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Brett OkamotoJul 23, 2025, 07:55 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was also a producer on the 30 for 30 film: “Chuck and Tito,” which looked back at the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare time.<\/p>\n Former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland<\/a> has been suspended from competition after getting into an altercation with another fighter at an MMA event in June in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n The Nevada State Athletic Commission has suspended Strickland, 34, indefinitely for his role in the incident. It is common practice for the commission to suspend a licensed athlete or cornerman until issuing an official punishment at a disciplinary hearing. Strickland’s case was on the commission’s monthly schedule Wednesday, but it voted to push his hearing to a future date.<\/p>\n The incident occurred at a Tuff-N-Uff event June 29 in Las Vegas. Strickland entered the cage after a fighter he coaches, Miles Hunsinger<\/a>, suffered a submission loss to Luis Hernandez<\/a>. Immediately after the win, Hernandez taunted Hunsinger’s corner, which prompted a response from Strickland and fellow UFC fighter Chris Curtis<\/a>. Video captured Strickland throwing a pair of punches at Hernandez.<\/p>\n The UFC will almost certainly not announce a fight for Strickland until the matter is resolved. He has not fought since coming up short in a bid to recapture the 185-pound championship against Dricus Du Plessis<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brett OkamotoJul 23, 2025, 07:55 PM ET CloseBrett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-18267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}