Watch awkward moment angry Khamzat Chimaev is asked about Islam Makhachev’s popular Dagestan phrase

Although there was numerous criticism when it was first introduced that Strickland would struggle for the 185lb title subsequent, his traditional pre-fight antics have elevated the anticipation for this struggle considerably.

And after the previous middleweight champion claimed that he would ‘shoot’ Chimaev If he and his staff jumped in, the UFC are taking no dangers and have elevated the safety tenfold for struggle week.

If Sean Strickland is in a position to cease Khamzat Chimaev’s dominant wrestling, how a lot of an opportunity do you give him?🤔

Sean Strickland is believed to have the hanging benefit over Khamzat Chimaev.

Khamzat Chimaev offers angry response after awkward query at media scrum

Throughout struggle week, ‘Borz’ has been extraordinarily calm and picked up, not doing something to fret about the promotion that he’ll jeopardize the struggle.

It was in actual fact a media member who got here closest to angering the champion with a wierd query that he asked him throughout a media scrum this previous Tuesday.

“Islam (Makhachev) has said two-three years in Dagestan, that’s all you need, what’s the secret behind training there and becoming a pro fighter,” a confused media member asked Chimaev.

“Erm, I don’t know, ask Islam, I’m not from Dagestan, I’m from Chechnya. No (I’ve never trained there),” Chimaev angrily responded.

Islam Makhachev Famously informed Daniel Cormier to ship his son to Dagestan for ‘two-three years and overlook’, with the phrase having change into commonplace in MMA.

Despite that, Chimaev was born in Chechnya and that is the place his journey in MMA started earlier than he moved to Sweden.

Now, although, the 32-year-old trains from California on the Santo Studios, in addition to with Sam Calavitta on the Treigning Lab.

Although Chimaev and Makhachev have a mutual respect for one another, there was as soon as a time when there was stress between their two groups.

In 2022, Chimaev ended up in a cageside scuffle with Khabib Nurmagomedov‘s cousin, Abubakar Nurmagomedov.

Khabib went on to facilitate a gathering between the 2 the place each groups squashed their beef respectfully.