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UFC Star Sean Strickland Gives a Sensible Advice to Fans Over “Embarrassing” Conor McGregor Teammate: “Ignore Him”

Published 01/28/2023, 5:32 AM EST

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Dillon Danis seemingly never stays away from the headlines. However, the news often doesn’t turn out on a positive note and attracts hatred from many fans. Recently, the mixed martial artist found himself in trouble as he disclosed his private conversations with Sean Strickland on social media. Although Danis was quick to delete the post, many of the fans got their eyes on the conversation. Without a doubt, they deemed the fighter an embarrassment. Furthermore, as Danis commented on a post that shared the news of the UFC 287 co-main event with the world, one of the fans happened to tag Strickland and diss Danis. Undeniably, ‘Tarzan’ acknowledged the fan and talked about how Danis sent him a private message. However, he advised the fans to simply ignore Danis. 

Danis fell further from the lines as he pulled out from his boxing fight against KSI. The fighters hyped up the match with loads of trash talk. Undeniably, Danis received a boatload of backlash at his action. 

Sean Strickland responds to a fan and disses Dillon Danis

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Danis recently released his private conversation with Strickland. The messages showed ‘Tarzan’ telling Danis that the MMA fans have tagged him as nothing but a joke. But it didn’t end at that. Danis called out the UFC star for a fight, which led to Strickland accepting the challenge after calling him a troll. However, the world slammed Danis for sharing DMs. After that, he deleted the tweets.

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However, the fans did not forget everything that easily. A post on Instagram showed Jorge Masvidal going up against Gilbert Burns in the co-main event of UFC 287. Danis took to the comments and wrote, “battle of the journeymen.” However, a fan took the liberty of tagging Strickland and saying that Danis still hasn’t taken up the advice.

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Without any delay, Strickland turned to the comments and replied to the fan. He wrote, “he sent me a private message.. man at this point its just embarrassing… the best thing anyone can do is ignore him.” 

Danis’ previous beef with Strickland

However, this wasn’t the first time ‘El Jefe’ scuffled with ‘Tarzan’. Previously in 2021, Danis disclosed his personal conversations with Strickland. The UFC fighter called Danis a lamb pretending to be a wolf. Furthermore, he even threatened Danis and clarified his seriousness by saying that he didn’t speak metaphorically. But later, he clarified that it wasn’t a threat.

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Without a doubt, ‘El Jefe’ received severe backlash from the public for sharing direct messages. It surprised the fans that the fighter did it again. 

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Krushna Prasad Pattnaik

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Krushna Pattnaik is a UFC writer at EssentiallySports. Coming from a pharmaceutical background with a master's degree in the same and multiple scientific publications, his passion for combat sports and writing brought him to EssentiallySports, where both of his passions met in a beautiful collaboration. He is an instrumentalist and has a profound love for books.
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Rohini Kottu