{"id":17041,"date":"2025-08-21T19:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=17041"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:21:38","slug":"sean-strickland-suspended-six-months-after-attacking-fighter-in-post-fight-brawl-while-serving-as-cornerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=17041","title":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland suspended six months after attacking fighter in post-fight brawl while serving as cornerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p>                <span class=\"MediaShortcode-credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sean Strickland has been suspended by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Strickland received a six-month suspension, retroactive to June 29, according to\u00a0MMA Junkie, for a post-fight brawl at an event called Tuff-N-Uff where he was serving as a cornerman.<\/p>\n<p>His suspension ends on Dec. 29, but it can be reduced to four and a half months by completing an anger management course. Strickland was also fined $5,000 and additional legal fees. The adjudication agreement follows Strickland&#8217;s <span class=\"link\">temporary suspension<\/span>\u00a0last month.<\/p>\n<p>Strickland was suspended for attacking a regional fighter at the Tuff-N-Uff event in Las Vegas on June 29. Strickland and fellow UFC fighter Chris Curtis were cornering their teammate, Miles Hunsinger. Undefeated prospect Luis Hernandez taunted Hunsinger&#8217;s corner after submitting him, spurring Strickland and Curtis to storm the cage. Curtis grabbed Hernandez as Strickland threw multiple strikes at him. Security regained order shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sean Strickland stepped forward,&#8221; NSAC chairman Dallas Haun said. &#8220;He  made this process easy. He&#8217;s apologized for his behavior. We appreciate  someone stepping up, owning something, and for a resolution to be come  to quickly and with all parties in agreement. So again, thanks to Mr.  Strickland. He&#8217;s made a mistake and he&#8217;s owned it and we appreciate  that.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Curtis received a $2,500 fine for his role in the altercation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez previously told MMA Fighting\u00a0he didn&#8217;t want Strickland penalized, despite the NSAC&#8217;s eventual decision to suspend the UFC star.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I  would never want  anything to happen to these guys because I actually  like them, and I  hope they watch this,&#8221; Hernandez said. &#8220;I have nothing  against Sean, nothing against  Chris, nothing against Xtreme Couture&#8230; &#8220;I hope the commission does not  take this out on them.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images Sean Strickland has been suspended by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Strickland received a six-month suspension, retroactive to June 29, according to\u00a0MMA Junkie, for a post-fight brawl at an event called Tuff-N-Uff where he was serving as a cornerman. His suspension ends on Dec. 29, but it can be reduced to four and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1517,10229,10230,1277,855,10228,1841,5465,4778,4779],"class_list":{"0":"post-17041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-attacking","9":"tag-brawl","10":"tag-cornerman","11":"tag-fighter","12":"tag-months","13":"tag-postfight","14":"tag-sean","15":"tag-serving","16":"tag-strickland","17":"tag-suspended"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}