{"id":21899,"date":"2026-03-17T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/2026\/03\/17\/coach-strickland-on-potential-chimaev-fight-im-worried-about-my-entourage\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:06:00","slug":"coach-strickland-on-potential-chimaev-fight-im-worried-about-my-entourage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/2026\/03\/17\/coach-strickland-on-potential-chimaev-fight-im-worried-about-my-entourage\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Strickland on potential Chimaev fight: ‘I’m worried about my entourage’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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But according to Strickland’s coach, that way of thinking is a mistake. Eric Nicksik<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt happened five years ago, right?\u201d Nicksick said submission radio<\/em> In a new interview. "Both of these guys have gotten a lot better, both of them have fully realized their potential to be champions…. So I expect a lot of improvement from both of them. So if I were to apply to this fight what I did five years ago, if either of them were to go into this fight? I think that would be a mistake on the part of the person doing that.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nicksick joked that he plans to: [hotel] Go to your room, blindfold yourself, put a pillow over your head, or something like that. \u201cDon\u2019t cause trouble, brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How does he expect the weekly showdowns and staredowns to play out?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cGod knows. God knows,\u201d Nicksick said. "I mean, they’re going to get paid to fight, so they might as well save their money for the fight, you know? To be honest, I think Khamzat and Sean will be professional in that regard. I’d be worried about the entourage, you know what I mean? Like, someone in the crowd sees Sean. That’s how these guys try to make a name for themselves, you know?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t think Khamzat is risking losing his salary. That\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But as Nicksick said, there will be many outside forces that have nothing to lose or gain by interfering with events and driving the outcome. john fork<\/strong> big Dylan Danis<\/strong> During Battle Week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But according to Strickland’s coach, that way of thinking is a mistake. Eric Nicksik. \u201cIt happened five years ago, right?\u201d Nicksick said submission radio In a new interview. "Both of these guys have gotten a lot better, both of them have fully realized their potential to be champions…. So I expect a lot of improvement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[47442,47443,47444],"tags":[47437,47438,47439],"class_list":["post-21899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-ufc-mma-news","category-ufc-news","category-ufc-on-paramount","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}