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Former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland had an eventful Super Bowl weekend.  He beat the crap out of a social media influencer, faced off with former President Donald Trump, had a verbal altercation with Machine Gun Kelly, and threatened to kill Jake Paul.  

Already dominating the headlines on Friday after video emerged of him mercilessly beating social media influencer Sneako during a sparring session, Strickland drew even more attention after getting into a verbal altercation with musician Machine Gun Kelly at Friday night’s Power Slap 6 event.  On Monday, Strickland explained how the incident with Kelly began.

“It’s been a fun 24 hours you guys.  I met a lot of fun people the last couple of days,” Strickland said on his YouTube channel.  “I meet this vampire (Machine Gun Kelly).  Dude, you wake up every day and dress like a vampire.  I don’t know if he does or doesn’t.  It might just be a wardrobe.  But dude, you dress like a vampire.  You look like the goth kid on South Park and you go out in the world like this.  This only happens because you’re in an insulated bubble.”

“I go and I meet the vampire.  Luke Trembath) introduces me to the vampire and I make fun of him.  I’m like, ‘Dude, what are you f**king wearing? Like, what the f**k is going on here? How are you doing this?’ He looked at me, and he didn’t laugh, and he didn’t giggle, but he looked at me like, ‘Why is this guy with no respect talking to me like this,” Strickland continued.

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“He looked at me like I was less than human.  I was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to f**king humble you right now. Then my girl kind of f*cking got in the way and was like, ‘Chill the f**k out,’ and then I was escorted out.”

UFC CEO Dana White reacted to the Strickland and Machine Gun Kelly incident during the Power Slap 6 Post-Fight Press Conference.  

“You can’t bring Sean Strickland around any other human beings,” White said. “You know what I mean? It has nothing to do with Machine Gun Kelly. It’s about humans.”

“It’s been a hell of a 24 hours,” said Strickland.  “Met Trump.  Got to fight an influencer.  Met a vampire.  Didn’t know they were real but there they are.  Should have brought some garlic and a steak to that Slap fight.”  

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Cain Velasquez still faces attempted murder charges following his 2022 arrest, but there’s still no clear timeline for when — or if — he’ll go to trial.

On Wednesday, the former UFC heavyweight champion appeared in two different Santa Clara County, Calif., courtrooms regarding his case. Velasquez was arrested after allegedly going on a high-speed chase pursuing a car containing Harry Goularte, a man accused of sexually abusing his son at a daycare owned by Goularte’s mother. Velasquez allegedly fired several rounds from a handgun into the vehicle, with Goularte’s stepfather, Paul Bender, being hit by a bullet but sustaining non-life threatening injuries as a result.

Velasquez’s first appearance on Wednesday saw him stand before Judge Shella Deen as she overheard arguments regarding two different subpoenas for information the defense is seeking before going to trial.

The first involved records from the UFC, which Velasquez’s attorney Renee Hessling stated had been requested and representatives from the promotion responded, however no paperwork was ever received. Deen ordered the UFC to provide those records, with a new date set on March 6 to verify that the information has been received.

The second subpoena involved records related to the daycare previously owned by Patty Goularte, which is where Velasquez’s son was allegedly abused by her son. Hessling, along with an attorney representing the Goularte family, argued over the records, which led to the judge quieting them both down before ultimately ordering them both to reappear for another hearing on April 17.

Deen specifically stated that she wanted time to review all of the records, along with a motion to quash the subpoena that was filed on Wednesday by the Goularte family attorney.

As a result of those two subpoenas and the records attached to them still being delayed, Judge Benjamin Williams was forced to once again delay setting a trial date for Velasquez, which went against a strenuous objection from Santa Clara county assistant district attorney Aaron French.

French also revealed that conversations are ongoing with prosecutors, the defense, and Judge Arthur Bocanegra over a potential resolution that would avoid trial.

“I object to further trial setting, I would like to have a trial date today, but the people are open to continue to negotiate the case with the defense, and if we can reach a resolution prior to trial, then I’m open to those discussions,” French said in court.

Williams denied the objection and gave a final trial setting date on April 24 at 1:35 p.m. PT unless a resolution, such as a plea deal for Velasquez, is reached by then.

If convicted of all charges, Velasquez faces the possibility of life in prison.

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Former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland isn’t a fan of social media influencers.  In fact, he’s threatened to kill two of them.  One of them was influencer turned professional boxer Jake Paul.  

After video surfaced of Strickland beating up influencer Sneako during a sparring session, Paul called out Strickland and offered a million-dollar challenge to spar on video.  It’s Jake Paul so he also threw in a tattoo bet.  

Strickland responded with a series of insults on social media toward Paul, but behind the scenes he asked the UFC if he could box him.  

“So Jake Paul offered me a million dollars knowing that it is impossible for me to do that.  And I actually talked to Hunter [Campbell],” Strickland said on his YouTube channel.  I was like, ‘Hunter, I will fight this man.  You let Conor McGregor fight Mayweather.  This is an easier fight, easier money.  Can I do that?’   

“And then Hunter explained to me – Hunter is like the left hand or right hand of Dana [White].  They’re equal.  I don’t know what they’d be but they’re damn close – And Hunter explained to me that he sells no fights,” Strickland continued.  “That when they have fights they give away tickets.  That he doesn’t make money.  That his current audience is children and they don’t buy pay-per-views.  

“So, a little depressing because I thought to myself, ‘You know what? I’ll take a payday beating up this man.’  That’s something easy enough, but sadly Jake Paul is an influencer.  He sells to children.  Children don’t buy pay-per-views.  I don’t know man.  Get some adults to follow you and then we will fight.  

“Here’s the thing Jake Paul.  You clearly know I can’t fight you.  We know this.  The UFC knows this.  We all know this that me and you can not fight.  But what we can do, you can get in your fancy plane and you can fly your ass to Vegas and we could have a little pow wow because you know as well as I know what happens to that.  I’ll do it for free.  I don’t need a check.  I don’t need to live stream it.  I will do it for free sir, so if that is something you want.  You want to show everybody how big and hard that d*ck is let me know when.  And Jake Paul, I got knocked out by a world champion kickboxer.  Two-time UFC champion.  You got beat by a part-time boxer you tried to use to pad your record.  You’re an embarrassment to yourself.  You’re an embarrassment to me, and you’re an embarrassment to the world.”  

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