More than 125 million people tuned in to the performance, with many of them praising Bad Bunny – real name Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio – while some, including President Donald Trump<\/a>, lashed out at the performance.<\/p>\n Since the performance, others have given their opinions on Bad Bunny’s half-time show, with UFC<\/a> fighter Strickland offering his take ahead of his upcoming fight on Saturday night.<\/p>\n As is often the case with Strickland, his view included various controversial comments that has caused outrage online, with many fans calling for the UFC to cut him from the organisation. <\/p>\n Throughout his UFC career, Strickland has been massively outspoken about his controversial views, often playing into them for comedic effect on social media.<\/p>\n But it appears he may have finally taken things too far as he used homophobic slurs to describe Bad Bunny while refusing to acknowledge his name.<\/p>\n Speaking ahead of his fight with Anthony \u2018Fluffy\u2019 Hernandez, Strickland said: \u201cI don\u2019t even want to say that f****t\u2019s name. Because like it\u2019s just like; somebody give me his name. Say his name, I don\u2019t want to say it. You know who I\u2019m talking about. <\/p>\n “The half time show guy, the Puerto Rican, right? Puerto Rican?\u2026.. Bro, yeah, that f***ing f****t. Like it\u2019s so crazy that this is America now. Like back in the day, dude, the NFL was like the f***ing standard of being a f***ing man. <\/p>\n “Now every f***ing year, the NFL, I think they all get together around a table, say \u2018you know what guys, how do we f**king ruin this sport? How do we gay it up? How do we f***ing ruin it? <\/p>\n “Well I\u2019ll tell you what, why not bring in a gay foreigner who doesn\u2019t speak f***ing English and then to have him perform it? Like get the f**k out of here. It’s like the NFL is pathetic these days. <\/p>\n “Even like the NFL players f****ing probably hate it. Yeah, no, the NFL is gay. I think we can all agree NFL got real gay lately.\u201d<\/p>\n Not only are the former UFC middleweight champion’s comments disgustingly offensive, labelling Ocasio as a ‘foreigner’ is factually incorrect as Puerto Rico is a part of the United States.<\/p>\n Earlier in the press conference Strickland also criticised the recent announcement that UFC legends Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano would be fighting each other<\/a> on a Most Valuable Promotions MMA<\/a> card.<\/p>\n He claimed that women have been empowered \u201ctoo much\u201d to the point where they\u2019ve \u201cruined society” and suggested they should fight \u201chalf naked.\u201d <\/p>\n Following the comments, many UFC fans took to social media to call on the UFC to cut the American fighter, particularly given the recent major broadcasting deal with Paramount+. <\/p>\n Posting on X, one fan wrote: “Absolute sexist sack of s**. With a loss this weekend, it’s time to cut Sean Strickland:<\/p>\n While one added: “So help me understand how the UFC can continue to employ Sean Strickland after his last presser, openly bashing gay people, women, and people from foreign nations? Not a good look at all. I mean the guy was always a terrible person.<\/p>\n “I know Paramount can\u2019t be happy.”<\/p>\n And another claimed: “Very much looking forward to a time in the UFC\u2019s near future where Sean Strickland is not on the roster and no longer relevant.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC is facing pressure to cut Sean Strickland after the former champion used homophobic slurs when reacting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,43022,85,7508,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-490194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sean-strickland","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-super-bowl","15":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490194","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=490194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Bad](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0YTkwZDA1YWQ0MWE1NGE3MS9ibHQ4MjdkMzU0.webp\"\/)
Bad Bunny performed at Super Bowl LX (Credit:Getty)<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0YTkwZDA1YWQ0MWE1NGE3MS9ibHRlMDUwYmE1.webp\"\/)
The UFC is facing calls to cut Sean Strickland. (Image: Mike Roach\/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)<\/p>\n