IRVINE, Calif. – Ian Machado Garry won’t let Sean Strickland’s personal attacks go.
Strickland mocked Garry’s relationship with his wife, which Garry (13-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) said has caused the former middleweight champion’s fans to come after him and his family on social media. Strickland (28-6 MMA, 15-6 UFC) is known to take shots at numerous fighters but has also emotionally opened up about his own childhood trauma. Garry plans on making Strickland pay for some of the things he’s said.
“Listen, we can shoot shots at each other all day long, me and another bloke, but here’s the two things that I’ll point out,” Garry said at Wednesday’s UFC 298 media day. “My wife was called a pedophile by Sean Strickland. No woman ever deserves to be called that. That’s the truth. My son, the people that follow Sean Strickland commented on a couple of my photos at the very start of all this hate saying, ‘Is the kid even his?’ I should never have to hear that. Those two things, they emotionally get me. I’ll get mine back. I’ll thump the f*cking mouth off Sean Strickland one day, and there will be nothing he can do about it.
