For the second time in a row, Sydney Australia is getting a Sean Strickland most important occasion. And it looks as if some folks down underneath are fairly sick of him.
Strickland beat Israel Adesanya at UFC 293 again in September 2023, the primary UFC occasion in Sydney since 2017. Now they’re again two years later, and Strickland will once more be on the prime of the cardboard as he makes an attempt to win again his middleweight belt from Dricus Du Plessis.
The primary time round, Strickland virtually bought deported from the nation on struggle week after punching a fan. This time the New South Wales authorities — which is paying the UFC massive bucks to come back — needed to be satisfied that Strickland was an acceptable headliner for his or her return. They in all probability didn’t need all of Strickland’s offensive and fringe-political quotes to be collected into one massive headline and splashed on the entrance web page of newspapers.
Welp.
Strickland was featured in a close to full-page unfold on the again cowl of Thursday’s Every day Telegraph. The headline learn: “UFC’s BIGGEST IMBECILE! In Sydney yesterday, UFC fighter Sean Strickland SAID AUSSIES ARE ‘ENGLISH WHITE TRASH,’ CALLED OUR GUN LAWS ‘PATHETIC,’ WENT ON A RACIST TIRADE, AND DARED OUR GOVERNMENT TO BAN HIM.”
“Will somebody please KNOCK THIS GUY OUT!”
That’s precisely the type of response the UFC needs — not calls for that the federal government cease paying to import American hate speech, however calls for that everybody tune in to look at an asshole probably get knocked out. It’s how UFC CEO Dana White recommended we take Bryce Mitchell’s current reward of Hitler and assist for Jews and queers being focused. So it shouldn’t be shocking that the promotion is actively sharing the Every day Telegraph cowl on its socials.
American UFC star Sean Strickland slams Every day Telegraph
“I come to this f***ing nation and I speak about freedom of speech, weapons and taxes and you bought these f***ing communists within the media attempting to f***ing put me down”
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— Clown Down Beneath (@clowndownunder) February 6, 2025
Sean Strickland bought the possibility to reply to the story throughout the UFC 312 pre-fight press convention.
“Bunch of communists right here, guys,” he mentioned. “I come to this nation and I speak about freedom of speech, weapons and taxes and also you guys bought these f—ing communists within the media attempting to f—ing put me down.”
He’ll need to hope there aren’t a bunch of communists judging his title struggle in opposition to Dricus Du Plessis. After shedding their final showdown in Toronto, Canada, “Tarzan” blamed leftist judges for skewing the scorecards in his opponent’s favor.
