Sporting a brand new look, Sean Strickland was his traditional unhinged self throughout Wednesday’s UFC 312 media day.
On Saturday, the previous UFC middleweight champion will look to reclaim the crown when he runs it again with Dricus Du Plessis contained in the Qudos Financial institution Enviornment in Sydney, Australia. Strickland and Du Plessis will headline the promotion’s return to The Land Down Underneath, however first, each fighters addressed members of the media.
Evidently, Strickland dominated the day as soon as once more along with his sizzling takes which normally vary from mildly humorous to downright vile.
This time, Strickland determined to take the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
On December 4, Thompson was murdered in New York Metropolis, allegedly by 26-year-old Luigi Mangione. Based on experiences, Mangione’s motivation for the killing was immediately associated to the standing of the medical insurance system in the US, although Mangione has not made any public statements relating to his motivation. Nonetheless, bullet instances discovered on the scene had the phrases “delay”, “deny”, and “depose” carved into them.
The phrases are strikingly just like the phrase “delay, deny, defend”, a phrase within the trade alluding to insurance coverage firms’ efforts to not pay out claims.
UnitedHealthcare reportedly has the best denial price of any insurance coverage supplier in the US.
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Addressing Thompson’s homicide, Strickland made it clear that he doesn’t condone killing and even confirmed empathy for the household’s loss. Nonetheless, ‘Tarzan’ was fast to level out that companies, just like the one Thompson ran, are equally chargeable for murdering folks each single day.
“Murder’s wrong in some regards, you know, but it’s so hard because, like, I would say that I’m an American free-market capitalist,” Strickland stated on the UFC 312 media day. “However when you will have these companies that personal the federal government, you realize, they usually simply—like, you don’t actually have recourse. Nobody provides a f*ck.
“And yeah, dude, it sucks that you died. You got a kid. You know, I’m sure the kid’s going to miss you. Real f*cking sad, but like… you know, real sad, dude. How many guys got denied, you know? How many guys? So, like, murder’s bad in some regards. And, you know, I wish you didn’t have to get killed for this conversation not to take place. But the fact of the matter is that corporations murder people every f*cking day. We don’t live in a free market. We live in a monopoly that is controlled by these corporations and it only took one man with a supressor and a dream.”
Mangione was captured at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania 5 days after the homicide. He has been charged with second-degree homicide and three counts of unlawful weapons possession. Mangione formally entered a plea of not responsible on December 23.
