Sean Strickland recently revealed that one of the fans recently angered him. Ahead of his middleweight title fight against champion Israel Adesanya in the main event of UFC 293 this Saturday in Sydney, Strickland told Fox Sports Australia that he has already had to get physical with one of Adesanya’s supporters who rubbed him the wrong way.
Strickland revealed that a fan approached him on Sunday around Bondi Junction, which didn’t seem like cause for alarm at first as the fighter assumed that they just wanted to take a picture. However, when the fan told Strickland, “Izzy is gunna f*** you up,’ Strickland punched him in the stomach.
“Boom, right in the guts,” Strickland said. “I’d only been in Australia a day and already I’d committed an assault. Initially, I thought the guy was coming up for a photo. Because anybody who wants a photo, man, I love the fans. But if you wanna come up to me and run your f…ing mouth, I’ll smack you like I smack anybody else.
“Uppercut to his stomach. Then I walked away. But if I see the guy again, man, no problems. … I’ll thank him for not pressing charges.”
He managed to establish himself as a UFC middleweight having a record of 7-2 since moving up to 185 pound. Strickland’s public profile has also risen over the past few years due to his willingness to make outlandish and offensive comments in interviews and on social media. So his latest claim should probably be taken with a grain of salt.
