Sean Strickland slams Khamzat Chimaev's | MMA News
Former middleweight champion Sean Strickland believes you can also make more money in the UFC middleweight division by not combating for the title due to current titleholder Khamzat Chimaev‘s inactivity.
“It’s kind of weird what the UFC did with Chimaev. You brought a guy in that fights once a year who’s like Madonna who probably gets like, you know, I mean, how much money does that dictator give him under the table? Like, the guy doesn’t need to fight dude. He’s best friends with a f*cking warlord. He doesn’t need to f*cking fight. Dude gets gifted G Wagons,” Strickland told ESPN MMA.
“You have somebody who like, he’s just going to sit on that f*cking belt and wait and wait until they force him to fight,” Strickland continued. “The middleweight division, from a pure money perspective, you would make more money not fighting for the belt than you would fighting for the belt, right?
“Say Chimaev goes and fights Nassourdine [Imavov] in six months. Well, as an example Chimaev springs his f*cking pinky like he usually does. Now he takes another yr off. So, it is such as you’re off for two years where it is just like the belt is not even like, it is not even in my mind anymore. I do not assume about it. Like I’ll make considerably more money just combating.”
Strickland’s criticism of Chimaev’s inactivity isn’t unfounded. “Borz” has only fought once a year for the last three years. He competed twice in 2022 after making the walk to the octagon once in 2021.
“It does not make sense to me. We’re in right here to make money and I’ll make considerably more money not combating for a belt, or ready for Chimaev’s pinky to really feel better,” said the former champion. “It’s like every time this man fights he has a mysterious injury. Why wait?
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