Sean Strickland thinks Bryce Mitchell wants to speak to somebody … Apart from the voices in his head.
Earlier this month, Mitchell was left speechless on the UFC 314 press occasion after his subsequent opponent, Jean Silva, repeatedly minimize him off and taunted ‘Thug Nasty’ over his beliefs that the earth is flat.
Mitchell was undeniably livid, however issues took a weird flip earlier this week when the outspoken featherweight claimed that Silva was possessed by “a legion of demons” and had cursed him with demonic goals tempting him to cheat on his spouse.
Belief us, it will get even crazier than that.
Remedy would ‘do wonders’ for Bryce Mitchell
Whereas Silva had a few issues to say in response to Mitchell’s newest little bit of madness, Sean Strickland really got here to his buddy’s protection and had a surprisingly measured response to all of the chaos.
“I like Bryce…. don’t maintain this towards me however remedy would do him wonders,” Strickland wrote on X. “If everytime I had an Intrusive thought I assumed “oh it’s the satan” I’d lose my thoughts. Intrusive ideas aren’t the satan Bryce. Most likely simply struggle nervousness manifesting itself in f*cked up ideas.”
Whereas a lot of the main focus has been on Mitchell’s antics exterior the Octagon, the very fact stays that ‘Thug Nasty’ is a stable 8-2 underneath the UFC banner together with his solely losses coming towards former featherweight titleholder Ilia Topuria and Josh Emmett. Mitchell has gained two of his final three, together with a unanimous determination over Dan Ige and a third-round knockout towards Kron Gracie in his final outing at UFC 310.
However as spectacular as Mitchell has checked out occasions, he’s by no means confronted somebody with as many wins by KO as Jean Silva.
‘Lord’ has knocked out each certainly one of his opponents contained in the Octagon and brings with him 12 profession KOs towards 15 whole wins. Including two victories through submission, Silva carries an unimaginable 93% end fee.
Mitchell has solely misplaced twice in his profession, however in each situations, he was completed inside the gap.
