BREAKING: Dana White Announces Khamzat Chimaev vs. Sean Strickland, Much More

MMA Fighting

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4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Dana White announced that Khamzat Chimaev defends the middleweight title against Sean Strickland in the main event of #UFC328, and many other big fights. Join MMA Fighting's Mike Heck for a reaction to the big news. Follow Mike Heck: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@m_heckjr⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/dYpsgH⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our full video catalog: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/u8VvLi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Visit our playlists:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/eFhsvM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Like MMAF on Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/nOATUI⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Read More: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:19.6	All right, everybody.
0:21.1	We are here.
0:21.9	We are back once again because Dana White promised some big news said he was going to announce the next nine events of the UFC calendar.
0:34.5	And boy, he did that.
0:35.6	But the big one, the one we were waiting for, was UFC
0:39.6	328. Coming up in May, what would be the main event, especially after the UFC White House
0:46.7	card was announced. And we found out it is for the middleweight championship of the world.
0:51.4	It is Hamzaa Shemayaf defending against Sean Strickland,
0:56.8	not Naserdin Imavov. Sean Strickland gets the nod after stopping Fluffy Hernandez in Houston
1:04.5	just a few weeks ago. And many more announcements came as well. And thank you for joining us.
1:11.0	If you're still awake, still reeling from all the big news.
1:15.1	And I got to say, definitely a different way to announce fights.
1:19.6	It wasn't Dana on a cell phone, yelling and screaming, reading off an index card in a studio with Brennan Fitzgerald and Michael Bisbing
1:30.5	much better way more enjoyable way more professional way to announce fights they made it
1:36.0	feel like a big deal they made it feel bigger than maybe it is in a lot of people's minds
1:42.1	and I really like the way they did that but yes yes, the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey will have Hamzaa Tchimae versus
1:49.9	Sean Strickland for the middleweight championship of the world.
1:54.5	They also made official the Alexander Volkov versus Waldo Cortez-A-Coste fight that we had
2:00.3	reported prior.
2:01.8	Also announced Sean Stric, or excuse me, Sean Brady, somebody, Sean's fighting in Newark.
2:06.4	Sean Brady versus Joachim Buckley was supposed to headline the April 25th event.
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