UFC middleweight contender Sean Strickland actually likes to spar, however solely succesful opponents.
‘Tarzan’ has been out of motion since his foremost occasion towards Nassourdine Imavov in January. In that outing, Strickland scored a unanimous resolution win over ‘Russian Sniper’. That victory snapped a two-fight dropping streak for the contender, having beforehand misplaced to Alex Pereira and Jared Cannonier.
Nonetheless, the middleweight contender is now slated to return in July towards Abusupiyan Magomedov. In preparation for his return, there’s little question that Strickland is coaching and doing a number of onerous sparring. The middleweight is infamous for having onerous sparring classes, which is probably going why he virtually sparred with Mike Jackson.
‘The Reality’ was launched from the UFC in January, ending a memorable stint with the corporate. Jackson confronted the likes of Mickey Gall and CM Punk in his promotional run. Nonetheless, it was his high-profile incident with Jake Shields on the UFC PI final yr that generated many headlines.
Nonetheless, Sean Strickland reportedly reached out to the welterweight to spar, as he said on his podcast. Nonetheless, in response to the middleweight contender, he referred to as off the session after seeing Jackson’s skilled document.
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(by way of Cooper Neil/Zuffa LLC)
“There’s a number of UFC fighters who I believe [anyone] may f*ck up,” Sean Strickland said within the dialog alongside Chris Curtis. “There are some UFC fighters that ought to not f*cking be within the UFC. They arrive into the f*cking fitness center, and I’m like, ‘How the f*ck are you right here?’ Like, that one man, the racist one, your buddy, the black man? He hates Jake Shields?”
He continued, “Mike Jackson! So joke about Mike Jackson, anytime I see someone huge, small, white, purple, brown, I’m like ‘Let’s f*cking struggle’. I see him on the PI, and I’m like ‘Hey, we should always scrap dude, you’re a welterweight, I used to be a welterweight and I’m at middleweight. Let’s see how huge that d*ck is,’ proper? So, I’m about to go away to go to spar him and I google his document, and I simply name him like ‘Dude, I don’t have the self-control dude, this isn’t a good suggestion’.
“What do I do? I am going there, and it could be like f*cking up a toddler. It will be like combating a girl, I’ve no want to do this.”
What do you make of those feedback from Sean Strickland? Are you excited for his subsequent struggle?
