'These guys HATED each other': Sean Strickland's head coach on beef with Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 328

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Was this a beef beef or is this just like fight promotion with a little bit of competitive edge to the side?

[00:00:06]>> It was a beef.

[00:00:08]>> Okay. All right. If you're telling me it's a beef, then I will believe it.

[00:00:11]>> Yeah. No, it was 100% a beef. And and like you know, it's funny you and I talked about this. You're like, you remember you asked me like what what do you hope happens after this? And I was like, I hope they shake hands and you know, they that they move on and maybe one day Hamza's back in the gym training with us again. Like that's what I truly hope for. But was that was I thinking it was realistic? Probably not. These these guys didn't like each other.

[00:00:34]>> But and I hate to use this analogy, but I thought it was spot on by by Lance.

[00:00:38]Lance, our our manager, and I I I I paused by saying this, but Lance said, "You know what that is? That's postnut clarity."

[00:00:51]>> Oh man, that's great.

[00:00:53]>> You know, he's spot on. He's spot on.

[00:00:56]It's like these dudes hated each other, wanted to kill each other, and then went 25 minutes toe-to-toe to a narrow split decision, just took years off each other's life. How can you not respect the guy across from you, at least at least for like the 15 minutes or 10 minutes after the fight, there was at least some some common ground there, you know? And and Lance looked over at me.

[00:01:17]He goes, "You know what that is? That's postnut clarity right there."

[00:01:20]>> A that's so good.

[00:01:22]>> I'm like, "Bro, you nailed it, man."

[00:01:24]Because what threw people off was like a me they had 450 people inside the octagon but they still like went over and like touched gloves and stuff and EVERY WAS LIKE OH this is U but yeah. Okay. So this >> not not at all. It was I mean it was super real all the way up till man. I mean you know those guys did not like each other. Um there was a lot of back and forth for years between those guys. So, and I think I think that's the the thing that people have to understand is it's competition and these guys, you know, obviously didn't like each other in that moment, but you know, they they went out there and like you seen you you've all been in fights, right? Like, and you get in that fight in elementary school and next thing you know, you're shaking the guy's hand and you know, a lot of my best friends that I I'm still friends to this day, I probably fist fought.

[00:02:09]>> You know what I mean? Like that's how some of us even met like my what best men of my wedding I got in fights with >> you know and then oh you're my you're my pal now. So, you know, it is what it is, man. And I'm actually glad that those two showed that type of sportsmanship knowing how much they hated each other, you know. And I think I think it's a good testament to everybody to know that like hey they're competitors but at the end of the day we're also human beings and there is respect that goes um across the board when you you know spend 25 minutes in a cage trying to kill the other