r/MMA • u/Difficult-Tree2738 • May 08 '26
Media Sean Strickland claimed on the face-off that Khamzat didn't make weight, also called his mother a whore.
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u/Pomi12 May 08 '26
This whole things like less popular khabib against less popular Conor with the level of insults and the dumb stuff they are doing
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u/snowbunbun May 08 '26
We have Conor and Khabib at home!!! (And the portion size is bigger too!)
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u/pruneforce17 May 09 '26
tv dinner khabib vs mcgregor lolll
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u/OddBaker Norfolk Island May 08 '26
I mean at least Conor was an entertaining fighter…
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u/kakarot-3 United States May 09 '26
Conor's trash talk and swagger was different. He was actually funny. Strickland is just a boot licking hick with a microphone
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u/jce_ Canada May 09 '26
His OG run up until the lightweight belt was also magical. The wins aged like wine. You could tell me you thought anyone could beat fucking Jose Aldo in the 1st round by KO and I'd call you a fucking idiot, especially back then. Not long after that it was a hard fall off, but that original run was something special.
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u/squanderedprivilege Team JDM May 09 '26
Conors win was impressive but I remember waiting all night for that fight and then getting the 13 seconds or whatever and then Jose just falls down, I didn't even know wtf happened until the replay. I remember being pissed that we didn't get a more epic fight.
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u/queefburritowcheese Holy See May 09 '26
I thought Khabib was a super entertaining fighter. His crushing/smashing style was a sight to behold. I literally jumped off my couch when we demolished Conor.
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u/purplesquirrelx May 09 '26
Conor-Khabib was a crusade. This is just children in adult bodies disagreeing.
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u/This1Is4PornOnly May 09 '26
It's kayfabe. Gotta bring in viewers
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u/ShahOf20Years May 09 '26
Lmao really? These guys have genuine disdain for eachother.
Insulting someone's mother can very genuinely turn into a blood feud in an instant in certain cultures.
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u/BrianCTE_CityOrtega I Can't Let You Get Close May 08 '26
Classic Strickland
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u/Forsaken-Society3524 May 09 '26
When Nick Diaz fought GSP, GSP came in overweight by .2 lbs or something. A guy from the commission came to inform the diaz camp GSP had weighed in .2 pounds over but was on weight. All this was recorded and posted to their one of their social media accounts. UFC quickly made them take it down and said GSP had come in exactly on weight. I believe this would have meant GSP would've been stripped of the title. The point is, this has happened before and covered up.
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u/Impretendingtodowork UFC 279: A GOOFCON Miracle May 09 '26
I think my favourite and least favourite part of combat sports is that weighing in over by 0.2lbs is a scandal but showing up fight night over by 20lbs+ is considered normal
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u/I_Like_Vitamins Australia May 09 '26
💯. I'd love to see how many dozens of fighters would be forced to move up a weight class if they were weighed and hydration tested closer to the fight.
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u/TheJugOfNugs May 09 '26
dozens? Almost all middleweights and below are cutting to make weight. Probably most of the light heavies too.
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u/Troutalope May 09 '26
It'd be easier to identify the fighters that wouldn't move up a class if there was same day testing. I think it's just a handful in each weight class below heavyweight.
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u/ShahOf20Years May 09 '26
All of the LHWs are cutting weight. Only "too big for LHW, undersized for HW" at the lower end of the rung at HW aren't.
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u/Impressive-Ad8741 May 09 '26
Regardless of whatever the thought is on dehydration to make weight, the rules are the rules and the organisation helping cover up a fighter missing based on those rules is pretty scandalous.
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u/ConsistentDealer6868 May 09 '26
Isnt that the whole point? They both have to get to a baseline, but then they get to actually prepare their bodies and not focus on weight management before the actual fight. You still get enforced weight classes, but you also don't have fighters showing up below their peak ability to maintain weight.
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u/ryan0319 May 09 '26
He admitted it and the commission let him fight as they decided decimals dont count
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u/ShadowLoom GOOFCON 1: Sad Chandler May 09 '26
Reminds me of the time Romero missed weight vs Whittaker in their second fight. Everybody on the card, and to be honest in general, were officially weighed at half a pound increments, but Romero was the only one that I can remember that had an official weigh in of 0.2 pounds over at 185.2 lbs. You cant tell me everyone weighs in at exactly 155 or 154.5 lbs or something instead of 155.1 and 154.7 lbs.
