UFC middleweight champion, Sean Strickland, said a lot of nasty things about the upcoming showdown between Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano, a five-round headliner that tops the MVP MMA event on Netflix this weekend in Los Angeles. Then “Tarzan” had the nerve to ask for a pair of free tickets to Inuit Dome to watch “Rowdy” and “Conviction” compete.
MVP co-founder, Nakisa Bidarian, was not impressed.
“I got a request today from Sean Strickland,” Badarian told MMA Junkie at the MVP open workouts. “I’ve got to talk
to Ronda because he was very derogatory about Ronda and Gina – disrespectful, saying inappropriate things. While we’d love to have him as a UFC champion, and I think he puts on a tremendous act, you can’t disrespect the headliners and then call for free tickets.”
Strickland’s longtime coach, Eric Nicksick, insisted Strickland wanted tickets to support friend and Xtreme Couture training partner Francis Ngannou, who fights fellow UFC veteran Philipe Lins on the “Rousey vs. Carano” main card on Sat. night (May 16) in the “City of Angels.”
“Sure, yeah, he can come,” Rousey said with a laugh. “I’m glad that he has to go through me now. I feel very cool about that. But yeah, sure, come on over. We can convert anyone.”
Credit the power of prayer!
Strickland is just a couple of days removed from his Khamzat Chimaev victory atop the UFC 328 event in Newark. “Tarzan” attributed his pre-fight trash talk, some of which ruffled a few feathers, to promotional hype in an effort to “sell the fight.” Or maybe it was all just a hallucination from a punch-drunk middleweight.
For the finalized “Rousey vs. Carano” fight card on Netflix click here.
