UFC middleweight contender Sean Strickland has revealed that Megan Fox slid into his DMs.
However, the former 185-pound champion clarified that the famous actress criticized him for making fun of the fashion sense of her children and her boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly.
In an episode of the Versus Us podcast with Eric Nicksick, Strickland told the story of his journey with Fox and back. He also revealed that as a child he would fantasize about the Transformers star.
“Megan Fox sent me a direct message,” Strickland said. “It wasn’t that kind of direct message. I’m a fan of Megan. How many times have I masturbated to you on Transformers when I was a kid?
‘All fucking day. Everyone watching this has masturbated to Megan Fox at least once.’
UFC star Sean Strickland revealed that Megan Fox sent him a message to denounce his antics
“He reached out to me and I was like, ‘I’ve reached the level of fame.’ And the message was actually kind of fucked up. It was more like, ‘Hey, my kids get bullied and I get bullied online too because you said they’re trans,’ and ‘they’re not trans, they want to dress like rock stars.'”
And I was like, “I’m sorry, Megan, I’ll just shut my mouth.” But I was like, “You still drink blood and shit, you still do a lot of weird stuff, Megan.”
There’s a point where I shouldn’t make fun of your fucking kids, I get it. But it’s more MGK, bro. This motherfucker, dude.
Strickland then recounted how an altercation developed between him and the Cleveland rapper-turned-singer at a Power Slap event in Las Vegas.
Fox confronted Strickland online after he called her boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly a “gay vampire”
The musician had an altercation with Strickland at a Power Slap event in February.
The incident occurred in February when UFC and Power Slap boss Dana White brought stars to witness his latest foray into slap fighting. Strickland noted how his relationship with a friend named ‘Dingo’, who works for Monster, soured after he introduced him to MGK.
“These slap fights are just influencer jerk-offs,” Strickland said. “Then Dingo says, ‘Hey, I want you to meet this guy.’ He’s wearing a vampire trench coat, he’s got a shitty bag, painted nails, and Dingo, you know me, man. Why would you do this? Why would you set me up?”
“And I looked at him like… trying to process it, and I think I was like, ‘What the fuck? Are you a fucking gay vampire?'”
Strickland won the UFC middleweight title against Israel Adesanya at UFC 293 in September.
Strickland is in pole position for a rematch with Dricus Du Plessis, who defeated him in January.
“And the way he looked at me was not funny. If he had said something funny, like, ‘You look like a white hick,’ I would have been like (shrugs hand). The way he looked at me was such that I felt disgusted, like there was a little voice inside my head that was saying, ‘We’re fighting. ‘ And then my girlfriend got involved and broke us up.”
Following the event, White stated that “you can’t take Sean Strickland to any other human being” due to his irascible tendencies and tactless verbal approach.
After losing his middleweight title to Dricus Du Plessis in January, Strickland bounced back with a win over Paulo Costa in June.
With the win, he set up a rematch with the South African champion, who defended the belt for the first time against Israel Adesanya on Saturday.