Sean Strickland, the 32-year-old American mixed martial artist known as “Tarzan”, can never be accused of keeping things bottled up inside. Strickland, who is the current UFC middleweight champion, unleashed in a new interview, insisting society is becoming soft, expressing admiration for a time when duels were cool, and claiming today’s government is neutering men.
Strickland appeared on a podcast with standup comedian Theo Von posted earlier this week where the two discussed our decaying society.
“The world’s getting fucking soft dude,” the UFC star waxed poetic.
“We live in this world now where people can just say whatever the fuck they want, and I don’t think that helps people get like hard,” he continued.
Normally we’d add some asterisks to Strickland’s comments for the faint of heart, but two things: 1) It would have been a lot of asterisks to add and, 2) There’s no way in hell I’m censoring a post on a guy claiming (rightly btw) Americans are getting soft. We’re hard over here at Bounding Into Sports, Sean.
He continued: “So it’s like I could go online right now. I could go on the interwebs and I could start telling you to go fuck yourself. Fuck your mother. Fuck your girlfriend. Fuck you, and any kind of recourse that you do — you’ll get in trouble for it. If you do something to me you’ll go to prison … but we weren’t always like that.”
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Sean Strickland And His Views On Bringing Back Duels
Strickland moved on to espouse some other theories on how there was a time here in America when people weren’t soft – A time when duels were used to solve our problems.
He pointed to President Andrew Jackson to make the point, a man who was involved in numerous duels, the most famous of which involved Charles Dickinson, an attorney who made comments about his wife.
“This man killed a man because he implied his wife was a whore. Just the pure implication of ‘Your wife is a whore’ — he killed this man,” Strickland said seemingly in awe. “One of the greatest men of our fucking time.”
Sean Strickland then suggested today’s government, in contrast to the days of Andrew Jackson, is making men soft.
“And now it’s like, you know, the government has like slowly just took the nuts away from men,” he concluded.
The government is definitely taking the “nuts away from men”. In some cases, they’re taking them off of men and putting them on women. In other cases, they’re pretending some men never had nuts and having those people beat the crap out of real women. Like the governing body of Olympic boxing, USA Boxing, for example.
But that’s neither here nor there.
Strickland also garnered attention for his interview with Von as he discussed his traumatic past.
Sean Strickland’s next fight is on January 20, 2024, against Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 297 in Toronto, Canada. This will be a middleweight title bout, with Strickland defending his title for the first time since defeating Israel Adesanya in September 2023.
