{"id":770214,"date":"2026-06-30T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/770214\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:18:08","slug":"watch-ufc-champion-sean-strickland-choke-fan-on-a-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/770214\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch UFC champion Sean Strickland choke fan on a beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sean Strickland is living his best life, and that means getting to display his wrestling and submission skills against fans on a beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Less than two months after winning the UFC middleweight title, Strickland was filmed giving a fan the taste of grappling him in a playful contest on a beach, taking him down face first on the sand before getting his back and sinking in a standing rear-naked choke to force the tap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Strickland\u2019s next official UFC bout is still yet to be announced by the promotion. Meanwhile, Khamzat Chimaev is on social media asking Strickland to \u201caccept the fight\u201d and rematch him after their recent split decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cAccept the fight, don\u2019t run, I\u2019ll beat you anyway,\u201d Chimaev wrote on Monday. \u201cThe sooner this happens, the easier it will be to breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland is living his best life, and that means getting to display his wrestling and submission skills&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770215,"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-770214","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\/770214","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=770214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}