Sean Strickland Threatens UFC Exit Over Pay and Boxing

I want to get into Sean Strickland's complaints a little bit as Sean Strickland's threatening to quit the UFC and or mail in the rest of his fights, etc., which probably wasn't a good idea to go on record and say that, oh, I'll just go in there and do dumb moves just to get it over with. But we've seen this script so many times before, and I almost, you know, I ignored this video at first, and I ignored his complaints and all this because I've seen this a million times. i've been covering the UFC for basically you know nearly 25 years uh now and most of the time it's always the bigger fighters and start complaining about money but they never actually do anything about it right like they'll complain about it and they'll threaten things yet then they'll sort of get taken care of and then it's not a problem anymore i remember like GSP was big on that GSP was like oh we need a union we need you know this like i'm big enough now that i you know I'm gonna try to like change the way that this industry is built and whatever dude like an hour in a room with the Fertittas and Dana White at the time and he came out with what he wanted and everything was fine again right and the thing with Strickland is like dude you're the one that just signed a six-fight contract that's the only thing that the UFC I've always thought the UFC sort of unfairly gets criticized for their pay because the fighters are the ones that are accepting it so you guys i fought for the title four times i won it twice beat all the boogeymen in the division hell i fought half the division already man i want to box i want to go put a boxing title on my mantle i deserve it hell i don't even i don't even do MMA i just box i will put hands on any boxer Jake Paul wants to give me a big old bag of money to fight him i'm under contract fine i'll go to Zuffa i'll go i'll go beat your cruiserweight champ easy but let me tell you something about the UFC and i'm going to say the quiet part out loud that nobody says you'll go you'll go you watch these champions right these like savages of the sport man they run the division and they take an L and then they come back and they just like man they just fight like three or four times they get flatlined you're like dude what happened to you and you realize that UFC happened to them they just don't care anymore the ufc they don't pay you enough money to walk away like man life is good i've dedicated my life to this i put the time in this the ufc builds a legacy they keep you right here but they build the legacy and they don't pay you enough so you have to come back and ruin your legacy i just want to do that man it's like this goy slop repackaged mcdonald's straight to the head you know just not into anymore i want to fight i want to box i want to go win a boxing title so we're trying to work that out but if the ufc says hey we're not going to do that we're going to make you fight well i'm going to stick and move you guys going to boo hell i'll boo with you while i'm doing it just stick and move collect my check and then move on but uh i mean hell here we are see i don't think anything he said was wrong right but at the same point of time you're the one to sign the contract right you brought this upon yourself and the comical thing is too and like i said i've seen this happen a million times before so like Sean Strickland is upset with the UFC i'm not getting paid enough and it ruins people's lives and all this type of stuff and then what does he do he goes to the next UFC event and gives them all kinds of free publicity on top of it so like if you were really done with the UFC you probably wouldn't have went to Edmonton Alberta a couple of days after you were complaining about the UFC right um so you have to sort of take it um like you have to sort of like say well you know what you're the one who just signed a contract um you're the one who just signed a contract and you should have thought about that before you signed a six fight deal but they basically make you sign those deals if you're going to fight for for a title because they don't want people winning the title and then just throwing the title in the garbage and walking away uh after the fact