Middleweight contender Sean Strickland took questions from the press at the official UFC Vegas 66 media day ahead of his main …
how uh how are we feeling ahead of this one with Jared kind of there can you hear me oh good man good good really good when a name like him comes across I mean I guess he just fought Alex Pereira but when a name like Jared comes across your desky a bit like this could be a rough night out I mean do I watch MMA no have I seen a couple cool highlights of the guy yeah sure I don’t know man like did I fight monsters every day like me knock alive been banging like you know it’s like it’s I fight me and Francis will Spar like I fight monsters every day so that said there’s nothing really anyone can do in the cage that’ll actually I mean besides knock me the out I mean there’s that that could happen that would suck but yeah no 100 so how do you see the fight actually playing out you expect it to be a banger are you gonna try and mix it up this time how are you saying the fight player well I mean I’ve really watched much on what do you think I should do I’d avoid getting hit if possible kill a gorilla you know yeah yeah it’s like a scary name yeah how nice would it be if his nickname was that Curious George like oh yeah that’d be nice we got the killer gorilla let’s go it sounds like a scary dude sounds like I don’t want to share a cell mate with that guy yes I agree uh Hey to the wind that myself yeah no I don’t know man maybe I don’t know maybe I’ll take him down maybe I kickbox maybe a box I don’t even know these things you’re asking me you’re asking questions of things that I haven’t even thought about yet have you thought about what a win would do for your place in the division I double my pay do you think you know if you win this like the middleweight division obviously Alex and uh Izzy after rematch but if you win you’ll got let’s say Izzy wins that rematch right either way you’re gonna be one of the names who hasn’t fought for a title in that division yet so it would make sense with a win over Jared you’re probably in that conversation right you know and like again we all know that I’d have the best fight with Izzy I mean he’s gonna run around me I’m gonna get frustrated he might outpoint me but you know it’ll be the best fight I mean I’m on my like I don’t have a lot of followers though so maybe maybe the UC looks at me and says this guy doesn’t have a big name put him in the Apex let him fight there I think they look at you and they think on the press conferences oh yeah press conferences I make dude I make the press conferences like look at look at Patty the you know the Conor McGregor want to be like like you don’t want to see that guy with this gay little bull cut you know you can’t relate to that guy that English little prick are you English um how does it feel to live in a surveillance State when England took your nuts and said you can’t own a knife did it hurt does it feel good to be in America and a Land of the Free home of the brave yeah does it feel good is it nice not to have a camera everywhere you go is it isn’t England like the most surveyed State China but uh I don’t know man you guys that camera every corner yeah that’s why you live you live in America right okay yeah because it’s way better than England it’s all right it’s almost free I live here because it’s a place for work an opportunity but why is it the place of work and opportunity because it’s better than England because the UFC’s here because it’s better than so just admit it bro you could be American for a day man um what is the worst Christmas gift you ever got a beer bottle thrown at your head I don’t know I guess they would be someone like that I don’t know what about you man where did your boyfriend get you uh thanks you know he forgot to give me head that one time oh that’s wait are you are you are you a homosexual I Have Nots no you know I actually was uh I was uh at a Dollar Tree the other day buying wrapping paper because you know like you want to get wrapping paper you go to the Dollar Tree and I’ve seen these like two gay guys in the wild right and I never I’ve never seen like I mean I’ve I’ve gay friends who are couples and I’ve hung out with these guys but I’ve never seen two gay people in Iraq in the wild so I’m holding my my wrapping paper my all my wrapping paper and I’m like watching intently like what’s gonna happen and part of me thought like they were just gonna be like hey you’re gay I’m gay you want to go afterwards no not even slightly they were actually kind of mean to each other that guy was kind of a dick to him like I thought I was about to see romance happen I was excited and then knock I was like you know you I don’t even give a that you’re gay it’s kind of weird man to be clear you were disappointed you didn’t get to see the guys no man I didn’t want to see him dude but I thought I wasn’t about to see a Hallmark movie and take place it’s Christmas got two gays in one room like I thought I was gonna see some romantic nothing happened are you a Christmasy guy uh you know when you’re not poor it’s nice when you’re broke you look at Christmas like oh I gotta buy gifts but now like you know you go on Amazon you just Twitter your thumbs away and like it’s a lot better when you’re not poor you know I mean you know that you’re a journalist you know dude you this guy this guy’s life Ambitions were like you know did you go to school for journalism you just picked up a microphone no I went to school this