Fighter advocate Sean Strickland beefs with Mike Perry, admits UFC pay ‘utter garbage’

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Former Final Combating Championship (UFC) Middleweight kingpin Sean Strickland is a little bit of an enigma. Take, for instance, his relationship with Naked Knuckle Combating Championship (BKFC) star Mike Perry. Within the final couple months, Strickland has respectfully expressed curiosity in combating Perry and seeing how good he’s, however he’s additionally trashed BKFC at a latest press convention.

“How a lot would I f—king battle naked knuckle for?” Strickland mentioned. “Not nothing they might pay me. They’re paying their guys s—t. F—king breaking their palms, breaking their orbitals, making like a pair thousand bucks.”

Former UFC champion and present BKFC athlete Eddie Alvarez already clapped again at Strickland, and now Perry has responded as effectively. Reacting to the feedback above, Perry argued, “Strickland, he’s combating for the UFC for pesos, and I’m getting paid over right here. He’s at all times posting movies on Instagram the place he walks exterior of his storage or his entrance door, and anyone is in his driveway and he’s making an attempt to battle a naked knuckle totally free proper there. What are you speaking about Sean?”

Strickland responded, nearly assembly Perry midway. Strickland defined that he’s utilizing his platform as an advocate to enhance “utter rubbish” UFC pay, however he additionally insists most BKFC athletes are getting paid lower than their UFC counterparts.

“UFC pay is utter rubbish,” Strickland wrote in response. “lol their [sic] signing guys at 10/10 that ought to be legal … however the overwhelming majority of BKFC fighters are getting paid manner lower than that … As a ufc fighter I advocate for higher pay for me and your entire roster … You must do the identical to your guys.”

He continued, “Whereas I’m on my cleaning soap field from a poor man who grew to become kinda a wealthy man after you have capital it simply snow balls. These elites might most likely by no means take a paycheck once more and simply make 500k a yr … but they nonetheless line their financial institution accounts with hundreds of thousands that they are going to by no means want or spend. In all industries.”

Simply over per week in the past, Strickland returned to the win column by defeating Paulo Costa through unanimous determination at UFC 302. He’s insistent that he’ll sit out till he receives a title shot after the win. Perry, in the meantime, remains to be unbeaten in naked knuckle boxing and most just lately stopped Thiago Alves in fast style (watch right here).

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