UFC Corridor of Famer Michael Bisping has made a case for Sean Strickland to get the following shot at middleweight champion Israel Adesanya.
Strickland (27-5 MMA, 14-5 UFC) stopped Abus Magomedov (25-5-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) by second-round TKO this previous Saturday within the UFC on ESPN 47 headliner. Strickland referred to as for a title shot towards Adesanya, who awaits his subsequent challenger for the UFC 293 card in September in Sydney.
A pivotal middleweight conflict between former champion Robert Whittaker and rising contender Dricus Du Plessis takes place Saturday at UFC 290. If Whittaker beats Du Plessis, Bisping doesn’t thoughts seeing Strickland get the following title shot.
“Sean Strickland received the job accomplished, and I’m telling you, what a efficiency,” Bisping stated on his YouTube channel. “The person’s a personality, he’s nice on the microphone, he loves America, and other people love him for that, as nicely. After all he’s a giant patriot and rightly so. Sensational efficiency. He needs to battle. He calls him the Chinese language champion. I don’t know why he does that, (however) he needs to battle Israel Adesanya.
“He feels that Israel Adesanya has fought everybody. After all, he’s fought Robert Whittaker twice, and the winner of Dricus (Du Plessis) vs. Robert goes to get the following title battle. He stated there’s no means that Dricus wins, and he additionally stated individuals don’t wish to see Whittaker battle him once more. I’ll be sincere, after that one final night time (win over Magomedov), I wouldn’t thoughts seeing it. And, after all, the trash speak within the lead-up to the battle can be phenomenal.”
Strickland and Adesanya went at it in the course of the UFC 276 press convention, and Strickland has been poking enjoyable at “The Lasy Stylebender” ever since. Strickland now has gained two straight over Nassourdine Imavov and Magomedov.
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