Sean Strickland didn’t hold back when asked about Dana White’s description of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, unloading on the UFC CEO just days before his next title fight.
White had told USA Today of the incident, “It was f*cking awesome. I literally took every minute of it in. It was a pretty crazy, unique experience.”
Reacting during a Wednesday media scrum, Strickland laughed and sharply criticized White’s behavior and character. “Let me tell you, I’m sure Dana White is a sociopath,” Strickland said, later adding, “Let’s be honest, at that level of what he’s accomplished, the kind of shit he deals with, I’m sure he’s a super narcissistic sociopath. So for him, the lizard brain doesn’t kind of compute, so he’s like, ‘F*ck it, bring it on, dude. Let’s go, motherf*cker,’ which I respect. I respect that.”
Strickland escalated further, saying, “I think Dana White would have loved to watch a motherf*cker get killed. He’s a sick f*ck. Come on, do we not think that about Dana White? The guy’s probably a f*cking sociopath. Or probably a psychopath.”
The comments come as Strickland prepares to face Khamzat Chimaev for the middleweight title in the main event of UFC 328 next Saturday in Newark, N.J.
Strickland also touched on politics, noting past criticism of Donald Trump’s administration over Jeffrey Epstein files and saying, “I don’t know, I do make fun of Trump a lot,” before adding, “What I’m saying, guys, politics: I don’t like them.”