guy’s a life Ambitions they’re like I’m gonna work my ass off I’m gonna go to school I’m gonna be in the NBA sucking off China I’m gonna be wearing a suit and tie talking to LeBron James everyone’s gonna know me everyone’s gonna love me and now this at the Apex interview with me dude I feel bad for you dude I’m sorry man it’s all right dude I’m sorry man taking from me showing bills to this in the NBA I should transpose it I should change Splats but yeah anyways hi Sean hello how are you please be nice to me I’m always nice um I saw you sparring yesterday I’m just curious if that’s uh typical of you sparring so close to a fight yeah I mean you know I like this bar like takes the nerves off it feels good to hit people I think I just like to hit people you know it’s even way better when it’s not for money because when you’re sparring it just like hey this is just a good time win or lose it’s just a good time but when you’re fighting people for money and it’s like oh if I lose half my check I’m not gonna talk to you guys afterwards I’m gonna go home and sit and masturbate with my tears I’m curious what you thought of is he getting arrested for having brass knuckles I mean he’s you know he’s another Foreigner if he was a real man it would have been a gun you know I mean you know English man you guys you probably can’t even own knives in his country uh man I don’t know dude maybe I mean they just get knocked out there is a there was some CTE acting up I mean the fact that brass knuckles are illegal in Most states is akin to English being like it’s like I don’t understand I could put a gun on my hip right now in that slime but I can’t carry a brass knuckle America you you disappoint me in a lot of aspects of America but whatever am I really get hit with brass knuckles and shot you know carry the brass knuckles dude well where else would you want to live besides America which point which country you think is the most free ah the most free that’s a good that’s a hard one you know man I don’t want to go too deep in the weeds here I love America I’m an American red white and blue you know Freedom Patriot Act all that but you know like something happened with America we’re like we went from like smoking cigarettes riding horses and like working on cars to a bunch of I don’t know if it was 911 or what happened but all of a sudden dude America was like you know what we don’t like guns we don’t like Freedom we want our phones to be listened to we like taxes like I mean it’s kind of hard like America is not necessarily America you know like if you really think about what it was like these founding fathers because you picture our founding fathers if you could bring them back right now and you were like hey man like look at this cool phone and you show them all the cool you do and be like whatever you do though just understand that it’s being watched and listened to these old racist white men would be like grab your musket let’s go kill some people you know so I don’t know man America just is really dropping the ball lately it’s it’s more akin to call me to China and you have this uh you know I didn’t go into it we’re gonna go into it let’s start the revolution you know let’s go that’s why we have AR-15s I prefer the AK the ammo’s cheaper but sorry continue um I want to talk about Twitter I know you’re not on Twitter but now that elon’s taken over he’s kind of reinstating some people do you have any desire to get back on ah Elon must that I love that guy why not sorry it’s not he’s uh Oz is autism listen you guys I probably have autism I’m allowed to be I’m the fellow you guys I got CTE man I get hit in the head for a living these are my people these are my people we’re one of a kind uh no I’m happy what uh what elon’s doing bringing back a little bit of Freedom you know I mean even this fgx guy what like he’s about to go testify for congress next thing you know he gets arrested guys the government’s corrupt grab your guns go grab some uh don’t tread on me flags and let’s uh I don’t want to go storming the capital I’m not that guy but you know you guys should do it you posted that Dana is a businessman and we are the cattle I’m curious if you could elaborate on that oh yeah I know Josh Thompson he he had some good scraps he said that like Dana doesn’t give a about us and I I didn’t know like in the in the business of hey I’m gonna take human beings and make them fight for money if if giving a about them was part of the uh the job title like if I’m the CEO of UFC like and I’m like hey what big scary can we pick to fight each other and afterwards I’m like but you know man I I hope they’re having a good Christmas I hope life is good for him no we’re cattle dude like like again US US versus uh let’s say porn stars what’s the difference you do both take shots to the face I suppose yeah so but again we we we diet we diet we I mean as many shots this guy takes with his boyfriend but but we but we no there’s nothing dude I’m telling you there’s nothing wrong with gays I love him I just I literally had a Hallmark moment with one it was depressing no but we diet we get really skinny a couple of us get abs you know we were we wear these little tight little outfits little spandex you know we’re a little bulge in our cup and we go out there we take our clothes off when we fight in front of thousands of people well these people are like yeah punch me in the face take him down like dry hump him you know twist his dick so again I love my job but I’m not gonna