No one — genuinely, no one — could’ve foreseen this. In many ways, Sean Strickland was 2023. The real-life manifestation of the omnipresent Twitter troll. The inevitable backlash to western cancel culture given flesh. The self-proclaimed former Neo-Nazi who drops homophobic slurs with impunity and rallies against women’s place in the workforce. In an era that celebrates nastiness at seemingly every turn, the UFC middleweight champion rose to be a perfectly imperfect avatar of the past 12 months in MMA (and honestly, the world), a character both profane yet authentic, impossibly offensive yet overwhelmingly beloved, often within the very same...