Sean Strickland continues to be up to his usual antics, this time taking aim at UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya.
Strickland has been known to ruffle the feathers of his fellow middleweights. In particular, he’s taken issue with Adesanya over a video. Strickland claimed that Adesanya is shilling for China.
Sean Strickland goes off on Israel Adesanya for representing China pic.twitter.com/QlHL5J8mOM
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Sean Strickland Insults Israel Adesanya
Strickland appeared on an episode of Joe Rogan’s “JRE MMA Show,” and he recalled watching the clip in question of Adesanya.
“He says, and I quote, ‘You look at the color of my skin and you think I’m from Africa, but I am Chinese,'” Strickland said.
In Strickland’s mind, what made matters worse is that he says “The Last Stylebender” told people he was paid to get on China’s good side.
“I always call him China’s little slut ’cause here’s the thing you guys, we have all been a whore to somebody,” Strickland said. “We have all been friends with somebody we shouldn’t have been friends with. We have all been buddies because maybe he can plug me into this, maybe he can give me a dollar, but that level of f****** being a slut, dude. My God.”
Strickland continued his bizarre rant on Adesanya, explaining why he doesn’t like the UFC Middleweight Champion. He even went as far as to say there’s a video of Adesanya “jerking his dog off.” Strickland said that if he gets a chance to fight Adesanya down the road, he promised to hand him a Chinese flag that says “slut” on it.
When asked by Rogan if Strickland is worried that he may screw the fight up with his trash talk, the top-ranked middleweight didn’t sound too worried. In fact, he believes that Adesanya would want to fight him even more after seeing all of the things that he’s said.
I've paid my dues, give me the title shot
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