WASHINGTON — Sean Strickland knew he wasn’t welcome at the UFC White House event, showed up anyway, and was quickly thrown out by Secret Service.
The UFC middleweight champion showed up at The Ellipse Fan Fest event Sunday evening filled with thousands of rambunctious fans and jumped into a ring with what appeared to be a beer in his hand.
Strickland began chugging the beer in the ring as fans ran to him in shock to see him in the area.
Shortly after his shock appearance, he was grabbed and thrown out of the event.
He later posted on social media an image of himself being thrown out of the event barefoot by a roughly a dozen service men with a big smile on his face.
“Best fans in the world,” Strickland said in the post.
Strickland added afterwards from what appeared to be his hotel room that he “may have been charged with disorderly conduct.”
UFC President Dana White had said earlier in the week that Strickland wasn’t banned from the event, but rather he is “not invited.”
“I just want to prove that I’m Israeli enough for you guys,” Strickland added.
Strickland has been a bit inconsistent in his thoughts on the card, however, at one point he said he didn’t want to attend the card at all.
“Just to go hang out with the f–king Epstein list? I’m good dog,” Strickland said before crashing the party.
“Sean Strickland is banned from humanity, OK?” White said this week.
The UFC’s White House event was briefly delayed due to rain but the event has gone on without a hitch in the early going.
Strickland does not have a fight scheduled currently, but he is coming off a shocking defeat of Khamzat Chimaev for the middleweight title.
