Overview
- Video from the Las Vegas gym shows Strickland introducing Rittenhouse to fighters and joking about the 23-year-old’s notoriety.
- Chris Curtis confronted Strickland in the clip, objecting to the invitation and calling it a disrespect to what he described as his home.
- Rittenhouse fatally shot two men and wounded another during 2020 protests in Kenosha and was acquitted in 2021 after a jury accepted his self-defense claim.
- After the encounter, Strickland wrote on X that he viewed Rittenhouse as a “dorky white kid,” said he did not expect Curtis to care, and criticized political propaganda.
- The video was shared by former fighter Jake Shields, whom the Anti-Defamation League has labeled an antisemitic conspiracy theorist; no UFC disciplinary action was reported, and Strickland remains booked for a Feb. 21 fight.