UFC middleweight contender Sean Strickland has inflamed social media after stating that he would consider himself a ‘failure’ if he had a gay son
Sean Strickland, who has emerged as one of the UFC’s more controversial figures in recent months, says that he would consider himself a ‘failure as a man’ if he raised a homosexual son in a string of tweets overnight.
The Californian, who is currently in the midst of a five-fight win streak which has thrust him into the title picture at 185-pounds, has risen from relative obscurity to become one of the UFC’s most contentious mouthpieces.
But while the likes of Chael Sonnen and Colby Covington harnessed the mic to build their own careers towards world title opportunities, Strickland’s are more likely to set off alarm bells in the UFC’s PR department.
Earlier this year, the 30-year-old admitted that he would “like nothing more” than to kill one of his opponents inside of the cage, adding that “being a psychopath” is “f*ckng fun“.
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He also recently opened up on his disturbing background in which he was raised in a neo-Nazi environment, something he says that he is glad he managed to emerge from unscathed.
But the 24-3 fighter, who is set to return to the Octagon in early February against Jack Hermansson, rarely strays too far from the type of comments which attract deluges of criticism on social media, and he has again inflamed tensions with a spate of tweets regarding the homosexual community.