"I was so angry I actually went through this weird neo-Nazi, white supremacist phase when I was younger and I got kicked out of school for hate crimes," Strickland continued. Strickland pins his, now historic, neo-Nazi feelings on the influence of his grandfather, with the MMA fighter freely admitting that he regrets his actions in the past in this regard. "Like when I went out and got arrested, I just wanted to, there was something in me that knew if I could just kill a human being, it would make me feel good for a short time, it's one of those things where, like, more people think like that and I'm just the one that says it." "I wanted to my entire life, that's a big reason why I didn't have a social life.
"You don't understand me, I like it, I like it when I leave the house with the potential thought that maybe I could kill someone," Strickland explained in an interview with The MMA Hour. In a rather unusual admission for a figure in the public eye, Strickland doesn't believe his job is at any risk, despite these homicidal admissions.
The UFC face a potentially difficult task in managing the views of their fighter, Sean Strickland, with the former neo-Nazi openly admitting that he likes the feeling of thinking he might kill someone whenever he leaves his house.