Sean Strickland pulled out his phone on an Edmonton street this week, aimed it at a man lying still behind a fence, and told his followers he was “fairly confident that man is dead.” He added, in the same clip, “I gotta get out of here.”
The clip, posted on his X account on October 14, was captioned, “Pretty confident this man is dead or least freshly assaulted from the Crack head mumbling.” It was never clear whether the person was dead, unconscious or asleep, and Strickland did not say he had called anyone.
Earlier the same day, the American fighter had already picked a side. In a widely shared post, he wrote: “Well update on Edmonton….. Left downtown and yep this place is a trash can. Zombies everywhere… Its not American I might have to kill a crack head bad but its definitely a open drug market with zero police.”
No confirmation of any death
Nothing in Strickland’s own posts, or in the Canadian coverage that followed, points to a police report tied to the video. Daily Hive Edmonton framed the whole sequence as Strickland’s personal verdict on the city rather than a verified incident, noting that the fighter had briefly defended Edmonton the day before and then reversed course after a walk downtown.
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Strickland’s online persona is built on this kind of outburst. He has repeatedly drawn condemnation for homophobic language and racial slurs over the course of his career, and his social feed routinely veers into drug use, policing and American culture-war territory far removed from the cage.
In town for the Rogers Place card
Strickland is in Alberta for UFC Fight Night at Rogers Place, scheduled for Saturday, October 17. He is not fighting on the card; local coverage says he is in town to work the corner for another fighter.
The headliner is a welterweight bout between American contender Joaquin Buckley and Canadian Mike Malott, with Edmonton heavyweight Tanner Boser and Calgary’s Melissa Croden also on the 13-fight slate.
The champion also hinted at a side errand in Alberta. The day before his Edmonton posts, MMA Sucka reported, he responded to news of a “Rise of Alberta” independence event by writing, “Let’s goooo!! Should be done with the UFC by 4. I’m going to try to make this!”
Main-card action at Rogers Place begins at 8pm ET on Saturday.
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