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\nKhamzat Chimaev is still focused on a rematch with Sean
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Khamzat Chimaev targeted Strickland in a social media post on Monday. Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cAccept the fight, don’t run. I’ll beat you anyway,\u201d Chimaev wrote Accept the fight, don’t run, I’ll beat you \u2014 Khamzat <\/center><\/p>\n While Chimaev initially indicated he would move to light The Khamzat Chimaev is still focused on a rematch with Sean Strickland. | Getty\/UFC Khamzat Chimaev is applying the pressure for a middleweight championship rematch against Sean Strickland. Chimaev targeted Strickland in a social media post on Monday. \u201cBorz\u201d relinquished the 185-pound strap to Strickland in a split-decision defeat at UFC 328 on May 9. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChimaev<\/a> is applying the pressure for a middleweight
\nchampionship rematch against Sean
\nStrickland<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cBorz\u201d relinquished the 185-pound strap to Strickland in a
\nsplit-decision defeat at UFC 328<\/a>
\non May 9. It was Chimaev\u2019s first loss in 16 professional
\noutings.<\/p>\n
\non X. \u201cThe sooner this happens, the easier it will be to
\nbreathe.\u201d\n
\nanyway, The sooner this happens, the easier it will be to breathe
\n\ud83d\ude01@SStricklandMMA<\/a><\/p>\n
\nChimaev<\/a> (@KChimaev)
\nJune 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nChange in Plans and Another Worthy Contender<\/h2>\n
\nheavyweight following the loss to Strickland, his focus quickly
\nshifted to a rematch shortly thereafter. A few days after UFC 328,
\nthe Chechen fighter\u2019s team released a statement revealing that
\nChimaev is “obsessed”<\/a> with receiving a return date against Strickland.<\/p>\n
\nUFC<\/a> has not provided any clarity regarding the next step in the
\nmiddleweight division. In addition to a Chimaev rematch, a title
\ndefense against Nassourdine
\nImavov<\/a> \u2014 who has won five straight at 185 pounds \u2014 is also a
\npossibility for Strickland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"