go look in the mirror and think I’m like some I’m LeBron James I’m not I’m gonna prostitute man I take my clothes off Dana says go fight that guy I’m like all right Dana how much and he gives me a number and I’m like it let’s go Dan I’ll fight that so you know I just don’t have an illusion of like uh I’m not disillusioned of what I am and my last question most important question of all what were you buying that you needed to be wrapped oh man uh what did I buy I can’t tell you then they’re gonna they’re gonna watch and they’re no man I was on Amazon I’m dieting I’m just happy that I wrapped it normally I just did the duct tape thing we just wrap it with a whole roll of duct tape I’m like you man if you want this I hope you enjoy it cost me a hundred bucks but it’s gonna take you like 30 minutes but yeah no so yeah Christmas blah blah blah oh this guy oh the rock and roll what’s your tattoo up man what is that uh uh video game controller and some music oh man the one guy that doesn’t get in here What video that’s who you’re married to oh oh you’re married oh man does she play video games too not really oh what did you guys meet on like Elder Scrolls Online uh World of Warcraft World of Warcraft singles time to mingle I’ll bring the Mountain Dew you bring the chips basically oh that’s cool where’s your girl do she work did you meet her at World of Warcraft the bill lies okay do you tell me let me did you play world Warcraft no I haven’t but I always wanted to okay what what video game Trail is that before we continue this I need to get a little bit I need to know a little bit more about you before we uh it’s just the controller like a up it’s a PS4 is it Nintendo ES4 okay PS4 how old are you 32. okay 32 about same age what’s your favorite PS4 game Kingdom Come boy now isn’t there no like that Kingdom Hearts game the Disney game don’t lie to me look at you I’m more of a metal gear solid kind of remake kind of guy yeah you got the you got the you got the scummy goatee looking thing man I understand that when you put that on do you do you look like when you when you shave your face with a scummy goatee like oh man I’m one I want people I want everybody to think that I touch children I I look like Sean Strickland when I when I when I shave all right good looking guy then dude all right continue let’s continue this interview um how does one get a nasty finger injury like you did I’m a koopalabra hasn’t brush his teeth no I I punched koopalabra in the mouthpiece and it was all solid and then I was sparring Johnny eblum who is a uh champion of an organization that is not to be named and uh really good I hit him and all of a sudden I was like man that felt like I even stopped training I stopped for like 10 seconds when I do that felt very weird and he called me a and I’m like I guess man I’m being a so I kept sparring I get done I’m like dude that felt weird and then with hours my hand just swelled up like a balloon not a good surgery so when you punched kutilava’s mouthpiece like what the hell how does that cut your finger uh well Koopa labra is a very angry where is he from what part of the world wherever the Moldova is yeah I didn’t want to go there after meeting koopalabra I’m just like you angry poor I I do not want to know what kind of place it breeds koopalabra so Moldova don’t go I don’t even know where Moldova is dude you look like you might be from Moldova anyways so yeah no I hit the guy and and I don’t know man just dirty angry had a dirty mouth no that being said I love Cooper Lopper he’s actually a solid guy uh true story about Cooper labra I’ve always known Cooper labra to be an angry 33 00:14:49,860 –> 00:14:54,0 and uh yeah no I mean if you guys know koopalabra you’ve he’s an angry and like he’ll always bring in the society bring his like cute little little blonde daughter in and he’s always like taking care of her and like being Mr super dad while he trains so I mean yeah he is a he is a royal but he is also a solid and finally uh one of your other guys that you that you sparked with a lot is um was it seen him win a championship oh man it was nice he he’s probably one of the most improved guy you know like he’s going doing the tour in Africa eating with his hands and spreading kovid but but no I do like no you’re like he was just I don’t know nah he deserves it he’s the hardest working dude in there anytime I need rounds he’s always the first guy raising his hand like you know I I respect guys that heart that work hard and and he’s probably next to Chris Curtis who works too hard to over train she’s probably the hardest working guy in the room we asked Chris if he would fight you and he said that you would you would force him to fight him like like well it depends how much money like again dude like I would fight my mom if they offered me enough money I mean it’s not money to you if she’s willing to pay me but yeah I’d her I mean me and Kurt fight every day in the gym hell and then depending on the odds you might call me a a crowd Strickland no I’m just talking with that in that case that guy’s still banned is he still banned from the UFC I’ve never been I’ve never been I should start betting I have Insight you know I have good Insight on some fights there’s some fights I’m like oh this guy’s gonna win this guy’s gonna lose I should bet so is he still banned from the UFC Krauss what did he do he like he uh you guys know this he was investigation’s still ongoing they’re still trying to come on you have to have some