{"id":5011,"date":"2025-07-19T05:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/5011\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T05:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:05:08","slug":"sean-strickland-suspended-by-nevada-athletic-commision-after-attacking-regional-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/5011\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland suspended by Nevada Athletic Commision after attacking regional fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sean Strickland is in hot water with the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Strickland received a temporary suspension after attacking a regional fighter in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Strickland’s temporary suspension is expected to be extended at Wednesday’s commission meeting, according to MMA Fighting<\/a>. Strickland’s full punishment won’t be decided until a later date. Potential penalties include a longer suspension and\/or a fine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The former UFC middleweight champion got in hot water after an incident on June 29. Strickland and teammate Chris Curtis were cornering regional fighter Miles Hunsinger at a Tuff-N-Uff event in Las Vegas. Undefeated prospect Luis Hernandez taunted Hunsinger’s corner after submitting him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Strickland and Curtis rushed the cage to confront Hernandez. Strickland threw several strikes at Hernandez, one of which appeared to land. Security intervened shortly after and regained order.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hernandez previously told MMA Fighting<\/a>\u00a0he didn’t want Strickland penalized, despite the NSAC’s eventual decision to suspend the UFC star.<\/p>\n

“I would never want anything to happen to these guys because I actually like them, and I hope they watch this,” Hernandez said. “I have nothing against Sean, nothing against Chris, nothing against Xtreme Couture…<\/p>\n

“I hope the commission does not take this out on them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Sean Strickland is in hot water with the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Strickland received a temporary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-5011","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\/5011","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=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}