{"id":38251,"date":"2026-05-13T15:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Belal-Muhammad-wants-to-make-Strickland-bleed-for-offensive-religious-remarks-201170"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:10:46","slug":"belal-muhammad-wants-to-make-strickland-bleed-for-offensive-religious-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/belal-muhammad-wants-to-make-strickland-bleed-for-offensive-religious-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Belal Muhammad wants to make Strickland &#8216;bleed&#8217; for offensive religious remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/belal-muhammad-wants-to-make-strickland-bleed-for-offensive-religious-remarks.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Belal-Muhammad-108315\">Belal<br \/>\nMuhammad<\/a> refuses to accept <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Sean-Strickland-30452\">Sean<br \/>\nStrickland<\/a>\u2019s apology to Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Strickland (31-7) has made Islamophobic comments on multiple<br \/>\noccasions in the past. Strickland also targeted <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Khamzat-Chimaev-280021\">Khamzat<br \/>\nChimaev<\/a>\u2019s (15-1) religion ahead of their <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-328-May-9-111957\">UFC 328<\/a><br \/>\nfight last weekend. However, Strickland apologized to Chimaev after<br \/>\ndethroning him via split decision. Strickland also apologized to<br \/>\nhis fans across multiple religions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, Muhammad isn\u2019t buying the apology. A devout Muslim,<br \/>\nMuhammad accuses Strickland of trying to justify his comments by<br \/>\nmaking peace with Chimaev after the fight. While Muhammad competes<br \/>\nat welterweight, and Strickland at middleweight, \u201cRemember the<br \/>\nName\u201d wants to share the Octagon with the fellow American and make<br \/>\nhim \u201cbleed\u201d someday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>No Going Back<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cEven though the clown apologized, \u2018I apologized to my Muslim fans,<br \/>\nI was just promoting a fight.\u2019 No, it\u2019s not promoting a fight when<br \/>\nyou\u2019re talking about religion,\u201d <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Muhammad-Said-319053\">Muhammad<br \/>\nSaid<\/a> on <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pmgYbuwJBnc?si=TuQV9nuAOwMb0tLR&amp;t=250\">YouTube<\/a>. \u201cHe always plays that role of saying<br \/>\nstupid stuff and then afterward, \u2018I love this guy, this guy\u2019s the<br \/>\nbest,\u2019 blah blah. No. When you talk about religion, talk about<br \/>\nfamily, that hits different. I hope to one day step in the cage<br \/>\nwith that clown before it\u2019s all said and done and just make him<br \/>\nbleed.\u201d<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pmgYbuwJBnc?si=IdScFISFdB_u77tV\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belal Muhammad refuses to accept Sean Strickland\u2019s apology to Muslims. Strickland (31-7) has made Islamophobic comments on multiple occasions in the past. Strickland also targeted Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s (15-1) religion ahead of their UFC 328 fight last weekend. However, Strickland apologized to Chimaev after dethroning him via split decision. Strickland also apologized to his fans across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}