It doesn\u2019t appear that Sean Strickland is going to be front and center for the UFC White House card on June 14.<\/p>\n
The always outspoken UFC middleweight champion took to social media to reveal he\u2019s been banned from the event while claiming it all stems from his criticism aimed at President Donald Trump and his longstanding relationship with Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While UFC officials have been adamant that only so many seats are going to be made available for the event \u2014 there were no ticket sales and fans aren\u2019t allowed to attend \u2014 Strickland apparently planned on going but that\u2019s no longer happening.<\/p>\n
\u201cUFC at the White House with [Benjamin Netanyahu] in the audience. Straight slop,\u201d Strickland wrote on Instagram. \u201cTo be fair, they did ban me. But when you make fun of the leaders of America, they tend to be a little bit petty. By leaders, I mean Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Strickland has been rather vocal in his opposition to the ongoing conflict in Iran after he openly supported Trump\u2019s re-election in 2024.<\/p>\n
But now he says his words have come back to haunt him, at least regarding Strickland potentially attending what is expected to go down as the biggest UFC event of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only male American champ banned at the White House because I said Trump is owned by [Benjaimin Netanyahu]. That\u2019s not public opinion, it\u2019s fact.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked for specifics on what he said that earned him the ban, Strickland added, \u201cI made fun of Israel and [Jeffrey] Epstein.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now the UFC hasn\u2019t actually responded to Strickland\u2019s claims so there\u2019s no telling if he\u2019s actually banned or just not attending the event.<\/p>\n
Either way, Strickland had no problem voicing his frustrations and it appears he won\u2019t be backing down from his current rhetoric aimed at Trump and his relationship with Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It doesn\u2019t appear that Sean Strickland is going to be front and center for the UFC White House…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-713345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713345","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=713345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}