{"id":837845,"date":"2025-03-30T16:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T21:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/sean-strickland-addresses-rumor-he-has-staph-infection-ahead-of-dricus-du-plessis-rematch-at-ufc-312\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T16:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T21:13:32","slug":"sean-strickland-addresses-rumor-he-has-staph-infection-ahead-of-dricus-du-plessis-rematch-at-ufc-312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/sean-strickland-addresses-rumor-he-has-staph-infection-ahead-of-dricus-du-plessis-rematch-at-ufc-312\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland addresses rumor he has staph infection ahead of Dricus du Plessis rematch at UFC 312"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article id=\"post-173631\">\n<p><strong>Sean Strickland has denied a potentially fight-ending rumor about his health ahead of UFC 312 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former middleweight champion will try to win back his belt back from <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/dricus-du-plessis\/\">Dricus du Plessis<\/a> this weekend. <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2024\/01\/21\/ufc-297-sean-strickland-vs-du-plessis\/\">DDP\u2019 dethroned the wacky American by split decision<\/a> when they first fought at UFC 297 in January 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Just two days out from <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/ufc-312\/\">UFC 312<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/sean-strickland\/\">Sean Strickland<\/a>\u2018s physical well-being has been questioned by his rival. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><svg width=\"20\" height=\"20\"><use href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/#list-arrow-svg\" \/><\/svg><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/01\/28\/ufc-312-preview-start-time-full-fight-card-how-to-watch-live-stream-ppv-price\/\">UFC 312 preview: Start time, full fight card, how to watch, live stream &#038; PPV price<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2197921265-1024x760.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC\" ><\/p>\n<\/div><figcaption title=\"SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 06: (L-R) Opponents Dricus Du Plessis of South Africa and Sean Strickland face off during the UFC 312 press conference at Qudos Bank Arena on February 06, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC)\">Photo by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Sean Strickland insists he doesn\u2019t have a staph infection <\/h2>\n<p>Du Plessis and Strickland met in Sydney, Australia for a pre-fight press conference on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The champion made things interesting a few hours prior by making a bold claim about his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>A new picture of Strickland posing shirtless in his UFC fight gear has been circulating online ever since. <\/p>\n<p>It shows the 33-year-old with a blemish on his left arm, which du Plessis believes is a staph infection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat? He grew taller and added staph infection to his arsenal. Oh s\u2014,\u201d he captioned his post. <\/p>\n<p>Strickland addressed the rumor about him having a staph infection at the UFC 312 press conference. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen you motherf\u2014\u2014, I\u2019m immune to staph,\u201d Strickland shouted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see this f\u2014\u2014 mustache? I give staph, I don\u2019t f\u2014\u2014 get staph<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalm the f\u2014 down. I don\u2019t get sick. I don\u2019t get f\u2014\u2014 injured and I don\u2019t get f\u2014\u2014 staph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo relax. I\u2019m going to be out there on Sunday and I\u2019m going to come out f\u2014\u2014 hard and strong. The hardest and strongest you\u2019ve ever f\u2014\u2014 seen. To the f\u2014\u2014 death, Dutchman!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UFC 312 Press Conference (Full)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q3F9bpy2wPA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Dricus du Plessis felt invincible during first Sean Strickland fight<\/h2>\n<p>Du Plessis had some questions to answer heading into his first fight with Strickland last year. <\/p>\n<p>In 24 pro fights, he has only ever gone to the scorecards on two occasions, when he beat Strickland and when he earned his third UFC win over Brad Tavares.<\/p>\n<p>The expectation heading into UFC 297 was that he would start fast with Strickland having the advantage later on in the fight but \u2018Stillknocks\u2019 anticipated this and tried to flip it on its head by staying composed for the first few rounds.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"'NO MAN ALIVE CAN BEAT ME' Dricus Du Plessis on Strickland Rematch, Adesanya Loss &#038; Jones v Aspinall\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jZia0fytTRo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In a recent interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/02\/05\/i-felt-invincible-dricus-du-plessis-reflects-on-what-he-learned-about-himself-in-first-sean-strickland-fight\/\">du Plessis revealed what he learned about himself<\/a> from fighting Strickland at UFC 297. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the fourth round came around, this is the first time in my whole career I go to a fourth round,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like I was on a cloud, I felt invincible. I felt fresher than I did before the fight started. I thought, now we can fight and that fourth round was by far my best round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to prove to the world, to myself, that I can go five rounds and go as hard as I can for five rounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Jordan Ellis <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/02\/06\/sean-strickland-addresses-rumor-he-has-staph-infection-ahead-of-dricus-du-plessis-rematch-at-ufc-312\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Strickland has denied a potentially fight-ending rumor about his health ahead of UFC 312 The former middleweight champion will try to win back his belt back from Dricus du Plessis this weekend. \u2018DDP\u2019 dethroned the wacky American by split decision when they first fought at UFC 297 in January 2024. Just two days out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":837846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[513,94062],"tags":[9528,133219],"class_list":{"0":"post-837845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-addresses","8":"category-strickland","9":"tag-addresses","10":"tag-strickland"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}