UFC welterweight champ Belal Muhammad is having some enjoyable at Sean Strickland’s expense.
Strickland headlined UFC 312 this previous Saturday in a rematch for the middleweight title in opposition to champ Dricus du Plessis, the place Strickland misplaced a one-sided unanimous choice.
Muhammad, who has had many a back-and-forth with Strickland by means of social media and interviews, reacted to Strickland’s loss, and wasn’t variety about it in any respect.
“I’ve been saying it ceaselessly: Sean sucks,” Muhammad stated. “He’s trash. He talks a giant recreation, however he by no means walks. Even to the followers that sit there and hype him up, like, ‘[He’s] the very best boxer, has the very best boxing protection,’ this and that. ‘He’s going to go to warfare, he’s going to kill,’ ‘I’d bleed for my followers, I’d die for my followers, blah blah blah,’ however you go on the market and he simply jabs and teeps and he fights like a scared little lady, and he doesn’t need to get hit.
“Even if you’re down 4 rounds, he doesn’t go all out. He doesn’t have it in him until there’s 5 seconds left within the struggle, and he needs to yell and have that spotlight reel, and needs individuals to say he’s loopy, he’s nuts. He’s not. He’s only a racist little clown that’s hiding in a physique of a fighter. He’s a scared little boy hiding within the physique of a fighter. He’s a coward, and he exhibits it in his fights.”
Of their first assembly 13 months in the past, Strickland misplaced the 185-pound belt to du Plessis by way of a razor shut cut up choice at UFC 297. After the loss, Strickland earned a rematch with du Plessis following a five-round choice win over Paulo Costa within the co-main occasion of UFC 302 this previous June.
Du Plessis went on to cease Israel Adesanya in August at UFC 305 for his first profitable title protection. “Stillknocks,” together with a variety of followers and pundits inside the MMA neighborhood, believed that Khamzat Chimaev ought to’ve gotten the title struggle over Strickland following Chimaev’s eye-opening first-round submission win over former champ Robert Whittaker at UFC 308 in October.
It seems Muhammad believed that very same sentiment, as he continued to put into Strickland and his efficiency.
“And now he’s going to give you, ‘Oh, man, I had staph,’” Muhammad stated. “‘Let me inform you one thing guys, I receives a commission some huge cash and I obtained staph, however I used to be going to nonetheless struggle for you guys as a result of I’ve to place a present on for my followers, after which I broke my nostril in order that tousled my entire struggle although I misplaced the primary three rounds simply by jabbing one time each 5 minutes. Yeah, man, it was all from the staph, that’s why I wore sleeveless shirts on the press convention so that you guys may see it and have this excuse constructed up already, and my followers will know that I nonetheless stepped in there for you.’
“He sucks. And eventually, we get to do away with giving this man undeserved title photographs. That’s all I obtained for you.”