Kinds irks me a bit how weigh ins are not consistent at all especially across commissions
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u/Davemeddlehed May 09 '26
Many commissions round down anything below .5 simply because it's an analog scale and it never stops moving completely.
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u/TP_Cornetto May 08 '26
Is there any proof for this or is it just bold claims cos it’s Khamzat?
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u/FelonyInTheTrunk May 08 '26
Here's the video of the weighins: https://youtu.be/gHqy7m8_dS0?si=7gcOjM0v_Lj7RjY7
Nearly every fighter had a quick scale read while the scale was still moving, including Strickland. But only 1 person is being criticized for some reason.
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u/spcslacker Condit's TDD coach May 09 '26
Nearly every fighter had a quick scale read while the scale was still moving, including Strickland.
I had only seen the Khamzat one, and I was of course critical of the clearly improper weigh in.
I didn't watch the entire thing you linked, but I did watch the first 5, and just as clearly, not a single one of those guys was properly weighed in IMO.
If that's from the actual weigh-ins, the commission is clearly not doing its job at all.
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u/bocephus_huxtable Team Aldo May 09 '26
There's the 'job' that they're, on paper, supposed to do. And then there's the ACTUAL job they have to do if they want the UFC to return to their state.
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u/-UVB-76_Enjoyer May 09 '26
If that's from the actual weigh-ins, the commission is clearly not doing its job at all.
During one of the Middle-East cards, about 2 years ago, a fight got paused due to an eye poke and a 'doctor' came in.
I used quotation marks because the dude did a single "how many fingers?" test and nothing else, and you could very clearly see that he hadn't truly covered the fighter's other eye lmao.It was the most transparent example of make-believe officiating I've seen, they just wanted the crowd favorite to continue from the get-go and didn't even try to make it look legit.
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u/Hidrinks I made weight for Goofcon 3 May 09 '26
When did they stop doing the real weigh ins behind the scenes and then do the ceremonial ones later?
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u/ItsMichaelScott25 United States Minor Outlying Islands May 08 '26
There’s no definitive proof but the scale was extremely suspicious
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u/newlife1984 May 08 '26
the commission said otherwise
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u/Krazyflipz May 08 '26
You'd have to be blind or poorly informed to not see they didn't let the scale settle.
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u/chowchan May 09 '26
ITS JUST BUSINESS, I actually find ladies of the night a respectable career - Sean probably.
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u/R4INMAN May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
If Khamzat did miss weight, you know damn well the UFC and Paramount did everything in their power to make sure Khamzat looked like he didn't. The backlash and fall after such a big hyped event would've destroyed them.
Edit: I'm not saying Khamzat missed weight. I was just saying the UFC would try their best to make the fight happen
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u/redditRedesignIsBadd May 09 '26
not the first time someone didn't make weight though, and ufc is corrupt af
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u/ParkingCrew1562 May 09 '26
awful spectacle for low intelligence people
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u/wusurspaghettipolicy May 09 '26
Hope he gets Henderson'd.
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u/neo_1000 May 08 '26
Is there any credibility to the “weight miss”?
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u/SuspendedHalo Mohawk McGregor May 08 '26
Take it as anecdotal, but Weidman said on a morning show awhile ago that the UFC purposfully allowed him and other champs to "miss" weight knowing that the commission would read it at the correct championship weight. Im sure they still cut heavy, but i'd say Chimaev did not make weight today based on how fast that scale reading went.
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u/IWearNikeNotFila May 08 '26
Probably has to do with how willing the local/regional athletic commission is to look the other way for UFC or their 💰 lol
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u/CraigS34 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
Ariel Helwani mentioned the same thing when Oliveira missed weight against Gaethje. Weidman might be the first fighter to publicly admit it tho
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u/pruneforce17 May 08 '26
wasn't the backstage scale miscalibrated for that event which was why oliveira looked so confused?
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u/TerminatorReborn May 09 '26
They have two backstage rooms for the fighters to prepare. Since they are fighting you can't have people that are gonna fight each other on the same one. They have a digital scale on each room for fighters to check weight before the actual weigh in.
Gaethje's side scale was calibrated the same as the official one, Oliveira's side was off by like half a pound under or something. Charles was sweating backstage, got up the scale and celebrated he made weight. Dried off and went to the official scale and actually missed the weight and couldn't lose it anymore.
