Sean Strickland has been playing his role to make the fight interesting. While being 100% correct, there's again that recurring theme of how these guys can't speak without degrading themselves through crass, uncouth, alienating profanities.
Jason Whitlock panders to us straight white men by giving us our talking points as a black. Long story short, he feels that it's an appropriate reaction to everything else going gay.
The mid-wit water cooler take is that the suits at Paramount Plus (who just bought some sort of UFC broadcast rights) are really jittery now that there is this "controversy." It's more likely that a panel of jewish homosexuals sat around a conference table and looked at thirty different test group reactions for headlines "coded" toward our demographic block.
Well, congratulations, you jewish homosexual suits at Paramount Plus! I will be watching and cheering for Strickland! (although I will be pirating a stream, same as ever)