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Simon Samano

Sean Strickland calls Sean O’Malley and Dricus Du Plessis’ trash talk about abusive childhood ‘an utter disgrace’

If it looked like Sean O'Malley and Dricus Du Plessis’ words struck a nerve with Sean Strickland, that’s because apparently they did.

During a chaotic news conference to promote the first three UFC title fights of 2024, new lows in trash talk might’ve been reached as things spiraled out of control when O’Malley and Du Plessis invoked Strickland’s past abusive relationship with his father, a difficult subject the UFC middleweight champion has opened up about in the past.

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