UFC middleweight contender Sean Strickland revealed that Megan Fox sent him a direct message, but it wasn't the dream experience he thought it would be.
While speaking with Eric Nicksick on the “Versus Us” podcast on Aug. 20, the former 185-pound champion clarified that Fox had contacted him to slam him for making fun of her kids and her boyfriend, Machine Gun Kelly. “Megan Fox sent me a direct message,” Strickland said. “It wasn't a direct message like that. I'm a Megan fan. How many times did I jerk off to you to Transformers as a kid? All day,” he joked. “Everybody watching this has jerk off to Megan Fox at least once.”
Strickland described an interaction he once had with a woman of his dreams, and admitted it wasn't exactly sexy.
“So she contacted me and I said, 'I'm famous,'” Strickland said. Then he realized she wasn't impressed with him at all.
“And the messages were actually kind of funny. It was more like, 'Hey, my kids are being bullied and I'm being bullied online because you said they're transgender,' and then, 'They're not transgender, they just want to dress like rock stars,'” he said.
“And I said, 'Sorry, Megan. I'm going to keep quiet about it.' But I said, 'Megan, you're still drinking blood and doing all sorts of weird stuff,'” Strickland joked.
NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 27: Megan Fox attends the premiere of the film 'Machine Gun Kelly's Life in Pink' in New York City on June 27, 2022. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
He acknowledged he could have approached it differently, but the moment of reflection was short-lived as the mixed martial artist resumed his verbal attack.
“I know I shouldn't make fun of you little shit, but MGK is the real deal, you motherfucker,” he said on the podcast.
And he explained why he got into an infamous altercation with Machine Gun Kelly at a Power Slap event in Las Vegas in January.
LAS VEGAS, NV – JUNE 30: In this UFC handout, Sean Strickland poses on the scale during the UFC Fight Night weigh-ins at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 30, 2023. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) Getty Images
Strickland then recounted how an altercation occurred between him and the Cleveland rapper-turned-singer at a Power Slap event in Las Vegas.
“All these slap fights are just influencer self-pleasure,” Strickland said.
He then explained what his friend Dingo had said.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MAY 27: (Editorial Only) (L) Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly attend the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The Awards aired live on FOX on May 27, 2021. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images via iHeartMedia)
“So Dingo said, 'Hey, I want you to meet this guy,' and this guy was in this vampire trench coat, he had a purse, he had nail polish, and he said, Dingo, you know me, dude. Why would you do this? Why would you trap me?” he recalled. (Related article: Transgender kids are the new fashion accessories for Hollywood's craziest moms)
Strickland continued, “And I just looked at him… trying to understand, and I think I said, 'What the heck? A f**king gay vampire?'”
The conversation with Fox was clearly not what he had expected.
