Sean Strickland is not one to mince words.
After Luke Rockhold (16-5 MMA, 9-4 UFC) called him a “f*cking idiot” for his outspoken nature, Strickland (24-3 MMA, 11-3 UFC) refuses to let him off the hook.
But the good thing is, they’ll get a chance to settle things when they square off at UFC 268 on Nov. 6.
“All these things, they might be true,” Strickland said in a video on his Instagram. “But I’ll tell you one thing: Me and you might never fight. I don’t care about fighting in the cage for ego reasons. I like to get paid at something I enjoy. But I’ll tell you f*cking one thing: You just can’t live in a radius of me and run your f*cking mouth and not expect for me to hit you in the face. We don’t need to fight, that’s fine. But I’m going to run into you at RVCA.
“I’m going to see you in the parking lot, and I’m going to walk up to you and smack you in the f*cking face, and you seem like the kind of p*ssy that runs his f*cking mouth and gets hit and then calls the cops. But you’re such a smug, cocky motherf*cker that I would probably take a misdemeanor charge just to smack you and watch your f*cking head bounce off the ground. So again, we don’t gotta fight. But don’t f*cking run your mouth because I’m going to see you again, and I’m going to smack you in the f*cking face.”
Strickland has recently made headlines for both his impressive octagon performances and his controversial statement afterward. The 30-year-old, who’s coming off a shutout of Uriah Hall this past Saturday at UFC on ESPN 28, said that nothing would make him happier than to kill somebody in the cage.
The rising contender has won his past five in a row and will be making a quick turnaround when he takes on former UFC middleweight champion Rockhold, who’s returning from a more than two-year layoff.
Sean Strickland fires back at ‘cocky motherf*cker’ Luke Rockhold with expletive-filled video message