{"id":658920,"date":"2026-05-09T02:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658920\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:13:12","slug":"sean-strickland-accuses-josh-hokit-of-going-too-far-with-trash-talk-after-ilia-topuria-presser-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658920\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland accuses Josh Hokit of going &#8216;too far&#8217; with trash talk after Ilia Topuria presser altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland believes there\u2019s a line that even he won\u2019t cross, and Josh Hokit successfully crossed it.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Strickland and UFC middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev were the stars of UFC 328 fight week after trading barbs for months. The two UFC 328 headliners were at the center of one of the wildest press conferences in Mixed Martial Arts history, with dozens of law enforcement officers on hand to keep Chimaev and Strickland separated.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s ceremonial weigh-in faceoff was more of the same between Chimaev and Strickland, as the two sides threw verbal jabs at each other one final time before fight night. Just before the UFC 328 ceremonial weigh-in, tensions skyrocketed at the first pre-fight press conference for UFC Freedom 250 next month.<\/p>\n<p>Heavyweight Josh Hokit got into it with Derrick Lewis, UFC lightweight champion Ilia Topuria, and Alex Pereira during a wild presser. Topuria tried to attack Hokit at one point after the controversial heavyweight brought up some of Topuria\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/bryce-mitchell\/bryce-mitchell-eviscerates-ilia-topuria-domestic-violence-allegations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent personal issues<\/a> outside of the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p>Like Hokit, Strickland is never afraid to push the envelope on behalf of fight promo, but even some of the brashest athletes have a line they won\u2019t cross.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Coming from me\u2019\u2026Sean Strickland\u2019s surprising reaction to Josh Hokit presser<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SStricklandMMA\/status\/2052889734888968392?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tweet<\/a>, Strickland shared a surprising reaction to Hokit\u2019s viral moments at the UFC Freedom 250 press conference.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is wild coming from me but Josh goes way too far,\u201d Strickland said of Hokit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChandler\u2019s wife, Ilia Topuria\u2019s ex\u2026I know it\u2019s the WWE thing but it\u2019s too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Strickland scolded Hokit\u2019s antics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/sean-strickland\/sean-strickland-compares-josh-hokit-jake-paul-latest-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as a \u2018WWE skit\u2019<\/a>, to which the heavyweight responded by challenging the former middleweight titleholder to a fight. As of this writing, Hokit hasn\u2019t responded to Strickland\u2019s critical tweet.<\/p>\n<p>What is your prediction for Josh Hokit vs. Derrick Lewis at UFC Freedom 250? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland believes there\u2019s a line that even he won\u2019t cross, and Josh Hokit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,62454,785,43022,85,787,266293,263470],"class_list":["post-658920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-josh-hokit","tag-mma","tag-sean-strickland","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-328","tag-ufc-freedom-250"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658920","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=658920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}