How trash talking brought Sean Strickland close to jail

UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland revealed how trash talking nearly put him in jail recently.

The former underdog beat Israel Adesanya last year to win the title and is yet to defend it against anyone.

Strickland disclosed he nearly got himself into jail during an interview that took place in the wake of an unprofessional fight with Dricus Du Plessis.

The champion had run towards the middleweight contender to reply with fists because Du Plessis said the following:
‘You think your dad beat the s*** out of you? Your dad doesn’t have s*** on me … every childhood memory you have is going to come back when I’m in there with you.’

Strickland had been claiming that his father abused him and his mother during his boyhood.

Speaking later to Theo Von, Strickland said threw more light on the abuse he suffered and what nearly brought him to jail.

He said:

‘I was in probably third or fourth grade, I used to always sleep in my mom’s room because I thought my dad was going to kill my mom. So I would sleep by the door, I’d sleep under the bed. I’d sleep by the door because I thought my dad was going to kill my mom.’

‘One day, it was so f***** up, they just got in a bad fight, it was like third, fourth grade, my dad was like “f*** that, he’s not sleeping in here tonight, kick him out.” So I like army crawled under the bed, and I’m sleeping under the bed. I’m like laying under the bed as they’re fighting, because I think my dad was going to kill my mom.

‘My dad gets on top of my mom, and I remember he said, “I’m going to f****** kill you tonight.” Maybe it’s just rough sex, we don’t know at this moment.

‘I’m under the bed, and he starts strangling her. I get out, and the only thing I can see is a guitar, I just f******* crack him in the head and call the cops.

‘I run down the street to call the cops, he’s arrested, and my dumb ass mom bails him out of jail. I would say that’s the tip of the iceberg.’

‘I remember I used to just sit there and hug my mom’s leg in the kitchen. We had this little nook, and she would go in the nook, and I would sit there and all night long, I’m by the feet of my mom and my dad [is saying], ‘I’m going to f****** kill you.’ He would talk about burning her face with acid.

‘I’m in elementary school. He’d always tell her, ‘If you cheat on me’ — and she probably was cheating on him — ‘If you cheat on me, I’m going to cut you up and put you in a bottle of acid and bury you.’

‘Now you fast forward this, I don’t go to school. I’m up until 3 in the morning, and I couldn’t stay awake in school. I stopped believing in God when I was in elementary school. I was laying in bed crying thinking about killing myself.

‘There can’t be a f****** God here. How is there a God. Why would I be in this situation if there was a God? There ain’t no f****** god. My earliest memories. When I think back when I was a kid, I can’t recall one good memory, not one f****** good memory as a kid.’

‘It’s one of the things people don’t understand is trauma. People understand, when I talk about, ‘I’d kill a man,’ it’s like you don’t understand. When you go through that level of trauma, you just greet the world differently.’

Strickland was glad that cameras did not record the bite he allegedly gave to Du Plessis during their unscheduled fight.

‘I’m so happy they didn’t get it from a right angle – I bit him. I s*** you not. Whenever he went into me, I remember at that moment, he tackles me and right there, you see my head goes up toward him, I started thinking how can hurt this man? I’m going take a f****** chunk out of him. I’m going to bite his f****** ear off.

‘I remember telling myself at that moment, “Sean, you can’t do that, that’s something you can’t walk away from.” If you do that, then I’m going to jail.’

Many argue that Strickland deserved what he got from Du Plessis, as he is known to make others sad with his trash talks.

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