{"id":478585,"date":"2026-02-14T02:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478585\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:32:07","slug":"ufcs-sean-strickland-knocked-out-comedian-preacher-lawson-during-sparring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478585\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC\u2019s Sean Strickland knocked out comedian Preacher Lawson during sparring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sean Strickland has been up to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/2\/9\/24067912\/fraud-check-sean-strickland-bloodies-social-media-star-sneako-in-ufc-pi-beatdown-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">petty sparring ways<\/a> and this time it involved a well-known professional comedian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earlier this week, comedian Preacher Lawson put out a standup bit in which he talks about the time he sparred Strickland, who is UFC\u2019s former middleweight champion. Of course, Lawson made some funny and clever jokes along the way, but the punchline was still him getting knocked out by Strickland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lawson said he came to the gym with the intent to spar with some amateur boxers as he has some standup experience. The comedian quickly noticed a collection of UFC fighters in the gym, which included Strickland. Of course, Strickland had to make a smart comment about Lawson\u2019s vegan shirt, which was part of the standup routine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Eventually, the two men crossed paths inside of the ring and Lawson found himself going toe-to-toe with the former UFC champion. The comedian joked that he was able to bob and weave just a little bit before Strickland connected with a punch to the side of the head and knocked him out. Lawson claimed he went flying across the ring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check it out below along with Strickland\u2019s recent response on social media:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cCouple things,\u201d wrote Strickland. \u201c1. You\u2019re big and black, I just assumed you were a badass boxer. 2. You kept putting your head down and the only shot was behind your ear which was clean. But I was right about one thing!!! You are big and black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lawson caught wind of Strickland\u2019s response and shed some more light on the one-sided sparring session. See below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYou did say that you hit me behind the ear, which is legal. That\u2019s true,\u201d said Lawson. \u201cYou did not hit me in the back of the head. I made it up. I made it up because I thought it would be funny and I didn\u2019t think you\u2019d see it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland has been up to his petty sparring ways and this time it involved a well-known professional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-478585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478585","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=478585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}