Sean Strickland<\/a> also received a $5000 fine for his prominent role in a viral post-fight brawl at Tuff-N-Uff 145 in June. <\/p>\n The 34-year-old can reduce his ban to 4.5 months by completing an anger management course.<\/p>\n On Thursday, Sean Strickland issued a statement confirming his plan to take anger management.<\/p>\n Apparently, Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s recent middleweight title win<\/a> influenced his decision-making process. <\/p>\n Strickland wants to return to competition as soon as possible to face the Russian fighter, who jokingly labelled himself a \u2018terrorist\u2019 in the build-up to UFC 319.<\/a> <\/p>\n Well! Ready to put this to bed and get back in the cage,\u201d he wrote on Instagram. <\/p>\n \u201cCan\u2019t have a terrorist as a champion, sadly, I think I\u2019m the only one to change that. <\/p>\n \u201cAppreciate the commission for getting this done.. <\/p>\n \u201cAnger management here I come\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s next fight <\/p>\n Sean Strickland doesn\u2019t appear to be in the running to face Khamzat Chimaev<\/a> next. <\/p>\n It appears he\u2019s got work to do after being battered by Dricus du Plessis at UFC 312<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n However, he could end up jumping to the front of the queue because the new champion hopes to fight at UFC 321<\/a> on October 25. <\/p>\n The other four middleweight title contenders are currently tied up with fights against each other.<\/p>\n Nassourdine Imavov<\/a>\u00a0will fight\u00a0Caio Borralho<\/a>\u00a0in the main event of UFC Paris on September 6.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, Dana White announced another huge middleweight fight<\/a>\u00a0between\u00a0Reinier de Ridder<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Anthony Hernandez<\/a>, who will headline UFC Vancouver on October 18.<\/p>\n It seems highly unlikely that any of the 185lb foursome will be fit and ready to fight Chimaev at the end of October. So, Strickland may get the call if the UFC decides to press ahead with a quick turnaround for their new 185lb king.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland promises he\u2019ll be back to MMA before his six-month suspension is up. On Thursday, it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,5899,638,35696,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-88406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-khamzat-chimaev","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sean-strickland","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88406","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=88406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sean](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2155666695-1-1024x735.jpg\")
Photo by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC via Getty ImagesSean Strickland reacts to his ban <\/p>\n