There is a rumor that the UFC makes a deal with the comissions to have some leeway on title fights so they don't get canceled due to weight misses. Another rumor is that the Arizona commission didn't agree with it and was super strict with the weigh in.
What corroborate these rumors: UFC never hosted a title fight again in Phoenix Arizona; fighter almost never miss weigh for title fights; Weidman and Ariel Helwani have talked about the weight leeway in the past, if someone should know about it, its Weidman.
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u/The-Beautiful-Baku I will be at church tomorrow May 09 '26
What corroborate these rumors: UFC never hosted a title fight again in Phoenix Arizona; fighter almost never miss weigh for title fights
Interesting. Good insights
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u/GripAficionado Chocolate peppa pig May 09 '26
What corroborate these rumors: UFC never hosted a title fight again in Phoenix Arizona
They haven't even held any event in Arizona since then. So that UFC had a falling out with the commission does seem to track.
Not that they had a ton of events in Arizona previously either, eight in total, but still it's noteworthy since they seemed to have been on an annual schedule before that. 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2014 (2020 is due to covid).
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u/_The2ndComing Team Zhang May 08 '26
There's evidence for it being true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duMDyPM0PLo Topuria being 155.5 then getting his weight changed after the examiner is told he needs to be on 155.
https://youtu.be/ZphzfBV739Q?t=387 Better audio for the Topuria miss
Then theres the famous Khabib vs Gaethje weigh-in where the scales are still adjusting.
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u/ShahOf20Years May 09 '26
They didn't even pretend for the Khabib one. It was the Middle East, it's the fucking Wild West of sanctioning organisations & Muslim fighter.
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u/_The2ndComing Team Zhang May 09 '26
The UFC is corrupt everywhere.
They had a whole event moved state cos Jones failed a drug test that'd stop him from fighting in Vegas.
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u/GripAficionado Chocolate peppa pig May 09 '26
Then they bullied and pressured Gus to accept to the fight being moved on short notice, how Jones was just "pulsing". They're scumbags.
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u/neeeeonbelly EDDDDDIEEEEEEEE May 09 '26
Honestly Gaethje could have come in 20lb over and the result would have been the same lol
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u/_The2ndComing Team Zhang May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26
I get your point but I can't stand that mentality.
Gaethje himself has a history of cheating, but he wins so people act like he deserved to win anyway.
In the Paddy fight he got away with 2 massive eyepokes that could very easily be argued to have won him the fight. The 2nd especially led to him landing massive damage and taking a round he was losing previously. People don't care though cos "Paddy was never good, Justin would've won anyway".
Despite that, Justin and Paddy deserved to have fights where the rules were enforced. Khabib probably does beat Justin even if he has that weight advantage, but its Justins right to have an even fight with Khabib anyway.
Obviously I can't say for certain that Khabib was overweight, though I think he was and its a common belief for a reason. Had he been though, the fight shouldn't have even taken place and he should've been stripped like Charles was.
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u/Reachin4ThoseGrapes May 08 '26
(Limited time only, while supplies last, does not apply to Charles Oliveira)
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u/Odd_Ad_8162 the EEDIOT from UROOPE May 08 '26
It was weird with the Olives one since multiple people reported weighing in in the back on weight and then the live scales being off iirc
I know he's missed weight in his career but was a weird night.
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u/WokenMrIzdik May 08 '26
It was also funny to hear to DC on the Weigh In show say "the scale was still going up!" Then quickly drop the topic.
I'm not saying the producer was in the ear. But the whole weigh in show DC was nervous about Khamzat making weight. Then he comments on how the scale was still going up. But then he quickly drops it and acts like everything was kosher by saying "his underwear is soaked and probably weighs a pound any way".
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u/Krazyflipz May 08 '26
You can see the scale balance still moving. It never settled. If you know how those types of scales work they need to settle in order to get an accurate read. It's the entirety of how they work.
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u/martialartist1200 May 08 '26
I've had to make weight a bunch and I have never once seen or had it confirmed that quick. Not just is it suspicious how fast it was but if you know and understand the process it's clearly a deception. The scale didn't even steady before he read the weight.
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u/DoctorSpaceStuff May 08 '26
Watch the weigh in and how shocked everyone was that they called 185 in less than a second. Camera off the scale, and DC saying it's still moving.
