Former UFC champion Sean Strickland is as soon as once more handing out gymnasium beatdowns.
Strickland loves sparring and doesn’t conceal it. The 34-year-old Middleweight is at all times within the gymnasium throwing down, and he doesn’t discriminate in terms of throwing arms. There’s loads of movies of Strickland knocking out coaching companions, combating followers, and going after larger opponents, however that’s not all. Simply over a 12 months in the past, Strickland made headlines by beating the crap out of Sneako, a well-liked streamer, and it appears he’s nonetheless hungry for influencer blood.
Within the video above, Strickland may be seen chasing YouTuber Nick Nayersina all around the Xtreme Couture Octagon. Whereas Strickland doesn’t seem like absolutely going for the kill, he’s additionally not holding a lot again, throwing hard-looking elbows and excessive kicks at his hapless foe.
That is solely a clip, so there’s absolutely extra beatdown footage to come back.
Is this easy content material farming or is there actual beef right here? Per FullSendMMA, there’s really some unhealthy blood relationship again to Strickland’s drama with ex-Navy SEAL (and Tony Ferguson head coach) David Goggins. Strickland trashed the SEALs and challenged them to a battle, whereas Goggins challenged Strickland to do some SEAL coaching workouts.
Nayersina stood by Goggins and dissed Strickland … to his personal detriment.
“Be mindful Nick made a video doing Navy Seal coaching and saying Sean Strickland backed out of it,” FullSendMMA defined concerning the incident. “He additionally stated ‘F—okay You Sean Strickland’ within the video.”
As for Strickland’s precise skilled combating profession, his 2025 is off to a tough begin. Strickland did not regain his title in a miserably flat efficiency, getting shut out by rival champion Dricus Du Plessis in a bloody defeat that pushed him out of the title combine (watch right here).
Possibly he can rebound versus this fellow former champion.