Dricus Du Plessis expected to fight Khamzat Chimaev later this year but the UFC middleweight champion will not be intimidated by "Borz" and his "smesh" antics.

In doing so, he used a rather infamous meme clip before cutting to Strickland having a podcast meltdown about allegedly not believing in God at one point in his life. Chimaev's laughter transition ...

Ahead of UFC 312, things took a petty turn. Chimaev clowned Strickland on X, posting a pic of his new mustache with a flood of laughing emojis. Why? Because Strickland fired the first shot.