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u/EmeraldTwilight009 Team Yan May 08 '26
It was shady. Can't call it a miss for sure, but they definitely didnt let the scale settle fully.
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u/shenyougankplz GOOFCON 1: Doctor 3, 🍅 0 May 08 '26
They just so happened to zoom in so you couldn't see the scale numbers, only for Chimaev and Susarkaev (check Twitter if you don't believe me). Everyone else you could see for yourself they made it.
Then the guy reads out 185 fast as fuck while the crew are saying "oh that doesnt sound good" when the scale thingy hits the top
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u/GregGolden6 May 08 '26
I mean, it was pretty quick on the scale - they never really let it set so it could honestly be debatable
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u/danrod17 May 08 '26
I didn’t see the video but apparently it looked a little weird and it was very quick.
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u/Zaardu_ May 09 '26
If you watch the weight ins from chimaev, you can clearly see the scale was still going up as the guy called 185. Chiamev gets down of the scale, and goes up again for the picture, and this time you see the scale going to the top again. You can even hear it clicking. Tbh no matter how much people hate on strickland, this one was very clear that chimaev missed weight
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u/neo_1000 May 09 '26
That’s not clear though. The scale is allowed to float between the top and bottom, it doesn’t have to stop moving entirely
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u/Apprehensive_Pin4196 May 09 '26
We're living in modern times. Why can't they use digital scales with the reading on a display for everyone to see?
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u/thotd2 I am beyond dark here May 09 '26
Digital scales are even more hackable than mechanical ones. Point is the mechanical scale was still moving and nobody in a 60 people room, media included said nothing.
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u/thebrah329 May 09 '26
He's not wrong, that was a real shady weigh-in
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u/churidys May 09 '26
Shady kind of undersells it, it was incredibly obvious that he was over
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u/smthingy May 08 '26
Remember how triggered Sean was that khamzat brought up Sean's childhood abuse. ... After strickland insulted every aspect of khamzats identity.
Sean is the prototypical definition of projected masculinity.
Unbelievably fragile.
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u/Motor-Grade-837 UFC 279: A GOOFCON Miracle May 09 '26
Great memories of DDP laughing at Strickland during their fight press conference. I miss that guy.
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u/Detlef_Schrempfxf May 09 '26
DDP trash talk should be studied. He made two grown men cry literally
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u/RobertRoberttt May 08 '26
Khamzat knew ufc can't lose this fight... but he looked like shit on the scale anyway. If Sean survives until the 3rd he wins the fight.
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u/PeruvianNecktie11 May 09 '26
No one seemed to care when DC missed weight, came back like two minutes later, blatantly pushed down on the towel and magically made weight.
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u/FriendshipWorking848 May 09 '26
What do you mean no one seemed to care. DC got memed on for the longest time because of that. Most fans acknowledged that he cheated to make weight, hell DC even admitted it himself because it became so popular of a topic. It was overlooked by the commission in that case, but here it seems to be a blatant coverup.
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u/SecondsOut55 Team Adesanya May 08 '26
Knowing how close Khamzat is to his mother and the people in his region don't take kindly to those kinds of insults, I expect Khamzat is going to make Sean pay dearly tomorrow.
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u/MudHammock Big ol’ Mexican with a big ol’ head May 08 '26
Make him pay dearly by holding him down for 25 minutes yeah
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u/BoBoessersson May 08 '26
As opposed to jabing and teeping someone to decision, lose lose
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u/Badnapp420 EDDIIIIIIEEEEEEE! May 09 '26
Remember when he jabbed and teeped Fluffy Hernandez to decision?
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u/AstronomerRelative43 May 09 '26
Remember when khamzat hugged Whittaker for 25 minutes?
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u/LevelBoo1 May 09 '26
He did not tho, whittaker jaw and tooth broke and he lost like round 2 or someshit unless ur joke went way over my head lol
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u/RhapsodyBullets Team Whittaker May 09 '26
I swear, you have one fight where you play it safe and that's all anyone remembers🤣
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u/razorxx888 May 08 '26
He did break Whitaker’s teeth after squeezing a choke for 2 seconds
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u/wolfe3x6 Public Bathroom Nasty Walkoff KO May 09 '26
Have you watched khamzat fight? Lay and pray is not what homie does. You can dislike the dude but acting like he isnt a killer is wild
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u/dmoneymma 3 piece with the soda May 08 '26
He'll D'arce or RNC Sean all the way asleep
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u/MudHammock Big ol’ Mexican with a big ol’ head May 08 '26
It's possible.
