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Sean Strickland posted a controversial theory on Conor McGregor’s UFC 329 injury. | : Getty/UFC
Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion Sean Strickland doesn’t think Conor McGregor was injured going into UFC 329.
McGregor’s return to action after five years against Max Holloway at UFC 329 on Saturday ended in anticlimactic fashion. “Notorious” blew his right knee with the first kick he attempted, leading to a stoppage loss hardly over a minute into the first round. Strickland has now weighed in on the Irishman’s injury.
Sean Strickland questions Conor McGregor’s knee injury after UFC 329 loss
While Strickland doesn’t want to jump to conclusions, he wonders whether McGregor’s injury could have been triggered by steroid use. He claims to have seen several steroid users’ bodies get fragile with time.
“Im not saying this is it..... but every homie I have that has done steroids for too long their bodies become so fragile,” Strickland wrote on X. “Im not saying thats why but.... it does weaken everything…”
There’s much ongoing speculation regarding whether McGregor was already injured going into the fight. Notably, the broadcast pointed out that he winced and slightly stumbled while removing his shoes before entering the Octagon. However, Strickland believes “Notorious” wouldn’t have started with a kick if he was already injured.
“Thats what im saying... if you're injured you're protecting your injury to make it through the fight,” he wrote in another post, before adding, “No. He wouldn't of sent a kick like that if he was hurt. I know from experience.”
McGregor (22-7) is the UFC’s most tested athlete of 2026 by far. However, the former two-division champion was off the UFC’s testing pool while he was recovering from his leg injury suffered in his trilogy loss against Dustin Poirier in 2021. There were also issues with McGregor’s drug testing protocol when he was expected to return in 2023-24. His drug testing reportedly played a major role in the UFC’s split with its former anti-doping partner, USADA, in 2024.
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