In an interview with McKenzie Pavacich following the fight, \u201cTarzan\u201d made it clear his days of fighting outside of the United States are over, even if it\u2019s against middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe and him are the fight to make, you know?\u201d Strickland said. \u201cI feel like we need to bring the belt back to America. We need a real f–king American to represent this organization.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not leaving this country ever again,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m an American. I\u2019m not leaving. I\u2019m not traveling. I\u2019m not vacationing. I\u2019m gonna die on this f–king soil. So it will be in America. Where ever the f–k that is, I\u2019ll be there.\u201d<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not too sure how eager UFC\u2019s new broadcast partner Paramount+ would be for that. This was their first \u2018Strickland Fight Week\u2019 and sources say they were not happy with the heat Sean generated<\/a> with his many controversial takes.<\/a> It got to the point where UFC shut his mic off<\/a> during the post-fight press conference, which is a first in the current \u2018free speech\u2019 era of the promotion.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll see if Paramount\u2019s going to call Dana and get me cancelled,\u201d Strickland said. \u201cHey, I didn\u2019t make Star Trek and Halo, you guys ruined that s–t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an interview with McKenzie Pavacich following the fight, \u201cTarzan\u201d made it clear his days of fighting outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-492749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}