{"id":2701,"date":"2023-12-18T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2023-12-18T23:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T22:14:26","slug":"sean-strickland-jumps-over-a-seat-and-fights-with-dricus-du-plessis-at-ufc-296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/sean-strickland-jumps-over-a-seat-and-fights-with-dricus-du-plessis-at-ufc-296\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland jumps over a seat and fights with Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 296"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sean Strickland completely lost his cool during UFC 296 and climbed over a seat to jump and fight with Dricus Du Plessis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The scene is surreal. While Sean Strickland, the middleweight champion, and Dricus Du Plessis are due to face each other on January 20, the two fighters fought during UFC 296. Strickland and Du Plessis heated up in the public, chaining gestures and provocations until until the American pulls the pin, climbs over a seat and throws himself at Du Plessis to start a brawl.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The altercation between Strickland and Du Plessis<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The full incident between Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC296?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC296<\/a> tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Bring on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC297?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC297<\/a> in January! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HQt0Uj1jiv\">pic.twitter.com\/HQt0Uj1jiv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1736275668256567687?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Security intervened to separate the two athletes. At this time, we do not know what sanctions Sean Strickland faces for this tasteless altercation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobbieBarstool?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RobbieBarstool<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7BJ7cfrput\">pic.twitter.com\/7BJ7cfrput<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JoshIsner (@JoshIsner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshIsner\/status\/1736239030671671308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Watch more footage of the encounter from T-Mobile Arena below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The best angle of DDP vs Strickland just dropped <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC296?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC296<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpinninBackfist?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpinninBackfist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2vL9EieMA7\">pic.twitter.com\/2vL9EieMA7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barstoolsports\/status\/1736241728175087721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Watch more footage of the encounter from T-Mobile Arena below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DDP &amp; STRICKLAND JUST GOT INTO A FIGHT CAGESIDE <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC296?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC296<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pt8FWNMMtR\">pic.twitter.com\/Pt8FWNMMtR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Spinnin Backfist (@SpinninBackfist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpinninBackfist\/status\/1736237647289323827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It appears Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis had to be seperated in the crowd \ud83d\udc40<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chitoveraUFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@chitoveraUFC<\/a> was loving it \ud83d\ude02<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC296?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC296<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m1oYNnQqGk\">pic.twitter.com\/m1oYNnQqGk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC on TNT Sports (@ufcontnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufcontnt\/status\/1736236557059957070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Strickland completely lost his cool during UFC 296 and climbed over a seat to jump and fight with Dricus Du Plessis. The scene is surreal. While Sean Strickland, the middleweight champion, and Dricus Du Plessis are due to face each other on January 20, the two fighters fought during UFC 296. Strickland and Du [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news","8":"category-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}