Sean Strickland has blasted Khalil Rountree for his post-fight comments at Saturday’s UFC Vegas 50 event.<\/p>\n
Khalil Rountree (11-5 MMA) defeated<\/a> Karl Roberson (9-5 MMA) in the light heavyweight fight this past Saturday, March 12th at the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada.<\/p>\n At the post-fight news conference, Rountree had a lot to say, a heartfelt message, commenting:<\/p>\n \u201cWe hear about certain fights\u2019 stories and it\u2019s like, \u2018Okay, that\u2019s cool. Well, on to the next, or talk about the fight, No, man. We\u2019re still people. Yes, I come in here and I put on performances, and people know me as fighting, but it\u2019s like that whole part of \u2013 man, when I (was) like 300 pounds without a hope or a dream or a dollar in my pocket, stepped into an MMA gym to try to change my life.”<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cEvery time I\u2019m in here, that\u2019s still a growth. It\u2019s not like I\u2019ve just surpassed that person. Every single day I have to wake up to that person. Every single day I have to fight that person. Just because I\u2019m in the UFC, just because I fight, doesn\u2019t mean that person is long gone, you know? I still have demons, I still have doubts. \u2026Yeah, I have f*ckin\u2019 doubts. Everybody does. When you\u2019re doing something good in life, when you\u2019re doing something that\u2019s trying to surpass everything else and do something that\u2019s meaningful, f*ck yeah you\u2019re gonna have doubts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Continuing Rountree said (much to the apparent disappointment of Sean Strickland):<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m still the guy, although I\u2019ve grown and I\u2019m taking on more challenges and I\u2019m growing as a man, it\u2019s like my fight is different than everybody else,\u201d <\/em>Rountree said. “Everybody else has their own fight. For me, part of that is how do you get a man off of the couch, from killing himself with eating trashy food, and smoking cigarettes, and watching porn, and doing all this toxic sh*t to be an all-star athlete? The switch just doesn\u2019t flip like that. It\u2019s a constant progression and I think that there\u2019s millions of people out there that kind of need help in those steps of like, \u2018Hey, guide me here.\u2019 Yeah, I\u2019m cheering for you, but how do I do it? What\u2019s next?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIf I\u2019m not winning fights, one, I make half of my money, and two, nobody gives a sh*t,\u201d<\/em> Rountree said. \u201c\u2026 The person who loses the fight kind of gets forgotten about. You don\u2019t get an interview, you don\u2019t get this, you don\u2019t get that \u2013 only the winners get to say a piece.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt might sound a bit cliche, or you\u2019ve heard this before, but your life matters,\u201d<\/em> Rountree said, shedding tears. \u201cYou can be special. You can be strong. You can be seen. You can be heard. Life is beautiful if you make it that way. It doesn\u2019t have to be how everybody else makes it seem. Stick around. Stick around another day.”<\/em><\/p>\n Well, Sean Strickland (25-3 MMA) was not impressed by the emotional outpouring, taking to Twitter<\/a> to share a portion of Rountree’s post fight press conference, commenting:<\/p>\n “Gayest shit I’ve ever seen and I love bi women so ive seen a lot of gay… Yeah you’re really special, a special little snow flake… This man is the definition of a PC BETA male. You all would hate him….. seriously being in the same room as him makes me cringe.”<\/em><\/p>\n Strickland followed up that statement with the following video:<\/p>\n You guys have no concept of who this man is…. He sucks soo much.. If you ever hung out with him for more than 60 seconds you would hate him… God he sucks pic.twitter.com\/j1ALx7ySmT<\/a><\/p>\n — Sean Strickland (@SStricklandMMA) March 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n