{"id":768706,"date":"2026-06-29T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768706\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:24:18","slug":"shara-bullet-disses-us-only-sean-strickland-hes-just-domestic-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768706\/","title":{"rendered":"Shara Bullet disses US-only Sean Strickland: \u2018He\u2019s just domestic champion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">That\u2019s a bit of a problem for \u201cBullet,\u201d because current middleweight champion Sean Strickland has repeatedly said he has no interest in fighting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/424196\/usa-or-no-way-sean-strickland-vows-to-never-fight-abroad-again\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anywhere other than America.<\/a> According to \u201cTarzan,\u201d fighting twice in Australia, twice in Brazil, and twice in Canada during his UFC career was enough business travel for him. If someone wants to fight him or compete for the 185 pound strap while he holds it, it\u2019ll have to be in America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHe\u2019s like a domestic champion. Just a home boy who acts like a big hero in his gym,\u201d Magomedov told Red Corner MMA. \u201cFor example, if they invited him to Azerbaijan he wouldn\u2019t come, because he\u2019s scared. He won\u2019t leave America. And if we had to fight, he would say, \u2018Come to America,\u2019 because he knows I can\u2019t go there now. So he\u2019s just a domestic champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIf he ever comes to Abu Dhabi, he will ask for five security guards. Bust most likely he won\u2019t even go there. Like many other\u2019s he\u2019d be like, \u2018I\u2019m an American, so I will only fight here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cBullet\u201d is 6-1 in the UFC but still not in the official top 15 rankings. Neither was his UFC Baku opponent, Michel Pereira, so there\u2019s a good chance Magomedov will remain unranked, and thus further away from a title fight for more reasons than Strickland\u2019s refusal to travel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Shara has other reasons for having Strickland on his mind. Michel Pereira was training with at XTreme Couture alongside Strickland, who was shown switching up his style and throwing spinning backfists and kicks like \u201cBullet\u201d in footage from the gym.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI don\u2019t think he can do it like me,\u201d Magomedov said. \u201cIt was an imitation, if a pale one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The preparation wasn\u2019t quite enough as Magomedov beat Pereira via 29-28&#215;3 decision in Baku \u2014 although we\u2019re sure Strickland may have something to say about the way Magomedov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/453779\/ufc-baku-the-morning-after-fouls-galore-as-herb-dean-drops-the-ball-yet-again\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fouled his way<\/a> through the fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s a bit of a problem for \u201cBullet,\u201d because current middleweight champion Sean Strickland has repeatedly said he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-768706","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\/768706","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=768706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}