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Former UFC Middleweight Champion Sean Strickland is back in action tonight at UFC 302, facing Paulo Costa in the co-main event of the show.
No one can ever accuse Strickland of not speaking his mind and the UFC star has recently taken aim at the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championships (BKFC).
“Bare knuckle, you want to talk about f*cking crooks,” Strickland said during the UFC 302 media day (transcript via Damon Martin of MMA Fighting). “They’re paying their guys shit. Like [BKFC] is one of those organizations where you hear these numbers, it’s all bullshit. If you look at the lowest rung of the guys, they’re breaking their hands, breaking their orbitals, and they’re making a couple thousand bucks. Bare knuckle’s f*cking trash.”
There are many former UFC fighters who currently compete in the BKFC, with the most notable of them being Mike Perry.
Perry would respond to what Strickland said with a video on Instagram:
“Paulo Costa said he’s coming to put a beating onto Sean Strickland this weekend. I’m rocking with that Brazilian power. ‘Borrachinha’ in the building! I think he has more tools in MMA to get the job done. Let’s go Paulo, show him what I’m talking about.”
