Sean Strickland Rips Into “Wh*re” Khamzat Chiamev, Admits He Can Fight

Sydney, Australia — Sean Strickland was his usual colorful self during Wednesday’s UFC 312 media day, promoting an event that will see the American attempt to reclaim his middleweight crown opposite Dricus Du Plessis.

He covered Bryce Mitchell’s Hitler comments, Alex Pereira cornering him, and middleweight contender Khamzat Chimaev supposedly selling out, all in the sort of language that would make the pearl-clutching types out there shudder. Of course, that’s Strickland, whose filter broke a long time ago.

Strickland also managed to be dismissive of the very belt he’s fighting for this weekend, in between meandering rambles that often saw him veer off-topic.

“The good thing about winning a belt, it’s a lot of money. But it’s kind of hard,” claimed Strickland, who added that “as a thinking man, you must safeguard yourself from falling into manipulative, brainwashing tactics by the corporations.”

Insisting that having the “big ol’ shiny belt” was actually kind of cool, Strickland added that “This small moment in my life, it’s so trivial. I love to fight, it’s so awesome that I get to go in there, I have fans, I get to go fight a man, I get to put it on the line. That’s so f*cking great, and the experience in my trivial little life is such a big experience. And that I’m grateful for it, but a f*cking piece of metal that says UFC on it, get the f*ck out of here.”

Strickland was perhaps his most animated addressing Khamzat Chimaev, who he sees as a sell out. Or, well, the ex-champ himself put it a different way.

“[Chimaev] goes back to Chechnya because somebody wants to buy him a G-Wagon, and he’s like ‘oh yeah I’ll be that whore, I’ll do it, I’ll f*cking bend the knee for you man, I like f*cking G-Wagons,'” Strickland claimed of the man many see as middleweight’s scariest fighter, who has been seen alongside Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov.

“And then what happens? The leash gets way too tight. The leash gets way too tight and you know what? I think the U.S. government looks at him as a terrorist now. Why? Because people get murdered all the time in Chechnya, and they completely violate human rights. So now Chimaev is scared as sh*t, like ‘oh man I wanted to be a f*cking wh*re, but I didn’t want to go full t*t.’ Now he f*cking flees to like somewhere in the sand pit. And now he’s hiding out in the sand pit, and now what does he do? F*cking Chimaev, what does he do? He has a bitcoin f*cking scam, and he scams all of his fans.”

Chimaev was in fact linked to a meme coin known as SMASH, which wound up being virtually worthless when all was said and done.

“Let me tell you something, I had the same bitcoin scam offered to me,” revealed Strickland. “It was like a hundred, two hundred thousand, f*ck you dude, I’m not going to scam my fans, I don’t need money that bad. But that’s what Chimaev did.”

“So yeah, Chimaev, you can fight. You can fight,” he wrapped up. “You’ve got a beard. But let history record it as, you sir are a wh*re. You fled a country, you went back, you got buddy buddy with a dictator, and you fled again. It doesn’t matter how good of a fighter you are, you are and will always be a f*cking wh*re.”

Of course, if Sean Strickland is victorious in his rematch with Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 312, it might be Chimaev he faces next.

Watch the full UFC 312 media day appearance by Sean Strickland above.