Following his loss to Dricus Du Plessis within the UFC 297 predominant occasion, former champion Sean Strickland launched a press release alleging that Du Plessis had headbutted him through the match. In one other social media submit, Strickland blamed the loss on the headbutt and connected a video.
“Effectively f**okay haha… man that headbutt actually made it troublesome to see however I believed we received the job completed. Blood and all!!! Onto the subsequent one!!! Thanks everybody who supported me,” he wrote on X, previously generally known as Twitter.
Within the second submit Strickland acknowledged, “Everyone knows I gained… The one motive why it wasn’t one sided for five rounds is the headbutt took my eye….. Wasn’t touched until the blood took my imaginative and prescient..”
Effectively fuck haha… man that headbutt actually made it troublesome to see however I believed we received the job completed. Blood and all!!! Onto the subsequent one!!! Thanks everybody who supported me!!!!!!
— Sean Strickland (@SStricklandMMA) January 21, 2024
Everyone knows I gained… The one motive why it wasn't one sided for five rounds is the headbutt took my eye….. Wasn't touched until the blood took my imaginative and prescient.. pic.twitter.com/CLvcURLzWT
— Sean Strickland (@SStricklandMMA) January 22, 2024
Former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo is not shopping for what Strickland is saying. After watching the battle and the incident in query, Cejudo believes Strickland was reduce earlier than it occurred. He additionally would not take into account what occurred a ‘headbutt.’
“If it is a headbutt, I do not know what to let you know. However he was already leaking,” Cejudo mentioned on his YouTube channel.
“He was already leaking on that aspect and it was the truth that he (Du Plessis) just about got here up. Should you name this a headbutt then f**okay I might be headbutting all people. That is not it. He was already leaking. It is unintentional, nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient to say, hey, he headbutted me,” continued Cejudo
Cejudo scored the battle for Du Plessis, saying, “I believed he was the clear winner.” The previous Olympic Gold Medalist scored Strickland successful the primary and final rounds with Du Plessis successful rounds two, three, and 4.
