What REALLY Happened Between Sean Strickland & Khamzat Chimaev? + Ask Uncle Chael
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening, guys? Happy Friday and thank you for joining. Another special episode of |
| 0:09.6 | your welcome. Boy, we got a lot of moving part. Sean Strickland said he was going to shoot |
| 0:14.1 | Chimae of. I want to clarify those statements. And I also want to hope that Sean Strickland |
| 0:20.5 | does not even exercise his |
| 0:23.3 | Second Amendment rights. He is not going to want to shoot Chamaio. We're going to break that |
| 0:29.9 | fight down. We're going to break down what it looks like in the middleweight division. |
| 0:37.0 | We're going to break down the ridiculousness of Connor |
| 0:42.7 | McGregor versus Max Holloway part two. We're going to do everything within our power to stop |
| 0:49.6 | this awful idea before it goes any further down the tracks, and we're going to have an |
| 0:57.6 | extra special Ask Uncle Chale. |
| 1:07.4 | Sean Strickland versus Kahnvichamai of, you know, I'm not as interested in who's going to win this fight |
| 1:15.8 | as I am in who won the sparring session. |
| 1:22.8 | I'm more interested in that. |
| 1:24.0 | I mean, we're going to see the fight. |
| 1:25.1 | Like, we're going to have the, whatever that is, whatever that's going to be. |
| 1:30.2 | They got 25 minutes and they'll wrestle and punch and kick at one another. But I'm more interested in what really happened in those sparring sessions. |
| 1:42.0 | Because there were very different opinions. |
| 1:53.8 | I would swear that when it first happened, Sean Strickland had a much bigger name than Chimai of, at one point in both of their careers. |
| 1:58.0 | Sean Strickland was main event and in fighting for world championships when Chimaiev was still trying to figure out what weight class he was going to go out. |
| 2:04.4 | Just for example, like there for sure historically was a time when perception-wise definitely would have leaned towards Strickland. |
| 2:14.5 | And I would swear somewhere in there that Strickland was building up Chimaya. But you've got to understand, Strickland could have just been being nice. Like, that is what you would do. If you were the leader of a gym and some guy came in, if you were one of the head guys at the gym or you were one of the head guys in the world, when you were doing media and you had a chance to lift up the other guy, that's what you would do. |
| 2:34.5 | I share that because if you fall guys in the world when you were doing media and you had a chance to lift up the other guy, |
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