Sean Strickland might have taken issues just a little too far in his rivalry with UFC 304 headliner Belal Muhammad.
Crossing the road is just about Strickland’s official model at this level, however struggle followers weren’t precisely thrilled together with his newest dig at Muhammad on social media.
“Belal appears to be like like why I’ve to take my footwear off in airports…..” Strickland commented on Instagram.
Whereas ‘Keep in mind The Title’ hasn’t responded to the ill-advised remark, Strickland drew the ire of customers on each Instagram and X, a lot of them condemning the “disgusting” assertion.
“Sean Strickland implying Belal Muhammad is a terrorist just because he’s Muslim. Disgusting & despicable habits however I wouldn’t count on any much less & you realize a big swath of the MMA neighborhood will cheerlead this habits,” one consumer wrote.
One other famous how Strickland had nothing to say about one other Muslim fighter—Islam Makhachev—whereas sitting subsequent to him through the UFC 302 press convention in June.
“It’s humorous how Sean didn’t [say] something like that when he was sitting subsequent to Islam on the press convention. He went backstage and stated it in one-on-one interviews.”
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Strickland and Muhammad have taken jabs forwards and backwards over time, however issues appeared to escalate final 12 months when ‘Tarzan’ shared a video on-line that featured Muhammad coaching within the background. Strickland labeled the top-ranked welterweight ‘thunder thumbs’ within the clip, which you’ll see under:
Unenthused by Strickland’s antics, Belal Muhammad issued a response shortly after, telling the previous middleweight champ that he’s merely “not that man.”
“This man’s attempting to behave robust once more on social media. Searching for clout chasing, attempting to get views for a podcast,” Muhammad stated. “I provided to struggle you. You turned it down. You placing out this video of you recording from a distance, muttering below your breath, thunder thumbs, which isn’t even intelligent. Your racist hillbilly followers are saying ‘Oh man you’re a beast’, ‘you’re a person’, look how loopy he’s.
“However take a look at the space. It’s like somebody recording a lion within the wild. You keep at a protected distance. You don’t get into the hazard zone. You didn’t get into the hazard zone. Simply cease this. You’re not that man. You’re extra of like an emo Peewee Herman.”
Strickland snapped again, welcoming a struggle with Muhammad anytime, wherever.
“Man, you guys imagine this f*cking clown? Lmao okay p*ssy tomorrow 11am,” he wrote. “Gloves, no gloves idc….”
So far as we all know, that encounter by no means occurred, however if Belal Muhammad manages to defeat Leon Edwards for the welterweight title in Manchester, maybe we’ll see Strickland transfer up and attempt to settle issues with ‘Bully B’ contained in the Octagon.