An alleged domestic violence perpetrator picked the wrong home at which to try to hide out.
UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland posted a video on his Instagram page in which the alleged suspect sought to hide out at his house after apparently trying to outrun club security — and Strickland held the man at gunpoint.
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“Here’s what I know….,” Strickland’s explanation of the event began.
“The guy was drunk stomping out a girl, a security guard seen it, he jumped in his car and drove off. Security followed him, hit a curb, completely shredded his tire, drove on the rim for awhile then jumped out and tried to hide at my house. I initially thought he was stealing my car..”
Strickland added that the suspect was arrested.
It’s unclear where the incident took place.
In a major upset at UFC 293 in September, Strickland defeated Israel Adesanya via decision to become the promotion’s middleweight champion.
Dana White immediately announced after the fight that Strickland and Adesanya would have a rematch.
In his professional MMA career, which began in 2008, Strickland has a 28-5 record.
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Believe it or not, Strickland is not the first UFC fighter to point a gun at an alleged home intruder, as Jon Jones chased an alleged attempted car thief away from his home with a shotgun in 2020.
Last year, UFC welterweight fighter Kevin Holland spoke to The Post about thwarting a gunman at a sushi restaurant in Houston.
Holland said that he initially thought the gunshot was a champagne pop.
“As I go to turn around and look, I see one of the employees and some other people running with a look of biblical fear on their face,” Holland said.
“And as they’re running, I call my uncle Patrick Robinson and pulled him down. People were running everywhere. I looked over on the right side of the bar and noticed two guys wrestling with a gun.
“Then I get up, start running that way. I picked up a chair. I was going to smack the guy with a chair but I couldn’t see exactly which person it was. I put the chair down, and realised the person on the bottom was the shooter. I helped the guy pull the gun free, and pulled the guy back into my lap, hit him with a rear-naked choke, and choked him to sleep.”
This story originally appeared on the New York Post and has been reposted with permission
