UFC 297: Strickland Vs. du Plessis

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Main Card:

Middleweight:	Sean Strickland (c)	Vs.	Dricus du Plessis
Women's Bantamweight:	Raquel Pennington	Vs.	Mayra Bueno Silva
Welterweight:	Neil Magny	Vs.	Mike Malott
Middleweight:	Chris Curtis	Vs.	Marc-André Barriault
Featherweight:	Arnold Allen	Vs.	Movsar Evloev

Prelims:

Bantamweight:	Brad Katona	Vs.	Garrett Armfield
Featherweight:	Charles Jourdain	Vs.	Sean Woodson
Catchweight (139.75 lb):	Serhiy Sidey	Vs.	Ramon Taveras
Women's Strawweight:	Gillian Robertson	Vs.	Polyana Viana

Welterweight:	Yohan Lainesse	Vs.	Sam Patterson
Women's Bantamweight:	Jasmine Jasudavicius	Vs.	Priscila Cachoeira
Catchweight (127.5 lb):	Malcolm Gordon	Vs.	Jimmy Flick

What an awful co-main, seems these women fights arbitrarily get high places in cards in spite of the UFC and Dana seemingly being "less woke".

 

[Phall]

UFC 297: Sean Strickland's homophobic tirade latest in UFC's ugly, uninhibited dive into culture wars​

The fight game has a long history of fighters pushing the limits of acceptable trash talk, but recent turns seem to have crossed the line​

https://www.cbssports.com/writers/brian-campbell/
In April 2021, nearly one year after UFC's decision to boldly push forward with business as usual despite the global fears of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dana White appeared on Fox News' "Hannity" for what amounted to a victory lap.

To White's credit, his decision made UFC the only sporting event in town for most of the spring and summer of 2020 as the promotion rallied to fulfill its minimum number of events dictated by the landmark five-year distribution deal signed with ESPN in 2018 (and renewed the following year) that reportedly pays UFC around $300 million per year.

A huge part of the celebratory rant delivered by White, an outspoken Republican who has publicly campaigned for long-time friend and former President Donald Trump, surrounded just how little interest sports fans have in politics (an ironic speech, of sorts, considering he was appearing on an unabashed far-right talk show) and went on to rail hard against "woke athletes" in other sports like the NFL and NBA.

"When people tune in to watch sports, they don't want to hear that crap" White said. "They don't want to hear what your opinions are or who you're voting for [or] what you're doing. They want to get away from everything in their life and they want to focus on two, three, four hours; however long the sport is when you turned it on.


"If you want to listen to that stuff, turn on any other station, you will hear all of that stuff you want to hear. When you tune in to UFC, you are there to see fights."

It can certainly be surmised that, at the time, White was weaponizing an anti-political stance in sports as a way to justify his decision making during such a polarizing time of misinformation and uncertainty. Sick of being criticized for his flippant responses to the severity of the pandemic, White had even gone as far as having his team publish a four-minute video exposing media members who had questioned or doubted him (along with the threat of a full documentary that has yet to come to fruition).

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Adorned in a t-shirt currently for sale on his website which reads, "A Woman In Every Kitchen, A Gun In Every Hand," Strickland quickly turned it into a political debate by chastising U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He also called Lee "a weak, pathetic man" for implying he would still love his children even if they were gay and closed by telling Lee he's "the enemy to our f---ing world" for asking such questions to begin with.


The only thing worse than Strickland's hateful comments were the reactions from a flood of supportive MMA fans on social media and the lack of reactionary comments from White or UFC parent company Endeavor. If you're keeping score at home, it's the same deafening silence that lingered in the aftermath of White being caught on tape assaulting his wife one year ago on New Year's Eve, which came and went without a press release from either UFC or Endeavor, let alone a punishment.

This is the same White who, when approached by media members after UFC 293 in September to react to homophobic slurs uttered by Manel Kape and Charles Radtke during separate postfight interviews, said both fighters apologized backstage on their own and weren't prompted to do so by the promotion.

"We make mistakes, I am not holier than though, either," White said. "We have all been in positions where we make mistakes but, like I always say, it's how you carry yourself after you make a mistake. I don't make anyone apologize for anything. You do what you want, you are grown men and women."

