Sean Strickland is the UFC middleweight champion for the second time in his profession after defeating Khamzat Chimaev in the principle occasion of UFC 328.
For the longest time main as much as the bout, Sean Strickland was promoting the rivalry between himself and Chimaev as arduous as he presumably may. It obtained to the purpose the place folks felt as if there might be a full-on riot, however simply earlier than the combat began, the 2 had been laughing with each other, touched gloves twice, and made it clear that this was all a little bit of a present.
Sean Strickland says controversial issues each in and out of doors of combat week, however the humbleness he confirmed by apologizing for a few of his feedback proves that maybe that is way more of an act than followers notice. He’s an clever man deep down, and he even mentioned within the interview we’re about to reference that he enjoys the ‘WWE’ fashion of selling.
Within the following quote, you’ll be able to hear Sean Strickland be susceptible in a method that we haven’t actually seen earlier than.
Sean Strickland will get humble
“Let me let you know, each combat I’ve ever had, 30-40 minutes earlier than the combat I believe I’m gonna lose, each combat. I simply go in there and combat. Yeah, (I’m being critical), I’ve by no means thought I used to be gonna win a combat.
“You’ve simply obtained to be the person you wanna be, simply since you suppose, like, how do you show you’re sufficient? You do it. I’ve by no means thought I’d ever win a combat.”
“All of us type of have this voice in our head like, you don’t suppose there’s a voice in my head that sees a giant offended Chechen with a beard, you see him simply run by way of everyone within the division. You don’t suppose I’ve a voice in my head saying, ‘oh s—, oh s—‘, all of us have that voice.
“You simply sack the f— up and be the person you need to be.”
Quotes through Bloody Elbow
Who is aware of, perhaps we’ll get extra of the identical in his subsequent combat, or perhaps Sean might be turning a nook.
