Belal Muhammad rips Sean Strickland after UFC 312 loss: ‘He’s a coward, and it shows in his fights’

UFC welterweight champ Belal Muhammad is having some fun at Sean Strickland’s expense.

Strickland headlined UFC 312 this past Saturday in a rematch for the middleweight title against champ Dricus du Plessis, where Strickland lost a one-sided unanimous decision.

Muhammad, who has had many a back-and-forth with Strickland through social media and interviews, reacted to Strickland’s loss, and wasn’t kind about it at all.

“I’ve been saying it forever: Sean sucks,” Muhammad said. “He’s trash. He talks a big game, but he never walks. Even to the fans that sit there and hype him up, like, ‘[He’s] the best boxer, has the best boxing defense,’ this and that. ‘He’s going to go to war, he’s going to kill,’ ‘I would bleed for my fans, I would die for my fans, blah blah blah,’ but you go out there and he just jabs and teeps and he fights like a scared little girl, and he doesn’t want to get hit.

“Even when you’re down four rounds, he doesn’t go all out. He doesn’t have it in him unless there’s five seconds left in the fight, and he wants to yell and have that highlight reel, and wants people to say he’s crazy, he’s nuts. He’s not. He’s just a racist little clown that’s hiding in a body of a fighter. He’s a scared little boy hiding in the body of a fighter. He’s a coward, and he shows it in his fights.”

In their first meeting 13 months ago, Strickland lost the 185-pound belt to du Plessis via a razor close split decision at UFC 297. After the loss, Strickland earned a rematch with du Plessis following a five-round decision win over Paulo Costa in the co-main event of UFC 302 this past June.

Du Plessis went on to stop Israel Adesanya in August at UFC 305 for his first successful title defense. “Stillknocks,” along with a lot of fans and pundits within the MMA community, believed that Khamzat Chimaev should’ve gotten the title fight over Strickland following Chimaev’s eye-opening first-round submission win over former champ Robert Whittaker at UFC 308 in October.

It appears Muhammad believed that same sentiment, as he continued to lay into Strickland and his performance.

“And now he’s going to come up with, ‘Oh, man, I had staph,’” Muhammad said. “‘Let me tell you something guys, I get paid a lot of money and I got staph, but I was going to still fight for you guys because I have to put a show on for my fans, and then I broke my nose so that messed up my whole fight even though I lost the first three rounds just by jabbing one time every five minutes. Yeah, man, it was all from the staph, that’s why I wore sleeveless shirts at the press conference so you guys could see it and have this excuse built up already, and my fans will know that I still stepped in there for you.’

“He sucks. And finally, we get to get rid of giving this guy undeserved title shots. That’s all I got for you.”