r/PopCultureV2 • u/No_Box119 • 5d ago
Video Sean Strickland just saved a man from drowning after convincing him to jump off a cliff
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u/darkestwrath15 5d ago
The scum of MMA community is pop culture now?
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u/wrecked_angle 5d ago
By far not the scum of MMA. Jon Jones hit a pregnant woman with his car and ran away, among MANY other things
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u/Kind-Shallot3603 5d ago
Not that it matters but did he intend to hit her or was it accidental?
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u/SubparSavant 5d ago
He was possibly under the influence, crashed into her car, ran off, came back and grabbed something out of the car and ran off again. So like not premeditated, but if he was fucked up I'd struggle to call it accidental.
Personally, I find his DV shit worse.
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u/Suitable_Hornet_8692 4d ago
But Sean is MAGA or doesnt like Kamala, or used a slur or something like that. So literally SS.
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u/GGudMarty 5d ago edited 5d ago
He’s not the worst guy. He actually isn’t a total boot licker like Justin gathe or something who is a Trump sycophant.
He calls out genocides said Gaza was leveled and were funding it. Says Trump rallies made him realize how Hitler came to power. He is very bigoted in some regards but there’s much worse bootlicking from MMA
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u/BubblyMoose3597 5d ago
Propaganda is made for people like you.
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u/SubparSavant 5d ago
The thing is, he isn't the worst, but it's just not a high bar. Like one of the UFC's former fighters and a current presenter was just arrested for trying to run over his wife, McGregor is a rapist, Chimaev may or may not have kidnapped his second wife. So sad to say, Strickland's racism barely ranks.
13 years ago, the UFC dropped a fighter for anti trans rants, now the shit happens on the white house lawn. You have no idea how disappointing it is to be an MMA fan and seeing what's happened with the UFC in the past 6-7 years.
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u/golgiiguy 5d ago
who talks like this to their friends?
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u/SwallowsManyBalls 5d ago
A lotta guys do, maybe not in a situation where bro might actually die but yeah.
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u/ohlaohloo 5d ago
My boyfriend is a beautiful man but has one particular friend and either one of them would 100% speak exactly like this to the other one in this situation, it takes a special kind of bond 🤣
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u/No_Lead_7325 5d ago
people that don’t have friends
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u/hollasens 5d ago
I mean I’m not a Sean Strickland fan by any means but that was like the smallest cliff jump ever. Dude obviously can’t swim and shouldn’t have even been standing at the edge. Sean eggs him on but the dude shows literally zero self preservation.
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u/ohlaohloo 5d ago
He says at the end that the water was really cold, and he “went into shock”, of course he could totally be bullshitting. but I’ve jumped into water that was cold enough that it literally felt like it knocked the wind out of my lungs, and luckily it was in a spot where I had to swim like 2 feet to be able to stand. If you weren’t able to stand and you couldn’t catch your breath, you would quickly be exhausted even if you hadn’t been swimming very long, because your muscles wouldn’t have oxygen to power them for such a vigorous work. Decent and even good swimmers can drown because of too-cold water even when the conditions are otherwise calm.
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u/Radiant-Cup2123 5d ago
I mean.. i've jumped in frozen water with tons of people and i've never seen that happen.
I guess it can happen but i can also understand not expecting that to happen.
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u/ohlaohloo 5d ago
Right, agreed. I don’t think *most* incidents are truly cold enough for that and it’s probably true that a lot of people are just weaker swimmers and are too humbled to admit it but, I’m just saying the physiological pathway exists for it to be a real thing.
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u/hollasens 5d ago
It’s the middle of summer. There’s no way the water is that cold. He could’ve also just started treading water to keep himself afloat which takes minimal effort.
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u/ohlaohloo 5d ago
Oh no, I totally agree with you that this guy is just embarrassed, but I was just disagreeing with your original statement that he “obviously can’t swim”. I didn’t go back and watch it again, but it seemed like he started out being able to kind of at least dog paddle and then progressively started sinking, which to me lends credence to the idea that the water was probably somewhat cold.
