Beef squashed!
Khalil Rountree Jr. competes in his first Final Preventing Championship (UFC) foremost at UFC 307 this weekend (Sat., Oct. 5, 2024) as he tries to slay Gentle Heavyweight champion Alex Pereira from inside Delta Middle in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah.
Pereira introduced in former UFC Middleweight champion Sean Strickland for his coaching camp to assist put together for Rountree Jr. At UFC 307 media day (watch right here), Rountree Jr. was requested about Pereira’s choice to usher in somebody he had previous beef with, and he revealed that Strickland truly apologized for his or her issues previously.
“Yeah. I imply, I noticed it, and I used to be, like, cool,” Rountree Jr. informed the media. “Actually, the final interplay that I had with Sean Strickland was on the UFC P.I. It was actually the day after Dan Ige stepped in for that struggle on like three hours, 4 hours discover, or one thing like that… Out of the blue, Sean Strickland got here as much as me. He approached me, and he simply mentioned, like, ‘Khalil, I apologize, I’m a dumbass. I truly form of such as you. I feel you’re liberal, however, , however general, I such as you, or I respect you,’ one thing alongside these traces.
“So what I took it as is, virtually like squashing no matter beef, what I imply, or simply saying, like, ‘Look dude, I’m who I’m. I’m gonna say what I’m gonna say, however I’m coming right here to personally shake your hand, inform you I feel you’re a liberal, however , to a sure stage, I respect you.’ You already know what I imply? It was like that. So I took it as like, okay, you’re coming right here to form of make the peace. I left it at that. So now, something shifting ahead, like something that’s mentioned, or no matter, I received that type of my reminiscence financial institution, so I do know that there’s actually no challenge. It’s actually simply discuss, and I received’t concern myself with it,” Rountree Jr concluded.
Strickland utterly snapped on Rountree Jr. in 2022 after “Struggle Horse” cried throughout his post-fight interview and has insulted him for the previous two years at any time when given an opportunity.
Then again, Rountree utterly no-sold the meat and ignored him, even appearing like he didn’t know who he was.
Fortunately, this uncomfortable beef is over for now (till Strickland snaps once more).
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