UFC welterweight Sean Strickland doesn’t think much of the brewing beef between Khamzat Chimaev and Paulo Costa. Chimaev and Costa clashed at the UFC Performance Institute, and have traded barbs on social media since, but Sean Strickland wants them to stop acting like “f***ing women” and just get in the ring. “The thing about fighters, they’re a bunch of f***ing women.
They’re a bunch of f***ing women. They run their f***ing mouth. They ask their buddies to hold them back. No one wants to fight. And this is the issue with the modern world. Every time there’s f***ing conflict, somebody pulls out a cellphone. And they’re like ‘Let me show the world!’
Sean Strickland Unimpressed By “F***ing Women” Chimaev & Costa
So it’s just like, stop being a bunch of f***ing women. If you’ve got a problem with a motherf***er and you really want to fight, and it’s mutual and he really wants to fight? Just shut the f**k up, be a man, and let’s walk outside and fight. But you f***ing guys are just ‘Hold me back, hold me back!’ Like, come on you guys. Get your dicks a little bigger and just handle it like men.”
Strickland also openly wondered whether the backstage brawl between Chimaev and Holland was staged. Chief among his concerns was that Chimaev, a powerful, dominant wrestler, was matched up to fight Kevin Holland, whose weakness has historically been his lack of wrestling.
“Was it staged? Who knows. It looks like it was staged to me. I just think it’s ironic that you take the one guy that’s at welterweight known for not wrestling. Kevin Holland is known not to know how to f***ing wrestle, and next thing you know, you give him the guy who’s known for wrestling. How the f*** does that work?
I think they need to stop giving him guys, he needs to fight a high ranked guy. I think Covington would be a great fight. He fought Gilbert Burns, but I think Covington should be his next fight and if he wins, he gets a title shot, hands down. He beats Covington? Title fight.”
Sean Strickland’s last outing in the Octagon was, despite his pre-fight boasting, ill-fated for the middleweight. He faced Alex Pereira and suffered a brutal first-round knockout loss. Pereira is now set to face the middleweight champion, Israel Adesanya, at UFC 281 this November. Sean Strickland is rumored to be facing former title contender Jared Cannonier on a card later this year.
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