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#325 Sean Strickland - The Most Controversial Fighter in the UFC Opens Up Like Never Before
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Marriage, Family, Monkeypox, and Meeting the Wealthy In-Laws
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Strickland met his wife — two degrees, wealthy Upstate New York family, grandfather a WWII POW at the Battle of the Bulge — on Tinder seven years ago while trying to get laid, with a profile picture of himself riding a horse. The relationship required a prenup. But the defining story is the first meeting with her parents: Strickland arrived with a 103-degree monkeypox fever (contracted from his friend and training partner Chris Curtis), sat down with her father, and while trying to explain his upbringing began crying as he described his brother strapping knives to his pants in elementary school to kill their father. Her father's eventual verdict on the marriage, delivered post-wedding over breakfast: 'I didn't think you'd be my son-in-law, but here we are.' Then he walked away.
Strickland, fighting to stay composed, describes the memory that wrecks him most: his brother in elementary school strapping knives to his pants with the explicit plan to sit next to their father and stab him to death. He was telling this story, mid-monkeypox fever, to his future in-laws the first time he met them — and broke down crying.
