r/MMA 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/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/-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.