{"id":40275,"date":"2026-09-03T04:08:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Sean-Sharaf-calls-out-UFC-over-Gable-Steveson-promotion-202640"},"modified":"2026-09-03T04:08:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:08:44","slug":"sean-sharaf-calls-out-ufc-over-gable-steveson-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/sean-sharaf-calls-out-ufc-over-gable-steveson-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Sharaf calls out UFC over Gable Steveson promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sean
\nSharaf<\/a> questions the
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a>\u2019s selective promotion of
\nfighters.<\/p>\n

Sharaf (4-2) is scheduled to fight Gable
\nSteveson<\/a> (4-0) at UFC
\n331<\/a> on Sept. 19 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Steveson
\nrecently did a collaboration on Instagram with UFC content creator
\nNina Marie Daniele, aka Nina Drama, drawing the ire of his upcoming
\nfoe.<\/p>\n

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Sean Sharaf questions UFC treatment ahead of Gable Steveson
\nfight<\/h2>\n

Sharaf questioned the UFC over the influencer\u2019s repeated
\ncollaborations with Steveson. Sharaf, an ex-Marine, wonders if he\u2019s
\nunworthy of promotion and slammed the organization for allegedly
\npushing Steveson, who has been accused of sexual assault.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is like the 4th collab they do with him, what\u2019s up with that
\nUFC guess Marines aren\u2019t worthy of interviews just r**ists,\u201d Sharaf
\nwrote in the comments section of Nina Drama\u2019s video.<\/p>\n

Steveson and his teammate Dylan Martinez were arrested on charges
\nof sexual assault in 2019. However, they were subsequently released
\nwith no criminal charges filed due to lack of evidence. Steveson
\nwent on to win gold in freestyle wrestling at the Tokyo
\nOlympics.<\/p>\n

He transitioned to MMA last year and made it to the UFC with three
\nfirst-round finishes. Steveson stopped Elisha
\nEllison<\/a> in the first round of his UFC debut this past July.
\nMeanwhile, Sharaf came to the UFC as an undefeated prospect with
\nfour first-round finishes, but has suffered knockout losses in both
\nhis UFC fights so far.<\/p>\n

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Gable
\nSteveson<\/a>\u2019s upcoming opponent Sean Sharaf<\/a>
\nleft a comment under an Instagram video of his collab with Nina
\nDrama \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is like the 4th collab they do with him, what\u2019s up with that
\nUFC guess Marines aren\u2019t worthy of interviews just r*pists \ud83e\udd21\u201d<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude33\ud83d\ude33\ud83d\ude33 pic.twitter.com\/vTzkMW0Wgh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ACD MMA (@acdmma_)
\nSeptember 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Sean Sharaf questions the Ultimate Fighting Championship\u2019s selective promotion of fighters. Sharaf (4-2) is scheduled to fight Gable Steveson (4-0) at UFC 331 on Sept. 19 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Steveson recently did a collaboration on Instagram with UFC content creator Nina Marie Daniele, aka Nina Drama, drawing the ire of his upcoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40275","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\/40275","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=40275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}