UFC middleweight Sean Strickland doesn’t really hold back when it comes to his opinions. In a recent video uploaded to Instagram, Strickland unleashed his fury on former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey. Strickland’s problem with Rousey came from her public discussion of the depressive issues she faced following her loss to Holly Holm at UFC 193.
At the time, Rousey described her ordeal on Ellen. “To be honest, I was down in the medical room in the corner and I was like, ‘What am I anymore if I’m not this?’ I was literally sitting there, thinking about killing myself.
Sean Strickland: Ronda Rousey is “Everything That’s Wrong with the F****** World”
In the exact second, I was like, ‘I’m nothing, what am I going to do anymore? No one gives a shit about me without this.’ To be honest, I looked up and saw my man, Travis, and thought, ‘I need to have his babies, I need to stay alive [laughs].’ I haven’t told anyone that except him.
That’s what I was thinking.” Sean Strickland took umbrage with this, describing Rousey’s attitude as “everything that’s wrong with the f****** world”. “I explained why I hate Ronda Rousey, why I find she is everything that’s wrong with the f***ing world.
[Her Ellen appearance] was on the news, it was fucking everywhere. I don’t know when suicide became cool but it became cool, like they made a Netflix show ‘13 Reasons.’ Everybody’s f***ing depressed, everybody is suicidal, and let me f***ing tell you guys, it is not f***ing cool. Depression is like cancer, it’s fucking terminal. It’s like herpes, you might not have it but you always fucking have it and it’s waiting to f***ing come out.
Suicidal thoughts, for the people who have it, it’s even f***ing worse. You fixate on it, you dwell on it, you start thinking about how you’re gonna do it. You start thinking about where you’re gonna do it, you start think about how your people are gonna take it, you really fantasize about it and it’s f***ing miserable.
It’s not a fleeting thought because you lost a fight. And I hate Ronda Rousey because she used something so f***ed up and so serious as a ‘but I overcame it’ strong moment, when it’s f***ing not.”
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