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Sean Strickland isn’t afraid to push somebody’s buttons.
But it appears that even the reigning UFC middleweight champion has his breaking point.
Strickland claims that challenger Dricus Du Plessis crossed that breaking point, which is what caused their infamous fight in the crowd at UFC 296.
“There’s some things that are off limits,” Strickland said while addressing the situation on comedian Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast. “You don’t really talk about a man’s wife, you don’t talk about a man’s kids, and you don’t about a kid being abused. These things are all off limits. Once he crossed that … I tried to f—— ignore it. I was boiling.”
“Whenever Dricus goes on there and he jokes about that s— dude, you have no idea. I’ll f—— kill you, you have no idea. I think the issue is too, when you’re a kid and you’re made to be a victim your whole life, as an adult, you’re like never again. I’ll f—— kill you.”
Sean Strickland-Dricus Du Plessis Brawl Came In Response To Domestic Violence Joke
His answer came after Du Plessis made light of Strickland’s history of growing up in a violent household.
“You think your dad beat the s— out of you,” Du Plessis yelled at Strickland in a pre-fight press conference. “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 then proceeded to talk about the alleged violence he witnessed as a child at the hands of his father.
“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,” Strickland revealed. “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.”