insight bro you’re a journalist you guys your jobs are to be parasites you don’t have any Insight nothing what about you man you got nothing no Insight zero dirty just you can say it bro it’s okay we’re off the Record here going back to the last fight you you mentioned Chris Curtis he gave you a lot of props afterwards how proud are you of that performance he gave you a lot of uh love for the work that you guys did in training camp you know it’s kind of funny so uh Chris Curtis over trains he’s the kind of guy he’ll spot like 12 rounds and you’re just like what’s the point Kurt he’s like I just I got a dude to feel better about myself I’m like all right Kurt whatever the makes you sleep better so Kurt was like over training and being emo and Buckley came and sparred and like Buckley did okay with him like I didn’t think Buckley him up but it was like Buckley did okay so going to that fight I’m like man I’ve watched these guys Spar and Buckley did okay so I was a little nervous and then Kurt goes in there clowns a guy and just like was laughing at him when he spot a fight so I I was a little nervous you’re not happy uh Kurt put on a impressive show he had good boxing you know Buckley Buckley looked really scared at the end of the first she had this look in his face like oh I didn’t think this was gonna be like this I thought I was gonna her up what’s going on I’m getting hit in the face this isn’t the fun I taste blood in my mouth so yeah no I’m happy for Kurt um you know that guy had like a very interesting Journey to the UFC he uh I mean there was one time you know he he got called short notice on a on a UFC fight and lost his I mean like he couldn’t make the way it was Vision impossible and he like had a mental breakdown started breaking all in his apartment you know I thought he’s gonna go I don’t think Kurt’s the one that kills himself I think he’s like the angry black man that goes and gets like death by cop you know prime minister I’m in his apartment and I’m like I’m trying to talk him down after he’s like punching holes while breaking all his furniture um I do Kurt like it’s all good man it’s all good and he goes outside he starts raging and angry no angry man and then yeah like we talked him out of that and then he got signed I mean the guy there’s not one guy in this sport who’s gave more to the sport than Chris Curtis like I mean he’s he deserves he deserves everything he gets when going along with that theme I mean a lot of your teammates all give you credit when it comes to like the work that you do in sparring I know every guy that sits up here and speaks to us wants to be a champ wants to get lots of wins but you have the respect of your peers is that almost as more um appreciative are you happy that you have that knowing that your peers are giving you all the respect of what would be like a champion you know I come off as a big and I am a big but like whenever guys like come to the gym and train with me and I’m helping them out I’m wrestling with them I’m kickboxing with them guys think oh man like like Sean is an but he he is a team guy you know like anybody that comes extreme I’ll help out you know if Francis says hey I have no sparring partners I need you to be my main Spartan Foreigner for Camp I’ll be like all right it if you need it let’s do it so I I think a lot of guys just understand that I’m I’m there for the team you know and I get probably respect from that and I want to read you this quote that came out in an interview and I just happened to see it on ESPN social and it was from uh your last opponent or Bahia said when Sean Strickland entered the octagon and started staring at me he hadn’t looked at me that way before that was when I became scared I thought this guy wants to kill me I’m telling you I did I just did it from everything else where do you go in your head when you step in that cage here we see the geovio you like to you like to with us but where do you go in that you know why you know I’m such a nice guy like if you ever meet me in the world I’m the nicest guy I’m like hey what’s up buddy like let’s take a picture you want to go dick to dick you want to go tip the tip like where the it might be you know it’s because I’m such an angry that like if I don’t always act nice and I let that little thing creep in my head of like of like you and like it fixates on me and fester is like a wound and I dwell on it so when I fight it just you know it’s just more of like hey just be who you are just go in there and fight a you know the shitty thing is though when you’re fighting big Brizzy lines it hit really hard and knock out a lot of people you know they hit really hard knock a lot of people well you’re definitely going there you’re not going against a Brazilian but when you’re looking the guy across the cage break them down for us where’s where’s your uh dangerous and what are you expecting them to bring so I don’t want to tell you guys this bottle Marshall MMA I’ve seen some highlights I’ve been knocking out looks pretty cool I like it when your dog breaths now I was like oh man that’s a scary Okay I understand how you have your name now sir that all makes sense but uh oh is that Bobby green look at what’s Bobby green with the Grill Jesus Christ this guy dude go man let’s go Bobby again that crazy yes you want to talk about someone who’s nuts Bobby green that guy’s he’s in a pod right there but no no no here’s the thing about me I say crazy and like I look in the mirror and I’m very aware of