{"id":922336,"date":"2026-10-09T22:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/922336\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T22:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:32:12","slug":"sean-strickland-issues-ultimatum-over-ufc-pay-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/922336\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland issues ultimatum over UFC pay dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sean Strickland has doubled down on his friction with the UFC over pay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI will not fight or sign any contract until I get this figured out,\u201d Strickland wrote. \u201cHopefully we get it figured out soon. Thanks for all your support it helps!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Strickland has taken to social media since September to discuss how <a href=\"http:\/\/Back%20to%20the%20top%20of%20the%20middleweight%20division%20since%20beating%20Khamzat%20Chimaev\" rel=\"nofollow\">he appeared unhappy<\/a> with his current pay in negotiations for a title defense against Nassourdine Imavov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Strickland is on a two-fight winning streak after finishing Anthony Hernandez and then edging Khamzat Chimaev to regain the middleweight title. Strickland said he\u2019s even considering to drop his UFC title to complete his current deal at 205 pounds to then leave the promotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cContemplating just going to 205, knocking out my contract and scrapping with Jake Paul,\u201d Strickland wrote on Wednesday. \u201cThat sounds fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland has doubled down on his friction with the UFC over pay. \u201cI will not fight or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922337,"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-922336","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\/922336","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=922336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}