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It's fair to question whether White's liberal stance against his own fighters has become a major part of the problem.

For fans of Strickland, most of which double as outspoken conservatives, his outlandish remarks were seen as heroic and the reason he connects so deeply with the UFC's fan base thanks to his unapologetic moral code and his recent speaking out against everything from materialism (which is why he has deemed the UFC title belt as worthless) to the Matrix-style brainwashing that he believes has ruined American society.

Validating Strickland's hate speech as acceptable, simply because one might agree with the political root of his grudge, doesn't mean there's a place for this kind of talk within MMA, especially since it had nothing to do with promoting a fight. What does that say about the UFC, or anyone associated with it, that the recent vernacular that has taken over the sport has become so accepted in short term as what happens when you put a cage fighter in front of a microphone.

For UFC, this can only be seen as a regression. In 2013, the promotion fined Nate Diaz $20,000 and suspended him three months for using a homophobic slur on Twitter aimed at fellow fighter Bryan Caraway. Two years earlier, White cut loose bantamweight Miguel Torres for making a crass joke online about rape.

But in the new UFC, if you take issue with anything Strickland said or the gravity of what unchecked hate speech can do to a culture, prepare to be met online with political slander and a series of insults ranging from "snowflake" to far, far worse.

 

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UFC 297: Sean Strickland's homophobic tirade latest in UFC's ugly, uninhibited dive into culture wars​

Ah yes, saw that, that was a good one, respect to Sean for speaking what many MMA fans are thinking.

 

[SneakyQuick]

UFC 297: Sean Strickland's homophobic tirade latest in UFC's ugly, uninhibited dive into culture wars​

When you see this article, it’s so hard to read it without wanting to slap whoever wrote it silly. It’s just so pathetic, the liberal moralizing and assumed superiority of their positions.

I don’t watch ufc and I kinda think Dana white is a bit of a fraud, but still you gotta like that he lets the guy speak.

 

[Bucky]

This is the Manlet Sean insulted. Much respect to Sean. Strickland Vs Duplessis will be a true brother war.

 

[Warhawk_46]

 

[Bucky]

Slugging it out until the end

 

[Arerequired]

DDP wins by split, I thought Sean significantly outstruck him but

Fun while it lasted.

Have to consider that the shareholders did not want him as champ for any longer, DDP is a good fighter as well and his cardio is excellent now.

 

[Phall]

Gay and lame outcome: overall a very good and entertaining fight despite no serious fireworks.

Strickland looked like a machine, in a positive way, that I did not expect or at least know to expect. I wonder if having blood on in face for the last two rounds swayed the minds of that one judge (the outcome was 3-2, 2-3, 3-2... as close as you can get)

I thought it was retarded that the UFC production crew cut back to its camera feed from South Africa to show the "whole nation" celebrating, when it looked like nine black guys and three white coaches from Dricus' extended team. Worth nothing that his corner spoke Dutch rather than Swahili and was comprised of only white guys. It just seems like the narrative is too tempting for our 'powers that be' to not put their thumbs onto this scale.

And while I'm sounding off, the woMEME's "co-main event" was pathetic, and that clown show was reinforced as the white girl's "wife" (in a cocktail dress) and baby "daughter" were brought in after the victory for a post-match kiss and clutch. In this moment, I felt happy and fulfilled for stealing all the UFC PPV's rather than pay post-tax dollars for such pervert filth. Bear in mind that there is a gigantic homo "journalist" who got a pass credit to get into the media scrum just to ask Strickland if he "wanted to apologize the the LGBT community for his previous remarks." Imagine how we got to this point, where kindergarten sex-ed is on the table for the media scrum in the most ubiquitous MMA league.

Like I'd mentioned, the last four fighters I've really taken a shine to have lost: Bryce Mitchell basically went into a seizure, and Colby and Jiri lost in rather bland fashion. Now you add the renowned homophone Strickland into the mix? Maybe the UFC is just as gay as the NFL!!

 

[Phall]

The AI models seem to agree that Strickland won the fight.

 

[NWsoccerfan]

he spoke out against the left and therefore he wasn’t going to win any kind of a close decision. This is where our part comes into play. We have to stop watching or having anything to do with these sports. They are anti white and actively trying to promote an agenda to wipe out our race.