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Dana White Defends Free Speech After Sean Strickland Rant

Dana White strongly defended free speech on Saturday night after a Canadian reporter raised the issue of UFC fighters being free to express their opinions in public. After UFC 297 concluded at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, one Canadian journalist said that earlier in the week, then-UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland had bombarded another Canadian reporter […]

Dricus Du Plessis outpoints Sean Strickland

TORONTO — The budding animosity between Sean Strickland and Doricus du Plessis finally reached a boiling point at UFC 297 on Saturday night. The two fought for five rounds in a close fight, but in the end du Plessis bled out the former champion's left eye and took Strickland's middleweight belt, winning by split decision. […]

UFC 297’s Dricus du Plessis recounts impromptu brawl with Sean Strickland

UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland says everything from setting guidelines about trash talk that is off-limits to violating nearly every restriction in a profane and insensitive manner. “There's nothing I'd rather do more than kill someone in the ring,” Strickland told reporters in 2021, in a wildly insane exchange with the media. Admitting that “ring” […]