The UFC face a potentially difficult task in managing the views of their fighter, Sean Strickland, with the former neo-Nazi openly admitting that he likes the feeling of thinking he might kill someone whenever he leaves his house.
In a rather unusual admission for a figure in the public eye, Strickland doesn't believe his job is at any risk, despite these homicidal admissions.
"You don't understand me, I like it, I like it when I leave the house with the potential thought that maybe I could kill someone," Strickland explained in an interview with The MMA Hour.
"I wanted to [kill someone] my entire life, that's a big reason why I didn't have a social life.
"Like when I went out and got arrested, I just wanted to, there was something in me that knew if I could just kill a human being, it would make me feel good for a short time, it's one of those things where, like, more people think like that and I'm just the one that says it."
Strickland pins his, now historic, neo-Nazi feelings on the influence of his grandfather, with the MMA fighter freely admitting that he regrets his actions in the past in this regard.
"I was so angry I actually went through this weird neo-Nazi, white supremacist phase when I was younger and I got kicked out of school for hate crimes," Strickland continued.
"I would walk down the street with like a knife or a rock hoping to kill somebody.
"My grandfather was like this big piece of shit, when you're a kid you don't see that, you hero-worship and he kinda just filled my head with crazy shit, you hear it from someone you look up to and that identity consumed me."
Dana White has yet to comment on the nature of the interview, but Strickland believes that in merely detailing his thoughts, he hasn't done anything wrong.
"I'm not worried about it, if someone were to cut me for that, how can you cut someone for that?" Strickland added.
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