Fighter advocate Sean Strickland beefs with Mike Perry, admits UFC pay ‘utter garbage’

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Former Final Combating Championship (UFC) Middleweight kingpin Sean Strickland is a little bit of an enigma. Take, for instance, his relationship with Naked Knuckle Combating Championship (BKFC) star Mike Perry. Within the final couple months, Strickland has respectfully expressed curiosity in preventing Perry and seeing how good he’s, however he’s additionally trashed BKFC at a latest press convention.

“How a lot would I f—king battle naked knuckle for?” Strickland mentioned. “Not nothing they might pay me. They’re paying their guys s—t. F—king breaking their arms, breaking their orbitals, making like a pair thousand bucks.”

Former UFC champion and present BKFC athlete Eddie Alvarez already clapped again at Strickland, and now Perry has responded as nicely. Reacting to the feedback above, Perry argued, “Strickland, he’s preventing for the UFC for pesos, and I’m getting paid over right here. He’s at all times posting movies on Instagram the place he walks outdoors of his storage or his entrance door, and anyone is in his driveway and he’s making an attempt to battle a naked knuckle at no cost proper there. What are you speaking about Sean?”

Strickland responded, virtually assembly Perry midway. Strickland defined that he’s utilizing his platform as an advocate to enhance “utter rubbish” UFC pay, however he additionally insists most BKFC athletes are getting paid lower than their UFC counterparts.

“UFC pay is utter rubbish,” Strickland wrote in response. “lol their [sic] signing guys at 10/10 that ought to be prison … however the overwhelming majority of BKFC fighters are getting paid manner lower than that … As a ufc fighter I advocate for higher pay for me and the whole roster … It’s best to do the identical on your guys.”

He continued, “Whereas I’m on my cleaning soap field from a poor man who turned kinda a wealthy man upon getting capital it simply snow balls. These elites might most likely by no means take a paycheck once more and simply make 500k a yr … but they nonetheless line their financial institution accounts with thousands and thousands that they’ll by no means want or spend. In all industries.”

Simply over per week in the past, Strickland returned to the win column by defeating Paulo Costa through unanimous resolution at UFC 302. He’s insistent that he’ll sit out till he receives a title shot after the win. Perry, in the meantime, remains to be unbeaten in naked knuckle boxing and most just lately stopped Thiago Alves in fast vogue (watch right here).

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