UFC’s Sean Strickland not interested in ‘trash’ BKFC after MMA career

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Don’t count on Sean Strickland to pursue bare-knuckle boxing after MMA.

Strickland (28-6 MMA, 15-6 UFC) takes on Paulo Costa (14-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC 302 (pay-per-view/ESPN2/ESPN+) co-headliner at Prudential Heart in Newark, N.J.

Strickland nonetheless has just a few years left within the octagon, however when requested if he has an exit plan, the previous UFC middleweight champion mentioned he gained’t think about bare-knuckle boxing like many different fighters have.

“I suppose it’s when the cash stops, man,” Strickland advised reporters, together with MMA Junkie at Wednesday’s UFC 302 media day. “I don’t wish to go f*cking be a kind of a**holes who go and struggle bare-knuckle. I suppose in the event that they paid me sufficient I’d do it. I imply, how a lot you bought to pay to go struggle a person with out gloves on? Nothing they’d pay me (can be sufficient).

“Naked-knuckle, you wish to speak about f*cking crooks, dude. They’re paying their guys sh*t. Naked-knuckle is a kind of organizations the place, such as you hear these numbers, it’s all bullsh*t. Should you have a look at the lowest-rung of the blokes, they’re breaking their palms, breaking their orbitals, and so they’re making a pair thousand bucks. Naked-knuckle is f*cking trash.”

Strickland is probably not prepared to go down the bare-knuckle boxing route after his MMA profession, however many former UFC fighters have – together with the likes of Mike Perry, Jimmie Rivera, John Dodson, Chad Mendes, and Eddie Alvarez.

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