Dana
White revealed Chimaev\u2019s plans after the primary event at UFC 328<\/figcaption>Getty<\/figure>\n

\u201cJeremy Stephens missed weight by 4 kilos they usually needed to cut a deal. But for Khamzat they\u2019re just going to let him not make weight?<\/p>\n

\u201cJersey and Latest York are two of the hardest commissions within the country. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe web is f****** silly, I don\u2019t know what to let you know apart from that\u2026 I don\u2019t know [why they used a manual scale instead of a digital one].<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, Monday morning at 9.02 call the Latest Jersey Athletic Commission and ask them about that. I even have nothing to do with any of that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strickland, who regained the middleweight belt, also lent into the theories by claiming his opponent didn’t make weight.<\/p>\n

\u201cShow of hands, who thinks he missed weight?\u201d Strickland said when White\u2019s comments were put to him. <\/p>\n

\"Sean
Strickland encouraged the theories about Chimaev not making weight<\/figcaption>Getty<\/figure>\n

\u201cHis scale was going \u2018ding ding ding ding ding\u2019. He 1,000 per cent missed weight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a man from my camp watching him on the check scale when he stepped on and his whole camp said \u2018f***\u2018 they usually dragged him up because he was running out of time. He 1,000 per cent missed weight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t b**** about it, whatever, be a heavyweight I don\u2019t care. But at the tip of the day he said he might need to move as much as 205lb, and he should, dude.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Khamzat Chimaev is planning to maneuver as much as light heavyweight following his defeat to Sean Strickland at UFC 328. Chimaev suffered the primary defeat of his profession in a five-round war with Strickland on Saturday night. Strickland won the UFC middleweight belt with a split decision victoryGetty The 32-year-old also lost his UFC Middleweight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[10248,5330,3691,10247,2054,1239,3930,3931,2007,3928,479],"class_list":["post-332455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-chimaev","tag-dana","tag-defeat","tag-khamzat","tag-moments","tag-plan","tag-sean","tag-strickland","tag-tells","tag-ufc","tag-white"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332458,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332455\/revisions\/332458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}