{"id":694178,"date":"2026-05-25T20:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694178\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:08:11","slug":"sean-strickland-walks-out-of-adin-ross-mma-event-in-disgust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694178\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland walks out of Adin Ross MMA event in disgust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Strickland walked out of an MMA event hosted by streamer Adin Ross and immediately took to social media to express his regret for attending.<\/p>\n<p>The former UFC <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/middleweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">middleweight<\/a> champion left the show early and posted that he felt &#8220;sick to my stomach&#8221; after being there, according to Sherdog. &#8220;I hate myself and I feel like less of a man after being here,&#8221; Strickland wrote. &#8220;Oh God why did I agree to this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Strickland&#8217;s criticism of streamer culture<\/p>\n<p>Strickland expanded his critique beyond the event itself, targeting the broader streamer community. &#8220;You take these streamers, they have this massive following and you just know that they&#8217;re the next generations of Americans,&#8221; he said in a video clip. &#8220;It&#8217;s so f*cking sad to think that the streamer community is gonna inherit America. It&#8217;s so bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The outspoken fighter has built a reputation for unfiltered commentary on social media and in interviews. His appearance at Ross&#8217; event marked a rare crossover between traditional MMA and influencer-driven combat sports programming.<\/p>\n<p>Strickland has not publicly responded to any reaction from Ross or event organizers. No details on his next UFC booking have been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Sean-Strickland-sick-to-my-stomach-after-attending-Adin-Ross-MMA-event-201314\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sherdog.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland walked out of an MMA event hosted by streamer Adin Ross and immediately took to social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-694178","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\/694178","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=694178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}