American fighter Sean Strickland continues to talk about his fantasies of killing somebody

• Sean Strickland continues to talk about fantasies he has of killing someone.
• The American UFC fighter said he'll try to rewire his brain once he has finished his MMA career.

American fighter Sean Strickland continues to talk about his fantasies of killing someone.

It has become a disturbing trend for the UFC middleweight as it follows a statement he made earlier in the year in which he said he wanted to "kill somebody" in a fight.

That was July when he spoke to the media shortly after a solid win over ranked contender Uriah Hall in Las Vegas.

He told the media that he's probably the "last one" the UFC would want as a champion as it would make him "super happy" to end a person's life.

He said: "I would own that shit, too. I don't know if it would make me liable, I might have to say, 'I'm sorry,' if the cops came, but I would own that shit. Own it. Be a psychopath, it's fucking fun!"

Two months later, he elaborated on this when speaking on MMA Fighting's "MMA Hour."

He said he has wanted to kill someone his "entire life" and "that's a big reason why I didn't have a social life."

Strickland continued: "Like, when I went out and got arrested, I just wanted to. There was just something in me that knew that if I could just kill a human being, it would make me feel good for a short time."

Strickland claimed that other people feel similar but he's different as he's the one who admits to those feelings.

It is what led to the start of his journey in mixed martial arts, as training helped contain those fantasies.

"I'd just go train, I'd fight, go train, I'd fight, go train, I'd fight. But if it wasn't for that, I fantasize about it all the time."

Strickland wants to rewire his brain but still enjoys these thoughts

He said that he's had confrontations in public before and if people instigated, he'd start feeling happy as he'd "finally get to fucking kill somebody and it's gonna be justified."

Strickland later continued: "There are certain times in my life when I really tried to manipulate the situation to make it where I can kill somebody, but it just hasn't fucking panned out."

He said he doesn't socialize much any more because of that, and that he claims he is "nice" and "polite" when he meets people.

"If you've ever seen me meet somebody, I'm so nice, I'm polite," Strickland said, adding: "You don't understand me … I like when I leave the house with the potential thought that maybe I could kill someone. I like it."

Strickland is on a five-fight win streak after coming unstuck to a spinning wheel kick and punches in a first-round loss to Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos in 2018.

He is the No.7-ranked contender in the 185-pound division, and is yet to book a new opponent after outpointing Hall earlier in the summer.

At 30 years old, Strickland will likely be in the fight game but some time yet but he said after he is done with the sport he will focus on "rewiring" his brain and "finding more value in human life."

"But right now I fucking enjoy it, you know? I fucking like it."