UFC President Dana White didn’t mince phrases Saturday night time when he was requested concerning the melee involving fighters Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis.
The 2 fought within the stands forward of UFC 297 on Jan. 29. They have been in attendance for UFC 296, which was main-evented by Colby Covington and Leon Edwards. White took accountability for the brawl, blaming himself for placing the 2 heavy hitters subsequent to one another.
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“What sort of an a–hole sits Strickland subsequent to du Plessis,” White requested rhetorically. “This a–hole, that’s who. … I do each seating project each week. How f—ing silly is that? I imply, significantly, I don’t know what people you’ll be able to sit Strickland subsequent to, however undoubtedly not Du Plessis. I don’t understand how I missed that.”
“It is my job to ensure that stuff doesn’t occur. If I wasn’t an a–hole, these two wouldn’t have been sitting subsequent to one another. It blows my thoughts that I let that slip.”
Du Plessis was booing Strickland earlier than the latter stood up, pointed an imaginary gun in his course and fired away. That’s when Strickland rotated and began having phrases with Du Plessis. Strickland then informed these in between him and Du Plessis – at the least one child was within the row behind him – to maneuver over.
With cameras nonetheless educated on them, Strickland approached Du Plessis and began to throw punches, touchdown his proper hand on Du Plessis’ head quite a few occasions.
The feud went to social media afterward, too.
“I’m going laborious on everybody I do know this, izzy mouth feeding his canine, Dricus kissing his coach and grabbing his cup,” Strickland wrote on X, calling out fellow UFC fighter Israel Adesanya within the course of. “[Sean] Omalley (sic) speaking about sharing his spouse in a podcast. You’re a person, on a world stage doing this in public.”
Du Plessis fired proper again together with his personal.
“Now I perceive why you’ve a 33% end price, you hit like a woman, additionally 20 January the safety received’t be there to save lots of your life once I’m on prime #rentfree,” Du Plessis tweeted.
Strickland is 28-5 in his MMA profession with a 15-5 mark in UFC. Du Plessis is 20-2 all-time and 6-0 in UFC.
UFC 297 is about for Toronto.
Fox Information’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.