Senior ministers condemn fighter’s behaviour and comments on women in Australia but argue ‘you can’t taint a whole sport because of one or two people’
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A UFC fighter who bragged about punching a fan at Bondi, made sexist comments and ranted about potential “dirty liberals” in Sydney has been condemned by New South Wales government ministers even as they defended spending $16m to bring the controversial sport to the state.
Sean Strickland claimed he punched the man in the stomach on Monday after he “insulted” him ahead of his pay-per-view fight against middleweight champion Israel Adesanya on Sunday.
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