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Sean Strickland blasts Sean O’Malley at UFC Seasonal presser: ‘Now we got this clown over here’

Taking center stage at tonight’s massive UFC 2024 Seasonal press conference in Las Vegas, undisputed middleweight champion, Sean Strickland ripped into his bantamweight champion counterpart, Sean O’Malley – branding the Montana native a “clown” while mocking his persona.

Strickland, who takes main event honors at UFC 297 next month as part of the first pay-per-view event of the year for the promotion, takes on surging contender, Dricus du Plessis as he attempts to defend his crown for the first time.

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As for O’Malley, the Dana White’s Contender Series alum is slated to headline UFC 299 in April in the promotion’s return to Miami, taking on soon-to-be two-time foe, Marlon Vera in the pair’s bantamweight championship rematch in Florida.