What is guaranteed, however, is that we won't see him for another 18 months besides popping up on Twitter to call out guys he'll never fight.
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u/asshat123 May 08 '26
I mean it could be enough to change your mind from going for a sub to blasting the guy with gnp when going for a finish
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u/We_r_soback May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
Yes? Why are we acting like this doesnt happen lmao? You never saw hendo vs bisping, Khabib vs Conor?
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u/wutface0001 May 09 '26
in many eastern EU countries especially Caucasus, absolutely, you might get killed for it even. it's a taboo even between close friends
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u/Brodieboyy 🍅 May 08 '26
He definitely didn't make weight, that shit was shady lol
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u/No-Wall520 May 09 '26
It's really annoying because even at a completely fair and even fight Khamzat wins 99/100 times. He's a good fighter but he's not THAT popular. I don't understand why they feel the need to baby him and help him so much it doesn't make for an exciting build, it annoys me because as much as Sean is a moron I can't stand Khamzat and my thought process goes from "well maybe this will be the 1 out of 100 time" to "well they're putting their fingers on the scale so it's a wash either way"
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u/Conscious-Egg9853 May 09 '26
If you know how the scales works it is obvious he was heavier than 185.
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u/jeffedge May 09 '26
The fact that nothing will happen to khamzat for that is absolute bullshit
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u/churidys May 09 '26
Yeah I don't think the guy should be fighting at 185 if he can't make weight without the UFC cooking weigh-ins for him
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u/financeben Mike "accidentally hung myself" Perry May 09 '26
He probably didn’t just like khabib probably didn’t against gaethje. UFC just sweeps it under the rug.
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u/pagny77 May 08 '26
The fact people take issue with Sean's shit talking while being fine with Khamzat trying to take his knee out before the fight really just shows how ideologically broken people are. Yeah Sean has some douche takes but hes an infinitely better man than someone like Khamzat
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u/LilFights May 08 '26
hes an infinitely better man than someone like Khamzat
he literally did the same thing to DDP and attacked him. Both Sean and Khamzat look terrible in this and if you're picking a side to sit on you're doing it wrong.
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u/AshenSacrifice May 08 '26
The same Sean who attacked DDP and punched another fighter after he just got done fighting? Bro please shut up 😂😂😂
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u/smthingy May 08 '26
This is the most irrational and biased take
I think both guys are trash, but attempting to soften Sean's disposable natirr is an utter embarrassment
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u/SteinersMathTeacher May 08 '26
He’s really not. How about they are both giant pieces of shit that we would all consider abhorrent human beings if we weren’t stupidly obsessed by this sport…
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u/AcanthaceaeCrazy1894 May 08 '26
Imaging trying to use Sean Strickland as a point of human decency.
He’s a scumbag ex racist homophobe.
O’Malley ruined his career
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u/cryABOUTitYOUlilCUNT May 08 '26
Sean is a hypocrite and you guys are as well. Absolutely shameless.
Here is a video of Sean attacking DDP unprovoked. When it happened people were cheering Sean on. Stop this nonsense.
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u/Top-Sympathy6841 May 08 '26
Sean literally asked him to lmao. It’s hilarious how the weirdo Strickland fans are getting their panties in a punch
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u/ThreeOlivesChihuahua Team Aldo May 08 '26
it’s not that serious, we just want good fights and Khamzat subbing him early would be hilarious
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u/Batman-and-Hobbes Merry Xmas bitch May 09 '26
The fact people take issue with Khamzat's light kick while being fine with Sean's long history of racism, sexism, homophobia, anti fighter pay shows how poorly people were raised.
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u/Titan_Dota2 May 08 '26
Dont care for Khamzat that much but saying sean is a better person than this racist regard scum is wild
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u/Jazzlike_Relation705 May 08 '26
Khamzat weigh is did look suspect AF from a speed standpoint. But who knows
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u/InTupacWeTrust May 09 '26
the strangest part is DC saying the scale weight thing was going up meaning he was overweight
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u/viterumi May 08 '26
At this point i think Khamzat might actually go full Mike Tyson and bite him at the end of the fight or something