Sean
Strickland tried to fight a
UFC star when he was 9 to 10 years old.
Strickland recently caused controversy again while meeting a fan.
The former UFC middleweight champion tried to make a little girl
flip the bird while posing for a photo with him. Strickland
subsequently said that every fan interaction reminds him of his
first meeting with a UFC fighter. Strickland was a kid when he came
across the legendary Tank Abbott at a bar. Abbott was just probably
trying to figure out what Strickland, a kid, was doing at a bar.
However, an angry Strickland, who has had a rough childhood, tried
to pick a fight with Abbott. Strickland’s father, whom he is not a
fan of, intervened and apologized to Abbott. Abbott got the gist of
the situation and hung around with Strickland for the rest of the
night.
‘It Was a Really Dope Night’
“Every time I meet a kid who’s a fan, I’m always reminded of the
first time I met a UFC fighter,” Strickland said on Instagram. “I
had to be like 9 or 10, it was a bar in Huntington beach. Why am I
at a bar? I don’t know. So anyway, Tank Abbott comes up to me, and
he’s a little drunk, so Tank Abbott is kind of talking s—t to me. I
think he’s just trying to figure out like, ‘Why is this kid at a
bar?’… Me being a super angry kid, I’m trying to fight Tank
Abbott now in this bar. My dad comes running up being like this
cuck beta male of a man, really weak f—-ing man. And he starts
apologizing to Tank Abbott, just being a real big cuck. And I think
at this moment Tank Abbott starts connecting the dots like,
‘There’s this angry kid, there’s this weak f—-ing dad who has his
kid in a bar.’ So I hung out with Tank all night long. It was a
really dope night.”
Coming off an upset win over Anthony
Hernandez, Strickland (30-7) is scheduled to challenge Khamzat
Chimaev (15-0) for the middleweight title at UFC 328
on May 9 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.