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 determination.
Muhammad, who has had many a back-and-forth with Strickland by social media and interviews, reacted to Strickland’s loss, and wasn’t variety about it in any respect.
“I’ve been saying it perpetually: Sean sucks,” Muhammad mentioned. “He’s trash. He talks an enormous recreation, however he by no means walks. Even to the followers that sit there and hype him up, like, ‘[He’s] the most effective boxer, has the most effective 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 woman, and he doesn’t need to get hit.
“Even whenever you’re down 4 rounds, he doesn’t go all out. He doesn’t have it in him except there’s 5 seconds left within the battle, and he needs to yell and have that spotlight reel, and desires folks 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 reveals 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 determination at UFC 297. After the loss, Strickland earned a rematch with du Plessis following a five-round determination 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 plenty of followers and pundits throughout the MMA neighborhood, believed that Khamzat Chimaev ought to’ve gotten the title battle 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 mentioned. “‘Let me let you know one thing guys, I receives a commission some huge cash and I obtained staph, however I used to be going to nonetheless battle 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 battle despite the fact that 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 might 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 eliminate giving this man undeserved title photographs. That’s all I obtained for you.”
