Sean Strickland offered some details behind his viral altercation with musician and actor Machine Gun Kelly.
The former UFC middleweight champion had a busy weekend. He kicked things off on Friday by bloodying Rumble streamer Sneako during an intense sparring session. He then engaged in a flame war with Jake Paul before heading to a star-studded Power Slap event featuring a barrage of celebrities and social media influencers.
It was there that Strickland had two interesting encounters. One came when he met the infamous TikToker Jaykindafun, best known for being the obnoxious ‘Chupapi Munyanyo’ kid. He then struck up a brief conversation with Machine Gun Kelly.
Strickland was escorted out of the building moments later.
“I met a vampire,” Strickland said on YouTube, referring to his interaction with MGK. “Apparently, the guy’s dating f*ckin’ Megan Fox from Transformers. I don’t know what happened to Megan Fox, dude, but… Something happened to Megan Fox, you guys. I don’t know who did it, but I want to find that man and have a conversation with him because me and you dude, we’re not cool.
He continued, “So, I go and I meet the vampire and I make fun of him like, ‘Dude, what are you f*cking wearing? What the f*ck is going on here? How are you doing this?’ And he looked at me. He didn’t laugh, he didn’t giggle. He looked at me like, ‘Why is this guy with no respect talking to me like this?’
“He looked at me like I was less than human and I was like, ‘You know what? I’m gonna f*cking humble you right now.’ Then my girl kind of got in the way and I was escorted out.”
Sean Strickland just had a face to face confrontation with Machine Gun Kelly, calling him a weirdo and saying “you know where to find me, vampire man”. (Via: Inside Fighting’s @andrewcapucetti) pic.twitter.com/y2LimeSLSO
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Sean Strickland Loathes Influencers
While Strickland did admit to having some respect for Sneako following their interaction at the gym, ‘Tarzan’ has a disdain for online personalities and social media influencers who seem to think they’re better than everyone else.
“Dude, you wake up every day and you dress like a vampire. I don’t know if he does or doesn’t. Maybe it was just the wardrobe, but you dress like a vampire, man. You look like the goth kid on South Park and you go out in the world like this. This only happens because you are in an insulated bubble. You guys don’t understand. These people at this slap fights, they’re not people. They’re influencers.
“I interact with hundreds of people. No fan ever has anything bad to say about me. I love you guys, but these people are not you guys. They are like… I can’t explain it until you interact with these people. They have this weird God complex and when I’m around them I just want to hurt them all and then remind them that you are just a human being. Shut the f*ck up.”
After all of Sean Strickland’s misadventures in Sin City last weekend, it’s hard to imagine UFC CEO Dana White extending any additional invites to him in the future.
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