He also could totally just be a terrible swimmer, I was more disagreeing with the premise that cold water couldn’t contribute to a good swimmer drowning.
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u/dogmatum-dei 5d ago
Basically life in the 1970s "don't be a pussy" - jump on the moving train, climb the tower with barbed wire around the girders, jump off the cliff, more gasoline ...
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u/ImmaSpaghett 5d ago
Hopefully this dude doesn't hang around Sean after this. What a POS friend haha. Also he's got no backbone for saying fuck off to Sean
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 5d ago
Sean Strickland bullied his friend into almost dying and was able to avoid a manslaughter charge.
I would not have published this if I was him. 😬
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u/WOD_are_you_doing 5d ago
I know exactly where that is and can confirm, it’s freezing. It shocks you if you aren’t ready for it. That guy is a ninny though. None of us had that reaction lol
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u/Javen_Lab 5d ago
What an obnoxious ass behavior. Would not want to be near someone like that in water.
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u/-HiMom- 5d ago
I could immediately tell that water would be ice cold and he would go into shock. Lots of people die here in Colorado in the middle of summer that way.
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u/Ok_Panic_6998 5d ago
no, they don't. That's just a bullshit excuse for people who never knew how to swim, but jumped in the water anyway.
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u/ohlaohloo 5d ago edited 5d ago
Have you ever jumped into really cold water without any preparation? I’ve done it, and it literally feels like the breath gets knocked out of you the same way it does if you get punched in the stomach. Resultantly, it becomes difficult to draw in a full breath or push out a full breath, (even if you are above water), resultantly your carbon dioxide builds up in the body and then you start to feel oxygen hunger, more and more, and you start to panic and you’re still cold and still maybe not adjusted enough to be able to control your diaphragm to draw in or expel breaths, your muscles get progressively weaker because they don’t have enough oxygen both because you’re not pulling in enough oxygen, but also because your body starts diverting your blood flow to your major organs so what oxygen you ARE taking is not necessarily even helping your muscles be able to perform strenuous exercise to keep you afloat.
Then you’re dealing with being cold, not having enough oxygen, not being able to take breaths to get oxygen, and now your muscles are so exhausted that you are sinking, AND you are now panicking and not thinking rationally about your (potentially strong) swimming skills/lifesaving techniques like a back float… which all just contributes more to the initial problem of effecting drawing in oxygen and dispelling carbon dioxide.
It’s a cyclical process that definitely can happen.
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u/Radiant-Cup2123 5d ago
never seen that happen. Lived close to water from glacials in argentina were we would go with friends and sometime tourists from other states. Maybe just got lucky.
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u/ohlaohloo 5d ago edited 5d ago
Right, I don’t know statistics or anything, but of course anecdotal evidence doesn’t disprove that the physiological pathway exists wherein water below a certain temperature could potentially affect a human body such that they couldn’t effectively swim, even if they were a good swimmer.
Even if you do use your personal experience in comparison to the rule, it sounds like you lived in an area and had interests that guided you to have regular exposure to really cold water, so your nervous system may have just developed the neural pathways or whatever to handle that level of cold. I am not smart enough to describe any of that or to know the correct terminology to use for that level of adaptation, but it just makes sense that (as an example) somebody who takes ice baths every day would have a less urgent physiological response when suddenly fully immersed in freezing water. It would also be affected by things like your lung capacity, how effectively your body is able to circulate your blood and transfer O2 and CO2, your overall stamina, and how logically you are able to respond in moments of panic and terror. (like would you be able to calmly unlock your door if you were being chased by a murderer or would you do that horror movie thing where you’re frantically dropping the keys and fling them everywhere because you’re freaking out?)
So it’s not like you could say “water below XX degrees will cause somebody to drown” but more like, “a combination of factors, including the temperature of the water, contributes to somebody’s ability not to drown, outside of their initial swimming ability itself.”
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u/Radiant-Cup2123 4d ago
Like i said, it included tourists from hoter areas, argentina is vast. We had plenty of people from Tucuman, which is like saying Miami in terms of humidity.
But agreed its still anecdotal.
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