Sean Strickland responds to his coach's | MMA News
Former middleweight titleholder Sean Strickland suffered a one-sided resolution loss to champion Dricus Du Plessis within the UFC 312 foremost occasion this previous weekend. His efficiency drew criticism from followers, fighters, and even his own coach.
Stickland’s coach, Eric Nicksick, look on “The Ariel Helwani Show.” on Tuesday and known as Strickland’s UFC 312 efficiency ‘uninspiring.’ Clearly pissed off, Nicksick mentioned Strickland wants to take into consideration what he needs to do within the sport transferring ahead.
“I think he needs to evaluate what he wants to do in this sport,” said Nicksick. “If it’s just to make money, then that’s great. Let us know. I want to coach world champions, so my motivations are different. So I think that just to kind of show up and do that, and not really back it up, to me was just kind of uninspiring.”
In his video response to Nicksick’s feedback, Strickland revealed that the coaching camp main up to the battle was much less than supreme.
“I like Eric. He’s a friend of mind and he’s going to continue to be a friend of mine. Will he probably be in my corner? Probably not,” Strickland mentioned. “We have so many great guys at Xtreme [Couture]: Nate [Pettit], Ray Sefo. We have so many savages that I would love to corner me.
“That total battle camp was simply a battle. Like, it was a f*cking battle. And guys, all of us have our excuses as to why we did not win, or why we received and should not have received. We all have excuses and so they do not f*cking matter,” Strickland continued.
“The solely cause why I’m making this video is as a result of Eric had to go do a f*cking podcast and change into an influencer, so now I’ve bought to like, alright, form of clarify myself.
“Opportunity. Not just with fighting. Opportunity never comes when it’s supposed to. It doesn’t matter what the circumstance is, what the situation is. You will never wake up and say, ‘You know what? Today is the perfect day for opportunity.’ It will come at the worst f*cking time. It will come at the worst time. And how many times it comes and you raise your hand and you say, ‘You know what? I’m f*cking ready,’ a lot of times you fail. A lot of the times you fail. But a lot of times you don’t fail, and it’s like you must say yes.”
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Strickland disclosed a number of issues that occurred during battle camp and main up to the battle that served as distractions, however took nothing away from Du Plessis’ dominating win.
“This is not an excuse, but that entire camp was just a struggle of I’m good. I’m good, knowing you’re not good,” Strickland mentioned. “I was in Columbia eight weeks out, seven weeks out getting stem cells on a broken bone. Again, bone healed fine. Not an excuse. It just kind of weighs in the back of your head.”
“All camp this is just in the back of your head and you keep telling yourself, ‘I’m f*cking good.’ I think this is what all men do. All men do this. Like, you look in the mirror and even though you know you’re not good you go, ‘I’m good, dude. You’re a f*cking man. You sack up.’ But all camp, dude, whether it be the staph infection, the broken arm, the having to get a Visa that didn’t get approved until the week, not bering able to get cornermen out there. This entire camp was like a struggle of I’m not good but me looking in the mirror and saying, ‘sack up.’
“Nothing away from Dricus. He got here there and fought his ass off, f*cking broke my nostril. Hats off. You fought like a f*cking man,” continued Strickland.
“I do not battle to put belts on the wall. I do not f*cking battle as a result of Eric needs to go do a fancy podcast. That’s not why I battle. Before preventing, you guys, I imply I had the bottom self-worth, f*cking could not even take a look at myself within the mirror. I did not even know what dignity was after I first began preventing. And form of by way of preventing I’ve discovered a lot. I’ve met so many f*cking wonderful people. Through the UFC and preventing and battle followers, you guys have modified my f*cking life. Changed my f*cking life. You’ve made me grow a lot as a particular person within the ring and out of the ring. That’s why I battle. I f*cking adore it. I’ve bought a lot of fights left on my contract. I really like preventing.
“I’m going back in there gym. I’m working my ass off and I’m starting from f*cking square one. And that’s kind of how life is. You always get a step back where you’re like, ‘alright, I’ve got to start over again.’ And you have a choice. You either sack up and you do it or you f*cking quit. I’m going to sack up and do it.”
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