Nobody Forced You to Watch Cage Fighting

A friend sent me this clip of UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland ranting at Canadian MMA reporter Alexander K. Lee, in a presser designed to promote the upcoming Strickland vs. Dricus Du Plessis fight. My friend’s comment was an observation on how the sport had grown stale. The Strickland tirade is seething, highly political, and predictably viral, but it’s something that could be happening in lieu of a sport growing on its own terms.