Sean Strickland calls out Belal Muhammad as he looks to return
As for Sean Strickland, he doesn’t have his next fight booked but is getting antsy to return.
Strickland wanted to face Reinier de Ridder after he beat Bo Nickal, but he was booked against Robert Whittaker. With that, Strickland wants to face Belal Muhammad, the former welterweight champion, as the American thinks Muhammad should move up.
“Belal would be a fun fight, that’d be a fun one,” Strickland said to Yee. “Belal, you should f*cking sack up, dog. This is it. You can finally sack the f*ck up, dude. All that shit you talked, man, we can finally make it happen. Lost your belt, you kind of got f*cked up, I got f*cked up. We should make that fight happen, Belal. That’d be a good one, right?”
Sean Strickland is 29-7 as a pro and coming off a decision loss to Du Plessis in their rematch.