announcing his retirement from corner work<\/a> following his fighter Gillian Robertson\u2019s loss to strawweight champion Mackenzie Dern in Saturday\u2019s UFC 330 co-main event.<\/p>\nFollowing Din\u2019s comments, fans and media members criticized Thomas for choosing a low moment to abandon Robertson, who he\u2019s coached for years. Now, Strickland is adding his two cents and he\u2019s not being diplomatic about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cDin Thomas is a f*cking c*nt,\u201d Strickland wrote on Twitter. \u201cI\u2019ve had my ass kicked in multiple weight classes through my career and won two titles. You\u2019re a dickhead. It\u2019s probably better you retire. You\u2019re a shit coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou only lose when you quit. Din sounds like you\u2019re a f*cking loser.\u201d<\/p>\n
Strickland\u2019s response carries some weight given his own career experiences. As he pointed out, he began his career as a promising welterweight with an uneven record before moving up to 185 pounds where he established himself as a contender before breaking through and winning a UFC title with a memorable upset of Israel Adesanya in 2023. He is currently in his second reign as middleweight champion after defeating the previously unbeaten Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 328 this past May.<\/p>\n
Whether Thomas intended to slight Robertson or not, his retirement announcement came at an awkward time given how his fighter struggled in her five-round loss to Dern. Robertson went 5-0 after dropping down to 115 pounds to earn her title shot and was aiming to become Canada\u2019s first UFC champion since Georges St-Pierre.<\/p>\n
Strickland defended Robertson\u2019s effort replying to a Twitter commenter.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just a c*nt,\u201d Strickland said. \u201cGirl goes out there and tries to do something and you put her down. Dickhead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland has harsh words for Din Thomas after UFC 330. A former fighter and veteran MMA coach,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858709,"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-858708","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\/858708","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=858708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}