the I’m saying is nuts Bobby though he says crazy and he’s like no this is 100 factual accurate I’m like yeah Bobby God’s speaking to you every day sir you’re the one you’re the one James or Tony Ferguson this time no I shouldn’t make fun of Target first that’s up that guy really is saying and I guess last thing for me uh just keys to the victory what needs to happen to make sure you get your arm raised I don’t know man we wrestle maybe box better I don’t know man you just go in there and like you just gotta just you know it’s like having sex with a woman if you plant it too much it just doesn’t work out you just gotta be fluid you just gotta see where the action takes you now what position you’re gonna get into you know I don’t know he is maybe he doesn’t like being on top maybe he doesn’t like being on bottom I gotta just I gotta figure it out as I go I love it best of luck on Saturday hey Sean oh what’s up man yeah I’m good how are you doing I’ve been looking at your ears this whole time you got some big ears that’s the one thing I’ve noticed since I’ve been up here is your big ass ears but let’s continue this hey I got a big ear too right I was actually a funny story I’m in AutoZone I’m in AutoZone and I actually have this deep I had this like deep thought with myself and this is like this is a thought wall there’s a black guy in here so don’t be offensive but this like this black family gets out of the car and like super like you know loud and just like and you know like my first thought was like oh man black you’re being loud but then I started really dissecting this like I started really dissecting this I was like if it was a white trash family my first thought would be like look at these white trash like what the man but like and then I started thinking like it’s so weird that like humans human beings whenever we like see something that is like very normal we immediately attack him like you like you know big years like you know your PS4 banging you know World of Warcraft you like it’s a very odd thing that humans do you know it’s a very odd thing so yeah anyways I guess going on The Big Year so I see this guy and I’m like you know what dude you’re a like you should not have like you shouldn’t have like judged somebody for how they act they’re just having a good time so I was like and then I noticed he has these big up ears I’m like oh man I’m gonna talk to this guy in AutoZone and we’re gonna be friends and I’m like man I see the years you fight you should you should we should hang out we should come be friends with me we should go train and his dad his dances now as a boy used to twiddle his ears a lot so he gave him some cauliflower here as a kid I’m like well God damn dude I’m gonna tell you you look like a badass so yeah speaking of big years I don’t know why I need to tell that story but just I understand I’m trying to be a better person every day you know so I should probably stop making fun of your big ears it’s hard to imagine why anyone would want to throw a bed bugs what are you doing that’s my dad though that guy yeah what’s up with you waking up and just deciding to roast English people today oh no I mean you because you guys are I mean here’s the thing I like this being but like you know like you guys are you guys are kind of like you know you guys are kind of like as a country you guys are kind of like disappointing yeah I mean that’s fair I mean America is disappointing but again you know I mean I didn’t bring my gun today so you know I was going to but then I thought I got to go to photos after this and if my gun falls out and I’m gonna be like I don’t know if she’s gonna feel about that so I feel really naked right now I feel like I feel like a Jihadi could just come running through the door and kill us all and you you English don’t have guns so like here I am the American is always like hey I we’re I have a gun on me all the time I’m the one that’s supposed to step up and now I don’t got my gun so it’s like you know it’s very depressing you’re thinking that you have to save the day is the most American thing Hey listen we delivered freedom to to uh Afghanistan Iraq now we’re doing a Ukraine you lucky what how many billions of dollars went to that yeah you grateful bastards who’s changing the pace a little bit is it better to give or receive at Christmas yeah yeah this guy you know man I would like to think that I’m more of a giver uh maybe in both aspects you know maybe but then there’s some people that get really great gifts so then you just gotta sit back and enjoy the moment and just a serious one with the holidays coming up people like me pile and wait for food and Guinness if you’ve got as an athlete if you’ve got any pro tips to kind of lose that after Christmas oh no I’m gonna eat like a fat and by the way dude he’s way more proper than you you’re like are you lower class English significantly are you really where are you from I’m from the same sort of area but he paid to go to school I did yeah like you hear this guy talking like oh man this guy drinks dinky out look like you go to he often calls me scum oh man that’s her wait you’re a better looking guy very very barely you might get more but he is married so I don’t know maybe maybe maybe I’m wrong here so yeah man I’ll have holidays you’re looking like he looks disgusting hey man I think I can’t help the way you’re born you’re parents met each other he said we’re gonna and here you are more questions all right thanks all right here we go